Gen Z students are less educated, more depressed and lack values

He also bemoans the evaporation of religious life. While only 2 percent of Americans identified themselves as atheists in 1984, that number was 22 percent by 2020. A college religion professor notes that when he discusses Matthew from the Bible, many students think he s talking about Matthew Perry of Friends. And Luke? His students assume it s the guy from Beverly Hills 90210.  

Religion has been replaced by a mass culture of banality, conformity, and self-indulgence, Adams writes, not to mention an obsession with technology. He notes that in the 1970s, more than 50 percent of high schoolers hung out with friends every day, but by 2020 that number had dropped below 33 percent. Modern high-schoolers regularly forego traditional activities like Friday night football games to hunker down alone, watching Netflix, Hulu, or Disney+. That helps explain why in 2012 49 percent of teens ranked in person as their favorite way to talk but in 2018 only 32 percent did. 

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Smart phones should be banned for kids under 18 like alcohol or tobacco. Sort of kidding not kidding.