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[QUOTE="IthacaMatt, post: 5027001, member: 405"]
No, that was our younger siblings in Generation X.  They're the ones who ruined education.

Edit:  Here's my evidence.  Baby Boomers grew up in the late 60s and 1970s. The drinking age was 18, pot was abundant, sex didn't kill you, and life was very affordable.

Generation X came of age in the 80s and 90s - the era of Wall Street, cocaine, designer jeans, rampant consumerism, and junk bonds - the beginnings of companies destroying the economy for profit.

When George W. Bush passed the No Child Left Behind Law in 2002, that is when we started testing our teachers, and as a result, "teaching to the test".  This was the beginning of the end of critical thinking and writing essays in school, and led eventually to standardized tests for every couple years of a child's education.

Then we began rating school districts and teachers by how their pupils performed on these tests.  Housing prices went up in "good" school districts, and the whole playing field was tilted.

Also in this time frame, the cost of going to college exploded.  When I graduated from Cornell, tuition was $7,000 for the year.  Now, it's 10 times as much.
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