In English class, my ninth graders were making fun of how skilled they were on their electronics hinting that they wouldn’t need this literature, spelling grammar, etc.
my response was, I knew guys, my father, who invented computers, and they learned all this literature, grammar, spelling when they were their age.
They need to know that their texting skills are not impressive, it’s motivating
We exalt them, ‘oh Brandon is so great he is a whiz at the computer’
WEll, yeah, he’s not afraid of breaking it, he is in te learning years of his life and can figure out the language and he doesn’t have a brainload of things to think about to manage to run the house.
WE need to stop being so impressed with them
I cannot get my lawn cut. I’m not doing it. Not one adolescent in my neighborhood will come over and cut my lawn. I hire a firm to do it.
As long as they can live with their parents they can probably do quite well on their low paying low skilled jobs.
I see young (American white and black) adults with their front desk jobs at the $10 gym, they have to learn how to process credit card info and fill out forms on a computer. Otherwise they are useless.
Meanwhile the Indian and Korean kids are going to college.