Can Gen Z kids answer basic questions?

I have been watching man-on-the-street interviews of Gen Z teenagers up to 22 years old or so.

There hundreds of You Tube videos. They are both funny and sad at the same time.

It shows that our education system is seriously flawed, and these same people will be running
things in the near future. Obviously this is NOT all Gen Z kids, but I believe it is too big of a
percentage.

You have to watch it to believe it. It is either true, or they found hundreds of VERY talented
actors, but it's easy to tell how perplexed they are by these basic questions, this one for
example. "How many moons does the earth have"

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Stillwaiting · M

My wife is a teacher .. the stories she tells of inability of kids that age and younger to think, to learn basic stuff .. is scary as hell. A dysfunctional tidal wave is coming.

NativePortlander1970

@Stillwaiting My older step sister is a retired public school that taught art and subbed for other subjects on the jr high level from 1985 until 2020, she said the last ten of her years were the worst, from their blatant disrespect, and violent behaviors, she couldn't take it any more, her last year alone she was assaulted by students one way or another at least two to three times a year. She taught in a middle of nowhere small town north central iowa farming community of less than 1,000 population.

DogMan · 61-69, M

@NativePortlander1970 God Bless her. I grew up in that area, Waterloo to be exact. I'm probably
close to her age, I graduated in 1977.

DogMan · 61-69, M

@Stillwaiting Thank you, that is the best perspective. I haven't had kids in school since the
80's But what you and Portlander said, reinforces the beliefs I had.

NativePortlander1970

@DogMan Back in the late 90's I lived two blocks from the Grout Museum, on 2nd St South.

NativePortlander1970

@DogMan She graduated hs in 1979 in Nashua, took a couple of years off then graduated in Education at Upper Iowa in Fayette, first taught in Klemme, then Rockwell near Mason City.

DogMan · 61-69, M

@NativePortlander1970 I donated my grandpas WW1 uniform to the War museum.
I think its part of the Grout Museum, I also gave them some WWII letters from
my dad after he passed away. I have two scrap books. My Grandmother saved every
letter he wrote during WWII He was a front line infantry rifleman in Italy 88th Inf.
My Grandfather was in France in WWI

NativePortlander1970

@DogMan Your Dad went through a lot of hell, my Grandfather enlisted in the Army Air Corp the day after he turned 18 on January 2, 1944, he was in training in Biloxi, Mississippi, to become a bomber mechanic. He was on a transport to Japan in August 1945 when Fat Man and Little Boy were dropped.

DogMan · 61-69, M

@NativePortlander1970 Wow! that's great. My dad tried to join the Army Air Corp right after
pearl harbor, but they refused him because he was colorblind. So while he was trying
to figure out what to do, he got drafted into the 88th Infantry. You are right, he did go
through hell. He was a normal guy during his waking hours, but had nightmares off
and on throughout his life, even while in hospice. I wrote about his time before and during the Italian campaign after a lot of research into his unit. I also coerced stories out of him over the years. After I went into the Military, he felt I should know some things.

I have given copies of it to friends and family. The Germans called his unit
The Blue Devils. They were one of the only Divisions that never lost a battle.

Sorry, I could go on and on. Very interesting stuff.

NativePortlander1970

@DogMan Oh wow, have you thought about writing a book about them with the permission from the others or their survivors? It would be a major bestseller with the military history buffs.