The Dumbest Generation

I think the article points out some very serious concerns about my young generation, but I also think some of the examples are very far fetched and don’t accurately the whole generation. I think there are many more students who do very well in school and study hard and get good grades. There may be more distractions as students nowadays but there are also more resources. Kids didn’t used to be able to do Internet research and able to look things up in minutes rather than go to the library and have to make a day of it. Today we also have the ability to type papers on computers making them much faster than writing a research paper with just a piece of lined paper and a pencil. I also have friends, including myself, who are able to do their homework with their myspace or facebook page up and do fine with splitting up time for both social life and schoolwork. Kids also ask the question, “When will I use this when I grow up?. If a student does not feel like the subject truly matters or affects them, then they are certainly not going to try as hard at it as a subject they feel matters. There are a lot of things that go into how a kid does in school today. You cannot count out the whole generation just because it seems like there are more distractions today.