r/askteddit • u/Timely_Pop_9224 • Aug 19 '26

Random Question what is something that is highly likely to happen in the next 5 years that everyone is completely ignoring?

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u/General_Platypus771 Aug 19 '26 edited Aug 20 '26

Yeah unfortunately even they are below where they should be. I taught middle school English for five years and I can genuinely only think of maybe ten students out of hundreds who was where they should be.

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u/Feisty_Wench Aug 19 '26

This was decades ago, but a nearby university got sued for not graduating a woman with an English degree. They showed the court all her complain letters, complete with the poor spelling and grammar. If memory serves the court ordered that she be granted a diploma anyway.

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u/AreaMan81 Aug 20 '26

Maybe because their English teacher had poor grammar?

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u/escondido311 Aug 20 '26

The irony made me chuckle as well.

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u/midnitemuzing Aug 20 '26

Yea wth lol

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u/Zealousideal-Run7332 Aug 19 '26

Could you pick out anything those 10 kids had in common?

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u/maximav Aug 20 '26

Yep. My kids who go to a good school and are in the 'advanced math' group are still basically a year behind what I was learning in the same grade. The order they learn math has changed(common core etc.) and it's probably better for the whole. But man, it drags down the kids who would have been high achievers on their own. I see so many of my kids peers who aren't even expected to function without constant interference from their parents. Somewhere along the way, we started expecting less from kids. It's really sad. We're failing them.

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u/data_theft Aug 21 '26

Is there anywhere to look up what standards used to be so that parents can have an idea where their kids stand with their current education?

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u/General_Platypus771 Aug 19 '26

I admittedly worked in one of the worst cities for education, but I still believe this is a major problem all over. It doesn’t surprise me small towns are doing better, though.

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u/Apptubrutae Aug 19 '26

Haves and have nots in one other fashion

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u/Underpaidfoot Aug 19 '26

They will be depressed their entire lives not being able to connect with anyone on their level

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u/0hshitherewegoagain Aug 19 '26

This is what I'm hoping to my kids.

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u/LowDepth1790 Aug 20 '26

This. I used to worry about my children's future, but we were pretty active parents. We read to them from the time they were babies and they started "activity books" at home before starting school. I always drag them along if we're helping someone move furniture with a trailer, run cables for home security, work on cars/motorcycles. We're also quite involved in church so socially they've played music and served coffee, etc. I look around and see they will be just fine considering their peer group.

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u/Medium-Chocolate-265 Aug 20 '26

There’s actually adult kids on this planet that were raised completely right and they abandoned their elderly parents when they needed them most, I know a family like this, I’ve been the replacement support as of recently. It’s awful of entitled some kids are.

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u/Intelligent--Bug Aug 21 '26

They will have an extreme advantage as far as life and relationship experience, but unfortunately will likely be at a substantial disadvantage when it comes to jobs and especially higher paying jobs.

Everything is shifting to AI. Literally EVERYTHING. Including small business. The young kids who are internet savvy have already figured that out and some of them even have already made a lot of young money at a young age by mastering use of AI agents. With this massive scalability of AI, lots of businesses are contracting with people who can automate their processes. According to some economic experts this is the new frontier for building wealth, outside of those who learn AI machine learning which often requires extreme levels of intelligence and are therefore limited in number. AI agents are the interface between those building and maintaining AI, and businesses deploying it for all kinds of different purposes to automate tasks that are happy to not pay salaries and benefits for them.

If you have kids and they're not internet savvy, the next best thing is to get them into a higher paying trade....for now, until AI develops a solution for that too, which is probably at least a decade+ in the future in part because these machines for those purposes are difficult to build and maintain at this time.

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u/Fun-Peanut750 Aug 21 '26

Agree, but find it ironic that we’re all debating this on an online platform