This generation of isn't dumber than any that came before them. It is just getting harder to cheat at school. amirite?

Did you put grammatical errors in the title and body on purpose or...?

by Anonymous 2 years ago

4d chess flex on those boomers.

by Anonymous 2 years ago

Lmfao

by Anonymous 2 years ago

**\*Me and the boys entering the 5th dimension to mess with people\***

by Anonymous 2 years ago

*Me and the girls entering the 6th dimension to mess with people*

by Anonymous 2 years ago

Me entering the 7th dimension because I'm hungry and these chickens talk.

by Anonymous 2 years ago

OP is part of this generation and is talking about themselves.

by Anonymous 2 years ago

Grammar police over here

by Anonymous 2 years ago

😂😭

by Anonymous 2 years ago

i honestly believe that it was intentional to say that is he is one of them

by Anonymous 2 years ago

We've lowered the bar so far that it's kinda hard to really compare. 100 years ago a high school graduate could be guaranteed to have math and language skills of a certain calibre. Now it means they showed up more often that not. My grandmother who literally was a teacher in a one room schoolhouse illustrated this to me 35 years ago and it sure hasn't improved since then. She could do math in her head that would bring students to their knees today. It's not that she was a math genius, she just worked at the level expected of her. The harder to cheat part is just ridiculous.

by Anonymous 2 years ago

I read somewhere that a hundred years ago a high school education was comparable to a college education today.

by Anonymous 2 years ago

i honestly with the cheating part and i hate that most of my classmates do this without regret and they just easily move on without any consequences and also no learnings

by Anonymous 2 years ago

Lmao, it's really not hard to cheat in school nowadays, literally put your AirPods in and put a voice memo of all the answers and have the memo repeat constantly, then hand in your test. If anything it's become easier. Also there is still plagiarism holes in the technology, I won't give a way how to easily bypass it, because then when you reveal secrets, they'll patch it up. 😉 One thing I'll agree with you though is social media definitely makes their stupidity more public. That's one of the pain in the asses about social media. Everyone and their grandma knows your business now.

by Anonymous 2 years ago

i also agree that social media is literally showing us who are superficial and stupid and those who support the wrong election candidates when there is a better option

by Anonymous 2 years ago

You guys need to cheat in school?

by Anonymous 2 years ago

Get this. If you copy the answers from the books and lectures into your brain they can't see them when you take the test. 100% cheat sheet never get caught.

by Anonymous 2 years ago

Schools hate this one simple trick

by Anonymous 2 years ago

LEARNINGGGGGGG!

by Anonymous 2 years ago

Hey, no clickbait!

by Anonymous 2 years ago

Cheating is completely rampant. I remember studying and having a tough time in school, later discovering that a pretty big proportion of the class was just passing around memorized test questions from previous classes.

by Anonymous 2 years ago

yea so probably the problem is tests that require only memorization when every student actually has different strengths

by Anonymous 2 years ago

Procrastination is a bitch. Not something I'm proud of, but definitely resorted to slap dash plagerism in highschool when I left myself 2 hours to write papers. Was almost too easy in the late 90s, when the older teachers were internet illiterate.

by Anonymous 2 years ago

sometimes time restraint and personal problems hinder some individuals to actually focus on academics but it doesn't mean they are not smart

by Anonymous 2 years ago

I also think the amount to learn gets bigger and so does what each course covers. For example the same level of graphic communication taught 20 years apart would be totally different. Mum cant help my sister as she hasnt heard of things my sisters doing, and she took biology a couple of classes further than my sister. And also education sort of became less of a priority during covid and even before that for a while teachers struggled to get funding

by Anonymous 2 years ago

exactly! plus some old teachers are unable to even keep up with using zoom or video calls so they just give out homework and not teaching anymore

by Anonymous 2 years ago

So to try and prove that people in this generation aren't dumb... you used cheating on school work as an example? YOU USED CHEATING ON SCHOOL WORK AS AN EXAMPLE TO PROVE SOMEONE ISN'T DUMB?!? This **has** to be a joke

by Anonymous 2 years ago

What?..

by Anonymous 2 years ago

Cheating teaches creative problem solving solutions. It's like an arms race between teacher and student. The kids who get caught are the stupid ones… and ironically, the ones who need to cheat in the first place.

by Anonymous 2 years ago

Always funny how when people get older and learn more from experience, then the next generations seem dumber to them when they were just as dumb at the same age too

by Anonymous 2 years ago

i agree to this! personally when i had this huge experience, i felt like that mistake made me learn a lot and gave me a wiser and broader perspective and understanding of life that made others seem less wise for me

by Anonymous 2 years ago

Just you saying that they try and cheat makes them look dumb lmao. If you have to cheat on a test, you're dumb. Sorry to tell ya.

by Anonymous 2 years ago

I don't think they are dumber, I think they have less critical thinking skills which honestly is the fault of their parents and teachers, not them. I mean there isn't much you need to solve now, you can just google it.

