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A COVID-19 Microgeneration Has Reached College
About the struggles of some young people
In my years of teaching college courses, I’ve never seen more students struggle so much as in the last two years. That’s especially the case this current year. I have a suspicion as to why this is.
One can’t consider everyone in any group as being the same, but there are patterns and tendencies. In my article about generations, I offered a theory to understand generations by identifying major life events occurring at individuals’ most impressionable ages of 5 to 17. Here is that article in full.
The last generation that I named was the COVID-19 generation. The lock downs and high levels of anxiety in 2020 and 2021 took a toll on many people in all age groups. The pandemic probably had a greater affect on young people in their formative years. Using the concept that those formative ages are 5 to 17 years old, we would define the COVID generation as people born between 2003 and 2015. Also in my article, I offered a look to the future.
We will see over the next…
