Per Harvard: Gen X is 1965-1984, Millennials is 1986- 2004, Boomers 1945-1964. Thoughts?

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1979

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Anonymous wrote:1981 here. Definitely feel like I’m caught between the two generations because of technology. I remember going to the library to do book reports and history reports when I was a kid because I needed to use actual books and the Dewey Decimal System. But I also had AOL for all four years of high school (1996-2000).

It’s insane how much changed in about 10 years from 1989 to 1999. It was much more change than compared to the 2009 to 2019 period.

Plus bushs NCLB- no child left behind- annihilated the public schools’ extracurriculars, tripled testing and resulted in tons of teacher retirees and new math and English k-8 curricula. That was a big change. My youngest sibling didn’t have any of the AP teachers I had, they all retired, and band and some electives moved to after school or out entirely.

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Anyone before 1980 is bad, but there is an acceptable range being born in the 70s

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Anonymous wrote:1981 here. Definitely feel like I’m caught between the two generations because of technology. I remember going to the library to do book reports and history reports when I was a kid because I needed to use actual books and the Dewey Decimal System. But I also had AOL for all four years of high school (1996-2000).

It’s insane how much changed in about 10 years from 1989 to 1999. It was much more change than compared to the 2009 to 2019 period.

Plus bushs NCLB- no child left behind- annihilated the public schools’ extracurriculars, tripled testing and resulted in tons of teacher retirees and new math and English k-8 curricula. That was a big change. My youngest sibling didn’t have any of the AP teachers I had, they all retired, and band and some electives moved to after school or out entirely.

Yes - how do we fix this? Obama passed an education bill that was supposed to fix this but it didn't. How do we return to the education of the 80s and 90s?

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Anonymous wrote:I've heard a lot of early 80s people talk about themselves as a shoulder generation or "the Oregon trail generation"
It is sort of a mini-generation just because of the timing of computers in their lives.
But other than that, those dates seem legit.

+1

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Anonymous wrote:1981 here. Definitely feel like I’m caught between the two generations because of technology. I remember going to the library to do book reports and history reports when I was a kid because I needed to use actual books and the Dewey Decimal System. But I also had AOL for all four years of high school (1996-2000).

It’s insane how much changed in about 10 years from 1989 to 1999. It was much more change than compared to the 2009 to 2019 period.

Plus bushs NCLB- no child left behind- annihilated the public schools’ extracurriculars, tripled testing and resulted in tons of teacher retirees and new math and English k-8 curricula. That was a big change. My youngest sibling didn’t have any of the AP teachers I had, they all retired, and band and some electives moved to after school or out entirely.

I was born in 81 and remember middle school sports being cancelled while I was there.

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Anonymous wrote:I prefer Pew Research Center's definitions.

Gen X should go more into the early 1980s. Otherwise fine

Though 1943/4 could start the boomers as men returned for WWII then. Many babies were born on US military bases those years.

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Anonymous wrote:1981 here. Definitely feel like I’m caught between the two generations because of technology. I remember going to the library to do book reports and history reports when I was a kid because I needed to use actual books and the Dewey Decimal System. But I also had AOL for all four years of high school (1996-2000).

It’s insane how much changed in about 10 years from 1989 to 1999. It was much more change than compared to the 2009 to 2019 period.

Plus bushs NCLB- no child left behind- annihilated the public schools’ extracurriculars, tripled testing and resulted in tons of teacher retirees and new math and English k-8 curricula. That was a big change. My youngest sibling didn’t have any of the AP teachers I had, they all retired, and band and some electives moved to after school or out entirely.

Yes - how do we fix this? Obama passed an education bill that was supposed to fix this but it didn't. How do we return to the education of the 80s and 90s?

Common core standards, and the $$$$$$ curriculum boondoggle that followed, was NCLB on steroids bad. We left MCPS

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Anonymous wrote:1981 here. Definitely feel like I’m caught between the two generations because of technology. I remember going to the library to do book reports and history reports when I was a kid because I needed to use actual books and the Dewey Decimal System. But I also had AOL for all four years of high school (1996-2000).

It’s insane how much changed in about 10 years from 1989 to 1999. It was much more change than compared to the 2009 to 2019 period.

