Teens don't know?

[wrag]

Seems the Schools are not teaching them or ?


http://www.usatoday.com/printedition/news/20080226/1a_bottomstrip26.art.htm


Should this have been in the intellectual thread?


OOOPS edit to add this link

http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=080226103117.duhctnsx&show_article=1



OOPS one more link...

http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=080226132654.huswelat&show_article=1


Things are gettin interestin on the young people front?

[Xargos]

The government wants socialist sheep who will depend on them for everything.  They can't accomplish that if future generations can think for themselves.

[moot]

Living above a certain level of comfort means that unless you have an innate knack for it, you can live without any skills for dealing with adversity.  
Any cultural knowledge that's too far out of their day to day life will probably get written off as useless.

[Reschke]

Plus most teens or even elementary school age kids don't know how to study. They just learn through memorization.