What modern children are brilliant at :

* Forgetting stuff. They can understand a concept one day, cope with all the examples given, work out questions independently. Next day: boom! It's all gone.
* Not listening. As in:
Teacher: “Now do questions 1 to 3 on page 140 in your class jotter, working independently.”
Within one minute...
Pupil 1: “What questions do we have to do?”
Pupil 2: “Which page?”
Pupil 3: “Is that homework?”
Pupil 4: “Do I do this in the back of my notes jotter?”
Pupil 5 “Are we doing this in groups?”
....the list goes on.
* Never bringing a pencil to class. Going to school today? Not expecting to have to write anything down then? No need for a writing implement....