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<blockquote data-quote="WoodsCraft" data-source="post: 3928298" data-attributes="member: 51836">Student education&nbsp; in the United States has been declining for decades on end&nbsp;&nbsp; ,&nbsp; I think the &quot;COVID did it &quot; reason is a bit thin at this point.&nbsp; Education costs continue to go up and yet the quality of the education kids leave high school with is lower than ever.If kids were leaving high school properly educated there wouldn&#039;t be remedial classes in college now.&nbsp; This tends to refute the idea kids are leaving school now more completely educated than their predecessors .&nbsp; I read recently Millennials and Zoomers have the highest literacy rates compared to previous&nbsp; generations meaning they can read (MAYBE) , but&nbsp; their comprehension and breadth of knowledge belies they&#039;ve left high school with a true education.When I went to&nbsp; school and yeah its been a minute&nbsp; ...&nbsp; We were taught American History, World History, Geography and Civics , Oklahoma History&nbsp; along with English and Literature ,&nbsp; General Science , Biology , Chemistry , the Maths,&nbsp; Shop , Ag&nbsp; , Business ,&nbsp; Typing ,&nbsp; Music&nbsp; and etc...I left school fairly educated and&nbsp; wasn&#039;t a great student&nbsp; / didn&#039;t devote myself to my studies&nbsp; .&nbsp;&nbsp; Attending college many years later it was observed by me&nbsp;&nbsp; they were exposing students to things I learned in HIGH SCHOOL and these kids were seeing the information for the very first time .What makes this more interesting is&nbsp; my father was exposed to a&nbsp; far more rounded education than I was , when he went to high school they actually had opportunities to be exposed to flying lessons ,&nbsp;&nbsp; my grandfather who left left school&nbsp; in 9th grade / never graduated because he had to help take care of the family actually was exposed to&nbsp; Latin&nbsp; and Greek in school .&nbsp; For what it was worth he was a very literate man who read everything he could get his hands on,&nbsp; and was quite good with math .Speaking of Civics&nbsp; it&#039;s been in the news more a few times recently&nbsp; how Oklahoma lawmakers have identified we need Civics education in school,&nbsp; what the hell happened to it ?&nbsp;&nbsp; It was required when I was in 8th grade&nbsp; , it wasn&#039;t optional everyone had to take Civics and Geography in Jr High School&nbsp; .</blockquote>

[QUOTE="WoodsCraft, post: 3928298, member: 51836"] Student education in the United States has been declining for decades on end , I think the "COVID did it " reason is a bit thin at this point. Education costs continue to go up and yet the quality of the education kids leave high school with is lower than ever. If kids were leaving high school properly educated there wouldn't be remedial classes in college now. This tends to refute the idea kids are leaving school now more completely educated than their predecessors . I read recently Millennials and Zoomers have the highest literacy rates compared to previous generations meaning they can read (MAYBE) , but their comprehension and breadth of knowledge belies they've left high school with a true education. When I went to school and yeah its been a minute ... We were taught American History, World History, Geography and Civics , Oklahoma History along with English and Literature , General Science , Biology , Chemistry , the Maths, Shop , Ag , Business , Typing , Music and etc... I left school fairly educated and wasn't a great student / didn't devote myself to my studies . Attending college many years later it was observed by me they were exposing students to things I learned in HIGH SCHOOL and these kids were seeing the information for the very first time . What makes this more interesting is my father was exposed to a far more rounded education than I was , when he went to high school they actually had opportunities to be exposed to flying lessons , my grandfather who left left school in 9th grade / never graduated because he had to help take care of the family actually was exposed to Latin and Greek in school . For what it was worth he was a very literate man who read everything he could get his hands on, and was quite good with math . Speaking of Civics it's been in the news more a few times recently how Oklahoma lawmakers have identified we need Civics education in school, what the hell happened to it ? It was required when I was in 8th grade , it wasn't optional everyone had to take Civics and Geography in Jr High School . [/QUOTE]

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