I attended school in the 80s and 90s and earned my Bachelor's in 2002. What things have changed to make it so that personal initiative, motivation, Etc. have seemingly disappeared from education as far as students are concerned?

I'm just trying to understand how kids can reach young adulthood and have few social skills, poor self-confidence, no means of internal regulation and decisionmaking and so on. When I was going to school, excelling without those things was virtually impossible. Even if you didn't exactly thrive, you still left with something.

I recently came across a post on Next Door from a high school graduate seeking babysitting work who was going to charge $20 an hour or $45 a day. People tried explaining the problems with this but she was politely immovable. It scares me to think some one like that is who our democracy may come to depend on.

Submitted June 15, 2025 at 01:55AM by cherry-care-bear https://ift.tt/gxjrdkS