Quote:For perhaps the first time in history, a generation is going to leave behind a country and opportunity that is less than what their parents/grand-parents/great-grand-parents left them.  It's pretty sad really.

 

This part is so ridiculous it is hard to know where to start.  The generation before gave us this generation.  The middle class has been one horizontal line for 40 years.  

 

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/...story.html

 

Not surprisingly, facts are different from perception.  Drop out rates all time low and scores are up.  10% went to college in the 30's, 40's and 50's.  Now, enrollment is around 65%.  I remember TMD arguing how much better the old days were and how violent people are now a days except crime is down.  Those little facts still did not matter.

 

I thought this part of the article was great: “Going back to at least 1880, the business community has never said a nice word about public schools. Every generation of graduates is supposedly stupider than the last,” says David C. Berliner, a professor emeritus of education at Arizona State University. “The demonization of youth is a national pastime in the U.S.”

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