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In reply to the discussion: Yikes. Result of texting and?--Companies are firing Gen Z employees soon after hiring them. [View all]
Meowmee
(9,212 posts)4. This has been going on for over 30 years
It’s only going to get worse with AI as well. No one will have to write very much at all anymore and they can just use AI.. 😹 as far as the attention span issues go that has also been going on for a long time. I was told not to make a video lecture more than 5- 10 minutes long because nobody would be able to pay attention to it.
* adding this: when some students hear Leonardo they think Di Caprio… not Da Vinci… one student when starting her presentation said I’m going to be talking about the Mona Lisa by Leonardo DiCaprio 😹😹😹
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Yikes. Result of texting and?--Companies are firing Gen Z employees soon after hiring them. [View all]
hlthe2b
Dec 2024
OP
I personally think that a lot more time and emphasis should be spent on English composition courses
Walleye
Dec 2024
#1
Our educational system is to blame for the lack of reading and writing in schools.
rich7862
Dec 2024
#129
Absolutely. Writing essays, the thought process it develops, and by typing them on a keyboard...
brush
Dec 2024
#176
Apparently the high-level administrators never learned to not just read, but to think critically...
brush
Dec 2024
#177
And in the details of "old math." Too many people do not know how to work with percentages.
kerry-is-my-prez
Dec 2024
#166
My God. Are these parents actually sitting in on the interview and prompting their kids answers?
brush
Dec 2024
#86
I still remember in 1985, I moved to NYC for a job and was looking for an apartment...
bsiebs
Dec 2024
#29
The chair of a science department told me she got calls from the parents of young faculty.
yardwork
Dec 2024
#105
The children of very wealthy people don't even have to suffer the indignity of a real interview.
hunter
Dec 2024
#118
Read a version of this story a couple of wks ago. This blew me away. Also mentioned
allegorical oracle
Dec 2024
#161
I know a woman who works at a university to get students thru the program for teaching certification
Attilatheblond
Dec 2024
#167
My daughter had an IEP, and she isn't cognitvely impaired. She is quadriplegic with a speech disability,
deurbano
Dec 2024
#55
I've heard this multiple times from different disconnected people in different regions
Renew Deal
Dec 2024
#6
Yes, we tried to save money and cut corners by dumbing down what was asked of kids
meadowlander
Dec 2024
#80
My point being that when Gen X got to the workplace, there were plenty of scare pieces about them being unemployable.
WhiskeyGrinder
Dec 2024
#31
Harvard started its writing program to handle the fact that students couldn't write
Prairie Gates
Dec 2024
#68
IMO, readers are usually better writers. I'm curious if they're more empathetic too, generally.
CrispyQ
Dec 2024
#131
One my slogans: in order to write well, one must read well. Plus way too much screen
cbabe
Dec 2024
#171
In order to graduate with a four year degree, we had to write a 500 word essay. 2001
oldfart73
Dec 2024
#16
It is compassion for a problem we ALL have a role in propagating. Get a clue, Celerity. Really.
hlthe2b
Dec 2024
#22
I was talking about some of the replies, and please do not tell me to 'get a clue'
Celerity
Dec 2024
#45
You help no one by denying the problem exists. Is it new? No. Only getting worse. And yes, the ageism
hlthe2b
Dec 2024
#49
You do not have the right to call out every other DUer on this thread that you disagree with--
hlthe2b
Dec 2024
#59
Btw, 'my abuse?' That is rich. especially coming from you, who condescendingly told me to 'get a clue'
Celerity
Dec 2024
#62
It isn't strange for DU. It is par for the course. I have tried to get so many of social set, most of them in the 18
Celerity
Dec 2024
#82
Get a clue, Celerity. This abusive disconnect you have for those who are concerned for
hlthe2b
Dec 2024
#96
Most here are concerned, want to help and take blame for the system that has failed several generations now
hlthe2b
Dec 2024
#159
if students cannot do the work. flunk them. does them no favors to do the work for them
msongs
Dec 2024
#23
It makes me very sad that there's so little respect for all kinds of people nowadays.
snot
Dec 2024
#147
I work as a substitute and I demand every student finish at least one assignment
kimbutgar
Dec 2024
#39
we've been getting new hires at work. I can firmly say that most of them lack proper grammar, punctuation...
Javaman
Dec 2024
#46
Wait.... After Trump and his ilk get rid of the DOE, our kids won't be able to do any jobs that requires any....
William Gustafson
Dec 2024
#51
I've worked in an administrator position for 18 years now, where I hire professional and support staff.
lees1975
Dec 2024
#78
Writing is BIG in law. Son was always a good writer but said in law school he really learned how to write.
LizBeth
Dec 2024
#117
I agree. My sons are 29 and 27. I love their perspective/attitude and peers. Well educated.
LizBeth
Dec 2024
#120
There are the Marjorie Stoneman Douglas mass shooting survivors & others that speak well to the generation...
hlthe2b
Dec 2024
#181