How many remembered studying cursive writing in school? How many remembered doing the long form in math to show your works and not allowed to used a calculator?

Back when I was in school,we had to learn cursive writing. The last 20 some years, students are not taught cursive writing for some reason. The reason for not teaching cursive is because it had become outdated. Typing is a current skill that students need. One educator said, “there is only so much time in the school day. Most documents are signed online now, which even further makes the point that new skills are necessary for our students to be productive in this century.”

The bad thing about all that, not everyone are computer savvy. There are still going to be people working these low blue-collared jobs, where they have to write in cursive. If they’re not taught that, how can they do it?

When I was in high school starting at the seventh grade, we were told that calculators are not allowed in math class. We had to show our works by doing the long form to solve a math problem. In the 1970’s with a fair amount of debate about their effect on learning, calculators slowly began to enter the classroom. It wasn’t until 1986 that Connecticut became the first state to require calculator to allow students to solve more complex problems. So you see, it was after I graduated from high school that calculators were allowed in math class. I even remembered not being allowed to used a calculator in college math class.

In this blog, I will be discussing the book, “The Dumbest Generation Grows Up from Stupefied Youth to Dangerous Adults” by Mark Bauerlein. It seems that the younger generations lack common sense. As my dad would say, “You can be book smart but not street smart.” Back in 2008, Mark Bauerlein was a voice crying in the wilderness. As experts greeted the new generation of digital natives with extravagant hopes for their high tech future, he pegged them as the “Dumbest Generation.” Today, their future doesn’t look so bright, and their present is pretty grim. Those in their 20’s, who spent their childhoods staring into a screen are lonely and purposeless, unfulfilled at work and home. Many of them are even suicidal. Lacking skills, knowledge, religion, and cultural frame of reference.

Millennials are anxiously looking for something to fill the void. Their mentors have failed them. Unfortunately, they have turned to politics plug the hole in their souls. Knowing nothing about history, they are convinced that it is merely a catalogue of oppression, inequality,and hatred. They even wondered has the human race not ended all this injustice before now?

The Millennials became the first Americans to come of age in the digital age, the cutting edge of the tech revolution. They are ready to think globally and renounce prejudice and fashion their profiles to achieve, follow their passions and be all that they can be-but ending up behind the Starbucks counter or doing contract work, living with their parents or in a house with 4 friends, nonetheless lonely and mistrustful, with no thoughts of marriage and children, no weekly church attendance or civic memberships, more than half of them convinced that their country is racist and sexist.

After all, if Millennials were individuals who could think and process information fundamentally differently from their predecessors, their minds conditioned to operate in alternative ways by digital immersion in their developing years, then the opinions of Boomers and Generation Xers of what the kids proceeded to do wasn’t altogether relevant.

How many in my generation is so afraid that these younger generations will be taking care of us in our old age; while we are in need of nursing homes care and hospital care? How many feels that their cane will become a weapon to beat these younger generations to take better care of us or else?

These younger generations don’t have the respect their elders attitude. They are more likely to be looking down on their smartphones at social media rather than looking out for others or doing their jobs, whatever it may be. Ever since the Pandemic, it has been hard to get people back to work. The older generation, those who can chose to retire; while the younger generation chose not to get a job. Most of them are still living at home with their parents and they expect their parents to continue taking care of them.

I had my first paying job when I was 13 years old, picking berries at Grandrude’s fruit farm, near our farm. It was a summer job. We were shocked when my mother said that we were getting a part-time job. it wasn’t because our family needed the money-it was to teach us the value of hard work and money. Then when I was in the 8th grade, I gave up my study hall to worked the school cafeteria.

How could the older and wiser ignore the dangers of adolescents reading fewer books and logging more screen hours? How could they not realize that social media would flood the kids with youth culture and peer pressure day and night, blocking the exposure to adult matters and fresh ideas and a little high art that used to happen all the time?

The tycoons of social media have to stop pretending that they are friendly nerd-gods building a better world and admit that they are just tobacco farmers in T-shirts selling an addictive product to children. They are even using their influence on Social Media to win over votes. The Democrats were very big at doing this. They want to keep us dumb, that way they can control us better.

if you ever post some truths on Facebook, they would “fact check” you and shut you down for exposing the truth. They were indoctrinating our young people, much like Adolf Hitler did during World War 2. Indoctrinated is too often repeated an idea or belief to someone until they accept it without criticism.

Our schools are doing just that to control our minds. Now that parents have found out the truth and protest about it at school boards meeting; they are labeled domestic terrorists. This is one reason why I’m all for demolishing the Department of Education. Why I’m in favor of homeschooling over sending them to public schools. And I went to public schools!

Like the TV show, “Are You Smarter than a 5th Grader?” It should be: are you dumber than a 5th grader.

They heard their elders proclaim that the digital breakthrough had altered the way we think, read, and communicate.

If you say this to some younger generation, they are easily offended and get defensive. They don’t want to admit that it’s the truth.

I don’t know about you, but this scares the hell out of me, knowing that these younger generations will be taking care of us in our old age. Our cane will become our weapons;and we would have to use them to get them to put away their smartphone and do a better job in taking care of us.

if you agree with this,I want to hear from you. I want to hear your opinions. Your opinions matters! This is still a free country. What do you think? Are we smarter than a 5th grader? Is the younger generations becoming dumber?

April Fool’s Day is this Tuesday, April 1st. Are we easily fooled by the social media and the government? I’m here to tell you, we are nobody’s fool. Since the Pandemic, the American people had woken up and saw what was being done to our kids with being indoctrinated and such. They’re not domestic terrorist; but rather they are fighting back to take back this country from our corrupt government , social media, and our educators who are out there indoctrinating our kids.

Don’t let them fool you anymore! The future is in the hands of the younger generations, but our generation must first take a stand to protect them.