Is Our Generation Is My Generation Getting Worst?

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My generation is getting worst by the minute. And we need to make a stop to that. Our mastering literacy skills is not very good and this could impact our future and the whole U.S. And our reading, speech, and writing are not very so great and should be more enhance in our generation. Our generation is so focus on our technology instead of schools and jobs. And that probably will affect our generation and our future.
I will be talking about our reading. And I feel like our reading skills are getting worst by every year. And I feel like we should enhance our reading skills and enhance everything in our generation. And the things in middle school we are learning is things that Genx has already learned about in elementary school. And I feel like

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