Are students spoonfed these days?

Students today are being starved for an "education". They are not taught anything meaningful or, more importantly, how to think for themselves, so they can actually learn something worthwhile. They must regurgitate the "party line" so to speak so the horrible schools will "look good". It is a pathetic state of affairs, with innocent children being deliberately dumbed-down and used as hostage by the public school system so that they can get more political advantage and more money for less "education". We have lots of stupid and greedy teachers and administrators abusing our children for their own gain and it's disgusting. And most parents don't either understand or care what is happening to their own children.

I don't think it's a matter of being spoonfed. I do teach and I find that there are far more distraction than studying that happens in a student's life. I think it's the parents' problem for babying their kids too much. What could a teacher do if the students themselves won't cooperate? Believe me, if I stop being compassionate and not be a little lenient, nobody in my classes could pass! I task them to read a chapter (when in my time we'd read 5 chapters in one night!) then the next day, they'd say that they were too stressed or their books were left in the school locker. I mean, what!? So it's not about spoonfeeding. It's about having no more discipline and perseverance on anything.

Yes,even the pupils are lack of the activeness of the things you mentioned above.And sometimes they do actions so slowly even when they have to do something of everyday! Outside they are having the party of the Children's Day.When the children had to stand up to salute,they slacked off very much.The teacher who's presiding had to say "Please stand up!" so many times!