No. I don’t generalize at all. I use the normal curve which tells me that there is a great variation in the expression of the human genome. I would never generalize by age or by thinking all, many, most kids are like the ones I know.
What I can say from the kids I have known through my profession, my circles of work & activities is that kids are capable of much more than most people expect of them.
Well, you don’t have the sample size I do, so your observations are interesting, but not definitive. And certainly not enough to make me abandon all the conclusions I have come to after observing 2,000 13 year olds. I know enough about this stage of human development to say with some assurance that putting too many of them into a college setting with adults who have paid to be there will cause problems, and I stand by that prediction. You are not required to agree with me, by the way. This is all just people giving their opinions on an idea that is never going to be implemented anyway, so... have the last word, if you like. I have noticed that parents always think they have to have the last word when talking to teachers, so have at it.