re: #500 Anymouse 🌹

I think I am considered a baby boomer, I was born in 1960. I’m at the very end of that era though. I think the biggest advantage I had growing up when and where I did was that I got an excellent K-12 public education. With Civics, American History, State, Local and Federal Government classes all required for HS graduation and we had to begin taking foreign language classes in Jr. High School. My siblings are 5 and 10 yrs younger than I am and by the time they were out of elementary school, the State of Ohio decided these things weren’t important anymore (my siblings didn’t have those same requirements). We had shop classes, a whole building devoted to science on our school campus, and a huge amount of choices for elective classes. I graduated in 1978.

I don’t look down on the younger generations because it’s not the same world it was when I was the same age. I left high school and went straight to working a second job because I was on my own at 17. I was able to survive, had an apartment, money to pay bills and eventually a crappy car. I look at my son, and there is no way he can survive on the 12 bucks an hour he makes right now. He’s 23. And that’s why he’s still living at home, not because he’s lazy(except the stuff I ask him to do, lol). Each generation has its own shit to deal with, some had it better than others but I think it’s a mistake to think anyone (besides people with wealth handed to them) has it”easy”. YMMV of course.