09 July 2007

America's Youth: Then and Now

This is interesting. The Courier (Findlay, Ohio) asked 15 teachers to comment on this question: Are kids really worse now than they were years ago?

The responses, as the Courier put it, "may intrigue you"...

(scroll down a few clicks since the paper's link doesn't hit the exact beginning)

3 comments:

ohdave said...

Great find West.

Here's the link though:

http://www.thecourier.com/Issues/2007/Jul/ar_news_070907.asp#story3

(They moved it)

WestEnder said...

Fixed it... thanks for the heads-up.

Anonymous said...

Most teens I see are much more polite than punks in the 80s. In some ways they seem a little slower (85% of not knowing how to tell time on an analog clock) but that might balance out with more tech skills.