Subj : young people
To   : Nightfox
From : Arelor
Date : Sun Oct 26 2025 12:01:53

  Re: young people
  By: Nightfox to MRO on Fri Oct 24 2025 07:40 pm

 > I've heard the US school system isn't great these days.  I've heard they've
 > actually lowered standards so that they can claim more students are
 > graduating. When I was growing up, I often heard about how students in the
 > US were behind students in other countries, particularly in things like math
 > & scence & such. Rather than improving that, it seems like the school system
 > is making it worse.

It is easy to blame the school system, but I think issues like this start at home.

When I was young people always took the easy path for everything because their families weren't expecting anything from them. As a result teachers stopped giving a damn because why would they care more than parents?

The cult to mediocrity is not something that was taught at school. It fermented in school, but school was the pot, not the cause. At some point kids internalized that things were supposed to be easy and effortless, therefore the guy wanting to do anything remotely interesting or challenging was automatically tagged as an outsider.

Fast forward a couple of decades, those kids who learnt that being good at things was a social handicap are the workforce.

Enjoy the countries you have created.


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