by Anonymous 2 years ago

Critical thinking is skill every generation lacks in huge numbers

by Anonymous 2 years ago

exactly! knowledge is available on the tip of our hands and it is just up to us to know about things we are interested in! research and detective work have been really hard back then when technological innovations were not yet developed

by Anonymous 2 years ago

Wait it's harder to cheat now?? You literally have a calculator in your pocket! And that calculator also happens to have the ugh.. rest of human knowledge easily accessible at your fingertips.

by Anonymous 2 years ago

sadly you can't use your phone or any gadget while you are in an exam room, at least in my country or university

by Anonymous 2 years ago

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by Anonymous 2 years ago

You lie usually required to hand your phone to the Proctor before the exam starts.

by Anonymous 2 years ago

Ok, boomer.

by Anonymous 2 years ago

They are also expected to know more things than the generations before them while also still knowing the obsolete things from those same generations.

by Anonymous 2 years ago

They are not, they have easier access to information

by Anonymous 2 years ago

I think the current generation is smarter than any generation previous. Older people just don't want to admit it, or accept it.

by Anonymous 2 years ago

We teach our kids everything we know but not everything they know - so then they are smarter than us But we can learn so much from them when we put our egos aside and accept that we are now the supporting actors in their lives and no longer the lead

by Anonymous 2 years ago

i would agree to this but it actually depends on what kind of smart you are talking about, there are street and book smart among others

by Anonymous 2 years ago

You forgot the noun of what isn't "dumber", dummy.

by Anonymous 2 years ago

Spill bestie.

by Anonymous 2 years ago

Actually after a year or two of remote learning due to covid, the younger generation is legit stupider at their age than those before them.

by Anonymous 2 years ago

Test scores in all major areas have fallen off a cliff since covid. There is much more going on than not being able to cheat as well.

by Anonymous 2 years ago

Yes having all the answers to anything you can imagine at your fingertips definitely makes it harder to cheat

by Anonymous 2 years ago

I don't think the current generation is dumber but they're far more dependent on technology. As adults they often struggle to handle writing and arithmetic at a middle school level without a computer or calculator; and I suspect this is because they could use a computer or calculator as a crutch throughout their education.

by Anonymous 2 years ago

my generation had a sweet spot where the tech was there but the detecting cheating tech was not there

by Anonymous 2 years ago

Are you kidding??? Cheating is easier than ever. Solution manuals are way more accessible since everyone's got their own little device to torrent them on. Not only that, open book and open notes tests are more prevalent with almost unregulated papers. If ur vocabulary is so bad that you can't plagiarize properly than that's really on you, or your language arts education— more likely your Language arts education as there is a shortage of teachers rn but the amount of jobs needed to be done is crazy high and they're not being paid to fix your grammar and vocabulary in a normal setting. The problem really is the quality of education, not the lack of cheating.

by Anonymous 2 years ago

In a lot of cases, the parents are too busy working or doing their own thing. My friends parents were very involved in showing their kids what they need to know to survive out in the world. Now, they show their kids. One person I know that complains a lot about the younger generation does not believe in taking time to teach young people skills. They think life is watching movies, going out to eat, etc. Their concept is just putting them out in the world and they go into their first job unprepared. If they make it, they make it.

by Anonymous 2 years ago

Nope. Schools are zoos these days and more and more teachers dgaf.

by Anonymous 2 years ago

Generation of what?

by Anonymous 2 years ago

I think they are smarter than op

by Anonymous 2 years ago

Unpopular opinion: pollution has affected the latest generations and is making them weaker and stupider.

by Anonymous 2 years ago

i am torn if i will agree and disagree with this. but i think i will lean more towards agree, because pollution could affect us physically and mentally

by Anonymous 2 years ago

Boomer generation(50s+) had it very easy with cheating. Just use /pay the poor nerdy girl in class to get all the answers from and write your reports. Once things turned digital it all got a lot more complicated.

by Anonymous 2 years ago

Wrong in my opinion. The problem with adolescents today is that are no consequences for bad behaviour. This has led to disrupted class rooms, kids who try hard are often bullied for being nerds. The lack of consequences has led to an increase in toxic behaviour and toxic individuals. Bring back some proper discipline and watch grades go up.

by Anonymous 2 years ago

what kind of proper discipline are you trying to imply? i hope this isn't violent consequences you are talking about

by Anonymous 2 years ago

Now it's harder to cheat in school wtf? Before the internet one had to make their own small cheat sheets with knowlage they had to find on their own. Cheating was not used just because you don't know but rather knowledge you couldn't remember. Compare it to 2020. During online exams, everyone was using google or group chats to get high notes with 0 preparation. And it's not going away, even on in-person exams students use their phones or smartwatches all the time

by Anonymous 2 years ago

It's getting harder to cheat? Kids today have the entire internet on their phones. It's easier to cheat than EVER.

by Anonymous 2 years ago

no it is not easy to cheat because for online exams, there are exam tabs that detect searching and exams are done with mirrors and cameras on. and for exams at school, you can't bring phones.

