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The baisse du niveau is something people have been complaining of since a long time ago. However, the students themselves are not necessarily the ones being blamed but often that's the education system, against the teacher's will.
Revue internationale de l'enseignement, 1881
Francisque Sarcey, L'étudiant de Paris, 1883
Jean-Baptiste Renaud, L'idéologie des sujets du bac, 2002
Comité Laïcité République, 2013
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There's a split related to socio-economical developments:
There are also splits according to everyday practices: e.g., 70-80s was a period when breastfeeding of newborns was discouraged - many of those born in that period were raised on artificial milk. Nowadays the breastfeeding is considered beneficial, and this produces clashes between young parents and older medical professionals who may be unable to provide the necessary guidance or even discourage breastfeeding. Sometimes the clash is indirect: between the young people and the young medical professionals who learned from the books by written by the older generation.
Disclaimer: these are just observations of a foreigner living in France. They do not universally apply to all social groups.
Update: A typical poster about different values of the generations, widely shared in social nets:
(This specific image was borrowed here.)
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One, relatively, recent trend is the so-called Phénomène Tanguy.
Le phénomène Tanguy est un phénomène social selon lequel les jeunes adultes tardent à se séparer du domicile familial. Cette dénomination vient du film Tanguy, d'Étienne Chatiliez, dont le personnage éponyme s'enferme dans ce type de situation. Une nouvelle expression est ainsi apparue pour désigner la classe d'âge de ces jeunes gens : la génération Tanguy.
Le film est sorti en 2001.
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See also
https://www.cairn.info/revue-agora-debats-jeunesses-2008-3-page-40.htm