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I must've fallen through the cracks, because I went through the American education system and I'm not completely stupid.
It's more that the system itself just leaves more and more children behind, as passing kids who aren't actually making the grade has become the norm because parents are abusive and more apt to harass/harangue and schools are pressured with funding to make sure enough kids are graduating. Teachers themselves are left with few options and there's still bright kids, they're just waaaaay in the minority compared to the apparently teeming masses of absolute fuckwits.
Also, I'm in my 40's and when I think of the quality and intelligence of the people I graduated with? Well, maybe it hasn't gotten that much worse, actually. Because I remember thinking everyone around me was a fucking idiot, tempering that thought as I got older, but now I've come back full fucking circle to these people are fucking idiots, raising other idiots.
If kids are dumb today, millennials are on the hook for it, boomers didn't do this one.
I always think of the George Carlin saying...
Hey, not ALL millennials are on the hook for this one!
For instance, I never found anyone to love me, and have kids with. So THERE! You can't blame ME for idiots today!
.....but also yes. Kids in the 90s, that I went to school with were fucking idiots. Including me.
The bulk of older teenagers/college kids are from Gen X, not so much from millennials.
"There's no educating a smart boy."
— Terry Pratchett, Thief of Time (Discworld, #26)
GNU Sir Terry
Probably the exception to the rule. I did as well, and constantly find myself at a loss for how it simply doesn't occur to most people to stop and think about something for a split second as opposed to just impulsively doing whatever.
.......well......