Obligatory Sold a Story podcast link.

I can’t help but feel that a lot of this is deliberate, the end result of decades of dismantling the public education system to further divide kids into the upper class in private schools, religious fundamentalists in home schooling, and everyone else abandoned to keep the population uneducated and in worse economic precarity.

Somebody please tell me that the kids are alright yea

  • Frogmanfromlake [none/use name]@hexbear.net
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    1 year ago

    I remember when I started my apprenticeship as a mechanic and being told the younger generation was going to be so much more tech savvy. Fast forward to now and they’re somehow worse than people at my age were with pc’s. Even their skills with tablets and smartphones aren’t that much better.

    Only the gamers really know how to operate all three.