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To worry about life now that young people's basic skills are so poor

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CurdinHenry · 15/04/2026 12:17

They're taking on responsibility for such important things and you have to check everything they do because the ways of thinking that used to be taught and hammered home just aren't any more and their concentration is shot (never mind their incentive to work hard since they often won't be able to afford to move out of home regardless).

Not their fault, the fault of the education system and wider society.

(Scotland specific, maybe England is better)

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Dimms · 15/04/2026 12:31

What are you basing this on? I work with children and young people and I don’t recognise your characterisation at all.

InMySpareTime · 15/04/2026 12:29

Young people are not one homogeneous mass, they have a wide range of work ethics, attention spans, and levels of common sense.
The same is true of middle-aged people and older people.
The young people I encounter (my young adult DCs and their friends mainly) are extremely motivated and diligent, but I wouldn’t presume to say all young people are like that either.
Many younger adults are working more than full time in portfolio careers to pay ever-rising living costs, perhaps the people you’re working with are tired from working evenings and weekends around their day job so they can save to move out of parental homes.

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