The recent case of three college girls making fun of a freshman gained public attention. In the published video, three students from a university in Bauru, São Paulo, made fun of a new student for being 44 years old.
The video gained a lot of repercussions last Saturday, the 11th, the same day it was recorded during the first days back to school at the institution. This ended up causing the Ministry of Education to pronounce on the matter, obviously repudiating the act.
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There is a taboo that university studies need to start at the age of 17, along with the age of the entrance exam, so that at the age of 20 the student is properly formed and stable when he reaches the age of 40.
However, life prospects around the world do not follow this pattern and age is no longer considered in these cases. Being at university over 40, as MEC has proven, is obviously common.
In contrast to the opinion of colleagues, the Higher Education Census, belonging to the MEC (Ministry of Education), shows that 599,977 university students are over 40 years of age.
In the last decade, registration has increased by 171.1% since 2012. In the Federal District, in 2021, the increase was of almost 30 thousand students in the same age group.
The practice of “ageism” is real and began to be rethought after the case was taken to the media. Many people are hindered by the imposition of being too old to fulfill dreams, such as, for example, entering a university to have a profession.
Psychotherapist Helena Abdalla states that the condition of characterizing a person as “too old” to be in a university fits the type of prejudice.
For the specialist, the concept of discrimination is based on intolerance, on the prejudice that people over 40 cannot do something, showing that they are incompetent and incapable of doing so done.
In many of these cases, they are people who did not have the opportunity to enter higher education and had to postpone their dream of having a degree.
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