Our Failing Public School Systems

[Mrs. Foxmeister]

My Dad only had an 8th grade education, but he showed me how to write a ck. He made a good living as a construction worker. Both of my parents lived thru the great depression and they showed me how to save money. I did ask my youngest son who is in college if they showed him how to write a resume in HS. He said yes. All you need is a computer and you can find plenty of examples online. I don't write that many checks anymore, maybe 10 total a year.

both my parents had a high school education, no college but my mama worked in a bank and she learned alot about money and passed that on to me. I passed that on to my daughter and she has a masters in forensic accounting.

My father didn't go to college but he could fix anything. He was from the group of men who if you didn't know how to fix it, you pick up a book or ask a friend how and then do it yourself. Before he got sick in October at the age of 80, he fixed the shingles on his house from Matthew storm that took some off. His response to why he did it is "because nobody else is going to do it and of course I will fix it, I don't want water coming the house or paying someone a large amount of money when I can do it." He passed that on to my son, who has no college degree because of many factors distracting him but he will try to fix anything. He is a millenial too.

So I don't think having a college degree or not having a college degree makes up for the motivation to learn something new if you don't know how to do something. Age or not there are people who are motivated and there are people motivated by external factors not themselves. I think environment has a lot to do with differences including instant gratification for almost anything now, focusing on computers all the time, etc.
I think we learn more from our parents than we realize. It's up to us to decipher the good and the bad. It's up to us to put ourselves in environments to grow and realize if we stay stagnant in one area we need to look at why and its usually because we keep doing to the same thing. Each generation probably has weaknesses but also strengths. Focusing on the strengths is the direction I like to take. I only wish I could be as technologically as advanced as my kids right now. I only hope and pray that use it for good and not bad. So everybody has one thing in common no matter what generation, you are only one choice away from a different life.

 

[Far West]

I always thought Millennials were people born in/between 1985-2004. My youngest son is almost 21, but that article says he isn't a Millennial. He just missed it being born in 1996.

He's a cusper, he will be the bridge between Millennials and iGen. At the same time, those bracket years might shift... these are man made terms and labels.

In the class she also spoke about how for instance if you were on the cusp, and had older siblings, you may have experienced their music and lifestyle, and relate to it more. But what you experienced in true time like 911, or satellite radio, watching TV off the internet, and Google Home shapes your common experiences.

 

[Stellarvore]

I'm allegedly a millenial but I don't feel like one. I can see a lot of both Gen X and Millenials in myself. I was born in 1984. It seems the years they use to define the generations have shifted a few times.