> The kids here are getting dumber, to the point that it has become a national crisis now

This might be a common problem.  We don't use the school system so everything is just observation and anecdotes, I do hear a lot along these lines.  Over here it's complaints that a lot of the kids getting passed out barely have acceptable language and maths basics never mind anything else. As far as I can tell it seems that somehow everyone having the right to access education (which I agree with) somehow became conflated with everyone having the right to graduate with passing grades regardless of how they did (um?).

In our case here it's probably fostered or at the very least not helped by the participation award culture we have here, I don't know if that's a problem over there.  

Good luck with the NFT sales, hope you make a few huge ones :D

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