They know when to call it quit when the employer doesn't value them. Instead of just grinding it out and hoping it will get better.
Again, I don't think it has anything to do with generation and more to do with being young. After my BIL went to college -- so he was Gen X -- he called his mom to ask where to buy stamps. My own brother put egg shells down the garbage disposal until he had a plumber tell him that was the reason his drain stopped working. You don't know these things until you know. Now that we are old and have learned a bunch of things the hard way, we can look down on young people for not knowing things, but I remember being young and dumb.
Every generation talks **** about newer ones but this one in particular is just flat out intellectual, emotionally and sometimes even physically stunted. it’s the epitome of strong times create weak men which create strong men Gen Alpha is still <18 but finding they are more “there”
gen alpha needs to figure out not everything is a touch screen first lol also, gen alpha gonna be so reliant on LLM (AI), it's gonna be tough to go back.
Something she doesn't go over in this data is that the top performers are still performing better than ever, its just that the middle and bottom that are falling.
The NAEP breaks its testing into 5 performance quintiles: Top 90%, 75%, 50%, 25%, bottom 10% The top 90% is many cases have no significant changes in scoring across subjects, the instances where they did fall in 2022, their 2024 numbers are rebounding way sharper than any other quintile as well. The bottom 10% has the most significant decline in numbers out of all the quintiles. The top quintile is pretty much statistically the same to around 2015 ish, every quintile down is consistently performing increasing worse than the one above it. The top 25% of students seem ok, the 50th percentile is stabilizing, and the bottom 25 to 10% are in a free fall.
The top chart is the avg of math + reading? What happened in 2013? Do we have any stats like this for the rest of the world, or other regions...
Science sorry all on this website for the US NAEP data https://www.nationsreportcard.gov/ and then the global data is called PISA from OECD https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Programme_for_International_Student_Assessment if you scroll to rank comparison it shows data from 2000-22 People have complained about some countries selecting particularly high performing schools and students to inflate their rankings for the PISA I believe
Regarding what happened in 2013, that’s seemingly the peak, the 2015 test is the downfall. My anecdotal observation, that’s about the time when most kids became deeply entrenched in social media. I graduated in 2015, the whole 4 years of high school everyone was constantly on their phones, vine, snapchat, instagram. Middle school not so much, mostly texting.
