[Alumni-chat] Lord of the Flies

[hopeless (debra_good at yahoo.com)]

Bob:

I've been advised not to reply to you.

Deb

>>Don't get me wrong.  I am not blaming the students.  I don't even have much contact with current students but the students from the past 10 or 20 years who are most vocal on the chats appear, with a few exceptions, politically naive, poorly educated with inadequate analytical and writing skills (which may be a function of the technology) and lack an understanding of both the business and academic worlds.  I am very bothered by the fact that they do not appear to be independent thinkers and seem to be easily led due to their susceptibility to politically leftist rhetoric.
>Deb,
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>Really?  Who or what posts specifically demonstrate the pattern you describe of being "politically naive, poorly educated, with inadequate and writing skills...and a lack of understanding of both the business and academic worlds?"  Are there examples you can cite?  Do you mean "In my opinion", is there a deeper analysis, or are there perhaps measures of these criteria?
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>If anyone is interested, I have a half dozen first-year papers from this past spring that I can send you electronically.  They are among the most sophisticated I've seen, and they'll knock the socks off any stereotypes about "the students of today".
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>Bob