Yet, Obama won in 2008 by huge margins. The youth can vote, the elderly just vote more.
There are age effects (i.e. members of every generation were young once) and generational effects (i.e. there are differences between Boomers, Xers, Millenials and now Zoomers at same ages). I was talking more about the latter.
There is no doubt the Pandemic plays a big role in how Gen Z has developed, given that they were in school (college for geriatric Zs but going all the way to elementary for the younger end of that cohort) during the Pandemic shutdowns.
I am sure Dobbs will have its effect on them as well. Younger Boomers, Xers and Millennials did not have to worry about getting a legal abortion if pregnant in their teens or early 20s.
"Be"? Did you take an online English class?
I be[sic] not the one whining. The ones whining be[sic] those who signed a petition about their NYC Orgo class being too difficult because they be[sic] used to easy online classes.
The "crybabies" these days are taking much more advanced classes in High School.
They are not! I mean, some kids are taking more advanced classes. AP, IB. But those are not likely the crybabies signing the petition.
After all, only 80 out of 350 students in Professor Jones' Orgo class signed the petition complaining the class was "too hard".
Don't mistake what you read on blogs as representing what is happening in the classroom.
It's not blogs. It was reported by many outlets, including New York Times.
And there is my own observation of an example of US education system getting dumbed down. I know two brothers. Both on a preMed track. Both went to the same local college - no NYU, not even a flagship state university, but an also-ran mid-tier public university.
Anyway, they both took general chemistry about four years apart. The elder's class was all right - not the difficulty of a comparable class at Tech or Emory of course, but they went through all the major topics. The younger's post-pandemic Gen Chem 1 and 2 classes - thought by two different professors, so it's not just one bad apple - skipped chapters like parts of bonding, gas laws, colligative properties, parts of thermodynamics, reaction mechanisms and all of redox/electrochemistry. How can you pass Chemistry and not cover something as fundamental as oxidation and reduction? Which is why standardized testing like MCAT is so important I guess.
Even grade schools are managing more difficult educations in math, teaching application of math skills much earlier than when I was in school longer ago than I want to admit.
For some. And I wonder how much of that was undone by Pandemic learning loss even for them.
Fuck! Shitting on the "younger generation" is so old... it is Biblical!
Socratic even! And old it may be, but sometimes it fits. Even though, I blame the hapless NYU admins (and admins of that local college I shall not name and shame here even though it would be deserved) much more than the kids.