Apples and Trees

[jessmarimba]

Hey, Sarah? Those law school students are probably about my age. We aren't all like that. Please don't stereotype me!

[crazycanuck]

V..some parents just don't get it.

Acutally, our profs state at the beginning of the year that they will aim to respond to our emails within 2 business days. End of story. However...one prof stated that he'll always answer first emails from year students as they're some of the most important .

Jess..some of the young people your age in my classes are a PAIN in the $*%$&*$& behind. If i have to do any more group work with people under the age of 25, i'll ask the prof if i can do it on my own.

[maillotpois]

Hey, Sarah? Those law school students are probably about my age. We aren't all like that. Please don't stereotype me!

I won't - thanks for pointing out that not all can be painted with the same brush.

But - ETA, I guess I really meant not so much "entitled generations" as in a specific age group, but more of an entitled mentality. The parents in V's class are probably closer to my age than the law students (and you, jess), yet they have that mentality as well. I didn't mean to imply it is an age thing.

[Selkie]

I won't - thanks for pointing out that not all can be painted with the same brush.

But - ETA, I guess I really meant not so much "entitled generations" as in a specific age group, but more of an entitled mentality. The parents in V's class are probably closer to my age than the law students (and you, jess), yet they have that mentality as well. I didn't mean to imply it is an age thing.

But you have a point. I supervised a lot of people in the "entitled generation" and many of them behaved this way. Not ALL of them, but a fair number of them. It is a generational thing, in my experience, even though there people in other age groups who act this way. No offense intended. In a lot of cases, I think it's a function of how you were raised and under what socioeconomic circumstances.

[Crankin]

What Veronica is describing is a perpetual issue for teachers. It doesn't really matter where you teach. It's not just a generational thing, although I must say, if helicopter parenting gets any worse, it will turn into a generational thing.
I always told my own kids, "unless you come home with bruises from a beating by your teacher, I am always going to believe the teacher."
Of course, that was based on my experience of parents never believing me!
No wonder my "perfect" 12 year old started crying hysterically the moment we were leaving for our conference. He had neglected to tell me that the day before, his teacher heard him call her a "*****."

[PamNY]

Hey, Sarah? Those law school students are probably about my age. We aren't all like that. Please don't stereotype me!

Just wait till you are older and it will all work out. I roll around laughing when I hear the shock! horror! stories about the younger generation.

Because nowadays, those stories are being told by people twenty years younger than I am, and they do NOT want to hear that the exact same shock! horror! was expressed about their generation.

I always assume that any sentence containing the world "generation" is, at best, a half-truth.