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Originally Posted by SprinkL3
It bothers me.
I blame educators for these divisions.
When I was a nontraditional middle-aged undergrad, my younger 20-something peers would tell me that I'm taking their peer's spot by going to college late, that I'm robbing them of their Social Security, that I'm slower than them because I'm older and have an older brain. They would cite their professors' statements about older folk.
Meanwhile, in a different world of I/O Psychology, the professor there would cite how "lazy" the younger generations are, how "rude" the younger generations are, how "disrespectful" the younger generations are, how "entitled" the younger generations are.
Then, not too long afterward, the "ok boomer" attitude became a thing. They even said it to the Gen Xers, because they lumped us into some apologetic category.
And all these things stemmed from Gen Xers teaching all the younger ones about these new terms, about social science, about economics, about politics, about ageism, and about divisions.
If it weren't for this cycle of education (stemming from high school on up), all the generations might just get along.
"Indoctrination" is more than CRT; "indoctrination" - defined in some cases as "fragility" from the opponents and "divisive" from the proponents is similar in all judgmental revenge-science theories pinning one social group against the other - and within the context of "education."
So here we are.
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Both I and my husband went to school again later in life. No one ever told us we took someone’s spot or are slow or taking someone else’s social security (how?).
Who are these people who told you that? Were they talking to you directly actually telling you that you have slow brain?
I can’t wrap my mind around it. I know many people who obtain degrees later in life. I’ve never heard them having issues with 20-year olds peers. No one typically cares about college students’ age. Non traditional students isn’t anything unusual and it’s extremely common. Who are these people who care?
In addition college education in the US isn’t free so how can anyone take anyone’s spot? I paid my tuition and John Smith paid his. Both usually owe student loan regardless of age. This is puzzling. What kind of college did you attend where your younger peers spoke like this to you ?