Week Three Post One

I was also in my middle school today and noticed much of the same dress habits as Jeff. The students dress exactly like college students, or is it the other way around? Students seem no more mature than any other time I've interacted with the early adolescents, but I have noticed as well that college students do not look like young adults. They look no more prepared for life. The attending-class-wearing-pajamas look is still strong, but even their dress clothes don't speak to the fact that within a few years they will be professionals. I wonder how we are preparing students for life if they aren't progressing towards adulthood by the age of eighteen. Students (and adults) will always slack, but as people inch towards responsibility it seems they should get better at hiding it, or at least realize how offensive and immature it appears to others. I know when I am doing something I shouldn't, so I at least make the effort to appear polite. But like the middle school students, college students aren't concerned with how adults view them. These issues do make me concerned that students are not moving towards adulthood with the right tools. Granted, I'm still on the fence whether my job is to teach students how to dress and act like adults. But I am interested in teaching them to speak and write beyond that of an eighth grader.