The Generation Gap on DU is real

[Sympthsical]

186. I'm back in school after 20 years

First degree in early 00's and I've been back for a little over two years now to become a nurse practitioner.

It's insane how different my English courses were vs. what is happening now. As you said, English is just not a thing. Complete thoughts and sentences. Complex ideas. Being able to make an argument.

However, there is also a marked difference in socialization. The ability to talk to one another, work together in a cooperative environment, speak during class to any meaningful degree, express original thoughts and synthesize material.

There is a thought I've heard from more than one of my current professors who think people maybe should have been held back a grade after Covid lockdowns. It became rapidly clear that very little learning was taking place remotely. As someone who supervised my nieces and nephews during that, I can say will the full authority of experience that a lot of their teachers absolutely checked the fuck out during that. Neat little mini-vacation for them. And I am still pissed about it. There were some stellar teachers during that, but they were not in the majority.

You can't just not teach kids then send them off to college, and yet that seems to be what we have just done.

And we're not even discussing what's going on with younger kids and the developmental delays. That's a whole other kettle of fish.