Tornado Alley (PROG)

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And yet neither you nor I had those kind of difficulties. Nuns and Christian Brothers had me reading, writing, memorizing and computing nearly non-stop for 12 years. Every generation has kids who do the same and too many who don't.

Has ANY generation NOT wrung its hands over 'those kids'?

It can't be more than 'some students', otherwise how did they get the grades or the test scores to get into those elite colleges.

I've posted here in the past about teachers at elite colleges whose students find it very difficult to read entire books. They can't concentrate, can't keep track of details. Reading a whole 350 pages or more is a scary prospect. That is bad and wrong.

To be fair, it isn't entirely the fault of generative AI. When I taught part time at Boston College back in the mid-70s, as soon as I began, the department chair told me not to bother to assign term papers, because the students couldn't handle writing even short ones, and I'd find the experience frustrating. I thought they could surely manage three to five pages.