Obligatory Sold a Story podcast link.
I can't help but feel that a lot of this is deliberate, the end result of decades of dismantling the public education system to further divide kids into the upper class in private schools, religious fundamentalists in home schooling, and everyone else abandoned to keep the population uneducated and in worse economic precarity.
Somebody please tell me that the kids are alright 
I have a story of when I was working with someone on a class project over Discord and I asked them to send me a screenshot of something. They said they didn't know how to take screenshots, and eventually they had to e-mail me a picture of their screen taken using their phone. This was a programming class BTW.
How can someone even hope to survive a programming class in this day and age without being able/willing to Google how to accomplish basic tasks?