@ClaraListensprechen4 My sister's husband in particular has struggled to learn important life skills on his own because his parents were very checked out and the education system did not teach. My sister has been helping him now, and my parents, try to fill in some of those knowledge gaps of things he had to try to figure out on his own but has struggled to get down correctly.

@ClaraListensprechen4 Some things were removed because they were considered too gendered (home ec and shop) rather than just requiring everyone to take both. Some were removed to make room for common core requirements which only teach to the test and don't focus on teaching important life skills. Regardless, if people's parents DIDN'T step in, those skills were not communicated.

@ClaraListensprechen4 Hence why some people in their 30s and 40s now are trying to step in and help out the people in their 20s who are finding that they're struggling and their own parents are either checked out or unequipped to teach them because they themselves weren't taught. It doesn't have to be a generation war! It really just varies by individual—some boomers were hands on, some weren't, and changes to the education system aggravated the disconnect.

@lyssachiavari
You say further: "Some things were removed because they were considered too gendered (home ec and shop) rather than just requiring everyone to take both. Some were removed to make room for common core requirements which only teach to the test and don't focus on teaching important life skills."

...and that's not a Boomer problem. It's something a Boomer protested, so get that straight and keep that straight.

@lyssachiavari

I'll now focus on this thing you said: "Some were removed to make room for common core requirements which only teach to the test and don't focus on teaching important life skills."

This portion didn't start out a GenX thing but after development became a Millennial thing and it has to do with the conservative war on public schools, not an entire generation of Boomers--thus it wasn't true for ALL schools.

Here again, blaming Boomers for all society's ills fails to recognize the differences among boomers and all it does is provide the whiner with a self-pity party and a scapegoat to whack.

@lyssachiavari

Finally, I'll address this: "My sister's husband in particular has struggled to learn important life skills on his own because his parents were very checked out and the education system did not teach. "

Among the generation of Boomers are the self-taught, as in spending quality time in a library. What marks GenXers and Millennials as spoild-rotten lame brats is that they demand every bit of knowledge be spoon-fed to them or they throw tantrums.

Boomers not only knew how to teach themselves beyond what any given teacher taught in class but they made discoveries. Can't say the same for the spoon-fed.

None of the whining GenXers or Millennials have stood back, looked at their situation regardless of who was at fault for it, and decide how to move forward from it.

None. All they do is whine and throw tantrums, and well after rejecting any/everything anybody has ever TRIED to teach 'em. As for your sister's husband, he's solving problems, not whining, so he deserves all the kudos he gets. But he's a rare one.

@lyssachiavari

Finally, a voice of reason. And I quote you: " However, many of my peers were not. Their parents were checked out on what was going on with their education and they weren't supplementing."

No white collar city worker can teach any kid farming. Not any kid, not even his own. That's why we have professional teachers, which is why public school is important.

It's politicians and local/state militants that force school boards to pull or add this or that program and to blame this on an entire generation of Boomers is bogus as hell. It's a whine-fest that solves no problems but provides for the whiner a self-pity party.