America’s Worst Generation Is Dumber Than Us, Research Confirms
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/06/americas-worst-generation-is-dumber-than-us-research/
Generation Z has shown a quantifiable, documented decline in foundational cognitive and physical skills, including mathematical logic, verbal reasoning, visual problem-solving, and baseline physical fitness, driven largely by the displacement of deep-focus activities by thousands of hours of digital consumption.
Pride parades, protests for open borders, and a war on oil are now considered replacements for reading, writing, and reasoning. In fact, if the powers-that-be decide that inclusion and climate outweigh math and science, then Gen Z is way ahead.
Don’t you feel foolish now for believing Gen Z was becoming dumber? They are actually evolving into socially aware, inclusive beings.
Three factors correlate with the timeline of declining scores: the establishment and expansion of the Department of Education, the replacement of textbooks with EdTech in classrooms, and the displacement of academic instruction time by Social-Emotional Learning curricula. No peer-reviewed study establishes causation in either direction, but what the data does establish is that every major institutional intervention coincides with flat or declining performance at dramatically increased cost.