Plus bushs NCLB- no child left behind- annihilated the public schools’ extracurriculars, tripled testing and resulted in tons of teacher retirees and new math and English k-8 curricula. That was a big change. My youngest sibling didn’t have any of the AP teachers I had, they all retired, and band and some electives moved to after school or out entirely.

Yes - how do we fix this? Obama passed an education bill that was supposed to fix this but it didn't. How do we return to the education of the 80s and 90s?

Stop making federal standards and let the starts, counties and townships handle their communities.

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Anonymous wrote:George Masnick, of behalf of Harvard puts Generation X in the time frame of 1965 to 1984, Millennials in the time frame of 1986- 2004, and Boomers in the time frame of 1945-1964.

I know lots of people born in the early 80s prefer to identify as millennial, and "generations" has become a part of all areas of popular culture..

How old are you and how do you identify?

https://www.jchs.harvard.edu/blog/defining-the-generations-redux

This is fine with me. Younger Gen X will always straddle the analog- digital divide well. We all got our first email accounts, cell phones, internet everything in late high school or college and didn’t have to deal with stupid social media.

The way I explained it to my kids is that they get a piece of computer equipment and they can expect it to work. I got my first computer in the late 80s and had to make it work. We'd go to compusa and buy a new computer game and there was a better than 50% chance that we'd never be able to get it working. We'd get a new modem and it would take hours to get everything up and running.

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Anonymous wrote:I prefer Pew Research Center's definitions.

Gen X should go more into the early 1980s. Otherwise fine

Though 1943/4 could start the boomers as men returned for WWII then. Many babies were born on US military bases those years.

Wrong on both counts.

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Anonymous wrote:1981 here. Definitely feel like I’m caught between the two generations because of technology. I remember going to the library to do book reports and history reports when I was a kid because I needed to use actual books and the Dewey Decimal System. But I also had AOL for all four years of high school (1996-2000).

It’s insane how much changed in about 10 years from 1989 to 1999. It was much more change than compared to the 2009 to 2019 period.

Plus bushs NCLB- no child left behind- annihilated the public schools’ extracurriculars, tripled testing and resulted in tons of teacher retirees and new math and English k-8 curricula. That was a big change. My youngest sibling didn’t have any of the AP teachers I had, they all retired, and band and some electives moved to after school or out entirely.

I was born in 81 and remember middle school sports being cancelled while I was there.

What is "middle school sports"?

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2003 and 2004 in my opinion are gen -Z

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Anonymous wrote:I prefer Pew Research Center's definitions.

Gen X should go more into the early 1980s. Otherwise fine

Though 1943/4 could start the boomers as men returned for WWII then. Many babies were born on US military bases those years.

+1

My parents were born in '44 and are Boomers. They were the beginning of the baby boom, but definitely in it, not before.

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Anonymous wrote:George Masnick, of behalf of Harvard puts Generation X in the time frame of 1965 to 1984, Millennials in the time frame of 1986- 2004, and Boomers in the time frame of 1945-1964.

I know lots of people born in the early 80s prefer to identify as millennial, and "generations" has become a part of all areas of popular culture..

How old are you and how do you identify?

https://www.jchs.harvard.edu/blog/defining-the-generations-redux

Why did they leave out 1985?

I was born in 1986 and definitely feel like I’m on the edge between millennial and gen x.

You are millennial for sure, not a bit Gen X.

You’re mighty confident for someone who doesn’t know me at all.

No definition of Gen X includes 1986. Sorry.

I didn’t say I was Gen X. I said I’m kinda in between. It’s a thing. There’s a big difference between my experience and the experience of someone who had a digital childhood. I did not.

I have no idea what you mean when you say "I didn't have a digital childhood." I'm 10 years older than you, and I didn't have a digital childhood. Got my first email address in senior of high school. You must have had email from elementary school, unless you lived under a rock.

I didn’t have email in elementary school. We had computers in the back of the classroom, but e-mail didn’t factor in. This was in Westchester County, NY, so not under a rock.

Whatever. You could have had email, if your parents had allowed it. Your childhood was digital, deal with it. You're not an Xennial or an Oregon Trailer. Just plain old Millennial. I know it's not very cool but it is what it is.

I played Oregon Trail constantly.