Issues & Challenges:

Discussion question for the e-mailing list

"What do you see as the issues and challenges facing the Gen X student?"
"What do you see as the issues and challenges in teaching the Gen X student?"

Generation X presents with significant issues and challenges as identified in the following negative stereotypes:

• Entitled to easy success and good grades -little motivation to work to achieve success.
• Blame teachers of the system for failure
  
• Don't trust authority
  
• Slackers, lazy
  
• Don't read the book or take notes
  
• Don't see the need for buying the book
  
• Rude, blunt, cynical, skeptical
  
• Won't attend class unless points are deducted for absences
• Disengaged, short attention span
  
• Complainers, whiners
  
• Less respectful of rules and established policies
  
• Filled with self-esteem but bereft of knowledge
  
• Lack a solid moral foundation, right and wrong are relative, everythingdepends of the situation
  
• Ambiguous "whatever" attitude
  
• Self-focused, crave attention
  
• Cheated or victimized if "I" don't get what "I" want