by Anonymous 2 years ago

We lowered the bar to pass to such a degree all you need to succeed is a pencil... and still people fail. Sooo people are dumber now while intelligents has gone up.

by Anonymous 2 years ago

First of all, cheating can often involve creativity and thinking outside the box (which is why so many teachers ask why students cheated in the first place, because it can get to a point where just doing the assignment would have been simpler and easier). Second, the types of skills that students need nowadays are different than the ones they needed in the past. Back in the day, things like memorization and being able to recall information quickly were a lot more important because it was harder to access information (had to go to the library, flip through stacks of books, etc.). Now, with all the information we could want at our fingertips, the ability to find and sort through information is a lot more important. I remember when my math teachers would tell me we needed to commit certain things to memory because "we wouldn't be walking around with a calculator in our pocket" to help us. Well...we are now. The human brain naturally seeks the easiest route to accomplish something. If it doesn't *need* to do something, it won't. It's not a matter of laziness or stupidity, it's a matter of efficiency.

by Anonymous 2 years ago

I don't think you are right on this one op… but I also don't think it's their fault. My daughter goes to the school I went to as a kid and the bar is set just so low. Over the years they've decided to achieve better outcomes to just simply expect less. More tech less thinking etc. if she went in when I did with the knowledge base she has now she would have failed every single class. So they are. But only because education is failing them. Well here In nz at least. But I have to assume globally it's gotta be fairly similar

by Anonymous 2 years ago

On the contrary this is the most Socially and emotionally aware generation there has likely ever been. We're smarter and better (Yes Better) than previous generations.

by Anonymous 2 years ago

i believe not really smarter is the right term, but wiser, more empathetic, inclusive, and progressive would be better terms compared to traditional and limited perspectives

by Anonymous 2 years ago

I agree, I'm 1997 and I think when zoomers grow up they will make better world than it is today

by Anonymous 2 years ago

Millennials have made a mess of it but we'll get it back on track.

by Anonymous 2 years ago

Unlucky with COVID into war fr, gotta fix the climate too, got the job cut out

by Anonymous 2 years ago

Haven't met anyone **adults** born after year 2000 that can cook simple meals, and it's sad.

by Anonymous 2 years ago

with all due respect, i would say that you have not met people from all walks of life. wait til you meet people from a large university or in your future workforce

by Anonymous 2 years ago

Lol I don't think so... Especially with COVID mandatory online classes and parents couldn't drop off their kids at "glorified baby sitters", which school should never be taken as, but a lot of people use it as, didn't even have the factor of being in a classroom to be in a setting that's less distracting than home. I know there was no way around this but, it's just fact, I don't blame anyone. I think we're going to have some you get Gen Z that are far behind in education, not that we already don't have people like that, that are a lot older lol.

by Anonymous 2 years ago

U cheat in school?

by Anonymous 2 years ago

No... just no. Lol

by Anonymous 2 years ago

I'm seeing that they don't have much common sense

by Anonymous 2 years ago

I do feel like they are getting progressively dumber and honestly more useless due to the ways people can make money doing dumb stuff for social media. It seems less and less people see any reason to learn anything if it's not related to social media and less people are actually trying to get jobs that actually benefit society. It just seems like peoples obsession with social media is growing and growing which is leading more people to try and be "influencers" and this is causing less people to have a desire to learn as most think they can just do a quick google search to find out things they don't know and they don't want a job other than being in the internet. Not that all influencers are bad there are many that do benefit society but the majority are just younger people on tik tok or YouTube doing dumb or scummy things for views.

by Anonymous 2 years ago

My wife teaches middle school English and it's absolutely shocking how low the standards are for being able to read and write, and how many kids struggle to meet those standards. I was in middle school in the 90s and the level of expectation was higher back then without a doubt. I don't know if there's a difference between being dumber and being less capable, but children today definitely seen to be less capable. The extent to which they're coddled is shocking to me.

by Anonymous 2 years ago

Umm covid has definitely held back kids…

by Anonymous 2 years ago

The ironic thing is that kids don't even need to cheat to get through school these days. It's very difficult to outright fail many of these kids and hold them back. Most of them are just moved along by the system.

by Anonymous 2 years ago

No, they are definitely dumber. A lot dumber.

by Anonymous 2 years ago

In my middle school I was in a program called summit learning. Which had online tests where you needed to score 8/10 or higher to pass. in 2nd tri of 7th grade I found a fail proof way to cheat every test. And I never got caught. I didn't always pass but It helped in most classes except math.

by Anonymous 2 years ago

Nice try, kid from this generation.

by Anonymous 2 years ago

If you have to cheat. You should stay in school.

by Anonymous 2 years ago

They don't seem to be taught even the basics in school anymore. Def nothing before 2000 in history. They have the internet at their disposal also. They're dumb.

by Anonymous 2 years ago

Hahaha harder to cheat… you do know prior to mid/late 90s people did not have internet at home with which to share tests, essays, etc. Back then if we wanted to cheat we had to really put some effort in.

by Anonymous 2 years ago