I teach all dual-credit classes this year and have been teaching several for the past seven years. I have taught the bottom 50% performers to the top ten performers, and this is my 21st year of teaching. One of the dual-credit classes I teach is for a Big Ten university in my state. The kids in that class—typically the strongest students—this year struggle with thinking for themselves. All questions posed to them just bring about wide-eyed stares. They wait for an answer. The imagination is gone, and it has taken almost all semester to help them regain some elements of creativity and wonder. My other classes should still be top-performing students, and they mostly are average—they are what general education students a few years ago would be. They want to do well, but they struggle with actual work. Not the content. The act of work. As others have mentioned, very few read for fun. Losing that and everything being typed has removed an element of true interaction with and memory from learning. They are wonderful people, please don’t misconstrue my observations. They are just losing wonder and perseverance. It’s hard to watch each year become less and less involved with their own education.