The most underdiscussed problem in the USA right now is education.
Kids born between 2001 and 2020 are a lost generation.
1. Distracting cell phones in school
2. Never learned to use computers because they came of age post-iPhone
3. Lockdowns; for 2 years many simply did not go to school
4. And now, artificial intelligence. Why do your homework when you can snap a picture and ask ChatGPT? Why learn to read or write with AI and speech to text?
It’s in the data.
And I don’t think it’s getting better.
It’s getting worse.
People with the means to are increasingly homeschooling or sending their kids to private, which makes public education worse.
And now the kids who got a bad education themselves, who oftentimes don’t believe in the country, are teaching their younger peers (if you were born in 2000, you’re old enough to be a teacher in 2025!).
I’m not criticizing people for putting their kids in private. I’d do the same. And I’m not saying solving these problems is easy, from unions to underpaid teachers to cell phones being needed because of school shootings.
What I am saying is that we need to try.
Because we’re not.
And if we don’t, in 10 years, 10 years of educated boomers will be replaced by 10 years of kids who can’t read and write and our country is going to be an even bigger mess than it is now.