COLLEGE KIDS ARE REALLY FUCKING STUPID

And I don't mean in an academic way. I don't know how they do in class, but I know how they do in common sense sorts of situations...and they suck.
Example one: We are doing a remodel on a busy office, the office has been temporarily relocated to another floor, there are copius flyers posted everywhere in and around the renovation area. At least three times a day a student would wander in and ask where XXX was. We would point to the flyer on the FUCKING entrance and they would grunt and wander off, usually in the wrong direction.
Example two: We are currently remodeling an student information center in another building, Posted plainly on the FUCKING entrance is a sign that says "closed for remodeling, please go to room XXX for assistance. We were interrupted four times today by students wondering where the information technology help desk is.
Jeezie Pete! What's wrong with these kids? Are they on the pipe or what? I keep hearing about the academic top 10 percent gaining entrance from high school automatically ( in Texas ). And there in is, I think, the problem. Texas schools are geared towards the TAKs test these days, and everything is tied into it and how well students do on it.It's the defacto litmus test for academic achievement. The students can't progress to the next grade unless they pass. Teachers are evaluated on how well their students do on it. Schools are judged compliant or not based on the scores of this test. Funding decisions are based on it. Percs are based on it. So the cirriculum is geared toward passing the test.
I'm afraid what wer'e ending up with is a bunch of kids who can pass a test, but can't cross the street or navigate a credit card machine at the store, or know how to make a deposit with a cash back at the bank without suffering an anxiety attack.
Forget conversion to the metric system, I think we need to convert to a multiple choice system...for the sake of humanity.
Meh...dumbasses. No common sense...NONE.