Post #4762138 · Elektrine

2026-09-12 02:39 UTC

My thoughts: kids aren’t bored enough anymore to care about learning anything. Even poor kids now seem to have endless access to the internet and social media. They are used to life in 15second or less clips and statements. They don’t need to know anything other than how to Google or AI and answer and therefore don’t know when they are getting a fabricated answer. It’s kind of like the kids that only eat crap food and weigh 300lbs in elementary school. Their choices might be horrible but adults made those the choices available to them. I have a nephew who want to learn cursive but his parents are against it because ‘neither of them have good handwriting’. Under 30s are in a bad time for learning but they aren’t the ones responsible for it. The billionaires want uneducated serfs.

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@Jankatarch@lemmy.world 2026-09-12 05:39

I have watched a 26 year old open tiktok, click on search bar, and type “java hello world” once to setup their template with, so it’s definetely not a kids-exclusive thing either.

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@myyass@lemmy.world 2026-09-12 06:03

I don’t think it’s that, kids are just bored. The education system is rudimentary and outdated and boring; I learned pretty much everything through self study. School was never useful for me. Cursive is pretty useless as well; I wish I was just taught to write in Japanese. I don’t think uneducated people is what anyone wants either, complacent and compliant people is what is sought after. I don’t think anyone is looking for a woopsies, that 200k machine broke, or the fire suppression system turned on, etc. Oh yeah, I worked in education, I tried to make a change and failed.

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