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I would like to believe this, but as someone with pretty privileged kids, it's not this. It's the phones.
by sfblah 4y ago
I would like to believe this, but as someone with pretty privileged kids, it's not this. It's the phones.
- jstarfish 4y agoAgreed. They're learning precalculus in middle/high school these days, a subject I had no exposure to until late college (and which I had to cheat my way through). I can't help them with much of their homework anymore. School is way more challenging than it used to be. But then they go home and learn mindless consumerism, social engineering and conspiracy theory from their phones. The kids are better-educated than myself, but they exhibit a general lack of creativity. Everything is "role playing" other people's behavior or fanfiction expanding other people's work; even their sense of humor is meme-based and monosyllabic. Where their behavior turns malicious/criminal, they're usually getting their inspiration from some counter-culture influencer encouraging it. A test that measures ability to think outside the box is showing poor results with this generation? Color me shocked!
- SoftTalker 4y agoI had precalculus in 11th grade, and calculus 1 in 12th grade. This was in the early 1980s. We had calculators, but they were simple TI-30[1] type. One line digital display, no graphics. All the problem sets (and graphs) were done on paper. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TI-30 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TI-30