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Originally Posted by MSS
I often wonder if some members here ever meet young people. I have been dealing with youngsters straight out of uni for many years. They have all been extremely competent, polite and a pleasure to have around as young/aspiring professionals. For the past 3 years I have worked with 16/17 year old students at college and apart from a few, the majority have been worldly wise. The best 1/3 of each year have worked extremely hard to achieve their absolute best including attending optional online lessons with myself during school holidays, evenings and so on.
I cannot say the same about all the grown ups that I come across. They all think they are worldly wise, they know everyone else's job better than the person doing the job, they are opinionated and generally anti-social. The worrying thing is that I belong to this age group!  |
I have a reasonable pool of folks in my family to use to try to get some sort of assessment.--From my wife and I downwards there are around 50 of us. ( That includes eight very young great. great grandchildren.
The slightly elder ones need to be surgically removed from phones and computers at meal times.-----
PS. Forgot to mention we have Chinese, Indian, Australian, African, English, Scots, Welsh and Eritreans in that lot.
( In-laws and Outlaws.---) Even some Northeners.