Can I please get insight from a teacher's perspective on the knowledge of teenagers today?

Let me start this by saying that I am a senior in high school. I genuinely don't understand how people have such few braincells nowadays. I am in classes (AP TOO!) with students that write and read like they are 10 years old (heck, even I wrote/read better than them at that age, and I'm not that special). It's actually painful to be surrounded by this daily. I don't mean it to be offensive or harsh, sorry, but I just want to understand why it is that no one my age knows any grammar, cannot write, cannot read, and cannot even begin to comprehend simple things.

I would also like to point out that I am in no ways referring to disadvantaged communities, I go to school in a very well off area with a district that is racking in hundreds of millions of dollars a year.

Have any teachers noticed kids becoming "dumber" (sorry) or just a lack of effort in general? If anyone wants more information or examples of what I'm referring to, just let me know.

*PS, I am not trying to say I'm a genius or anything, but I know "your" from "you're", so I feel like that's grounds enough for this question!

Submitted October 08, 2023 at 11:25PM by a-skywalker_ https://ift.tt/YCfT9JF