AIBU to not understand why colleges are more supportive to younger adults?

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I have just started an access course and I'm in my 30s. When I joined, I remember them saying "oh you don't need to fill that form out" it was a safeguarding/pastoral support form, and I'd fully understand if it was just for 16-18s but 19 year olds, 20 year olds, etc. had to fill it out, even if it said requires no support etc.

Why the heck is this? I don't care but I hate that they seem to think the younger adults need more support. They're also adults.

The brain fully matures around age 25. They might be adults but they are also prime age for developing certain MH issues and they need pastoral support.

Although you should have filled the form too. I needed pastoral support in my degree in my 30s.

They don’t wake up on their 18th birthday as a fully formed adult!

They are still vulnerable and need direction

I get that but it just seems odd to pick and choose which adults get support or not. Surely they should just ask everyone?

maybe they were not specifically speaking about you not having to fill out the form but that it was voluntary and not a mandatory form that needed to be submitted??
they have given everyone a form, your choice whether to access support or not.

No they took it off all the older ones on the table at enrolment... It came in the pack and she went round and collected it from all the older people in the group.

I teach adults. The young adults often have problems i can help them solve. They are barely older than my own kids, they are away from home for the first time, they need basic pastural care. They lose their wallets, or get into trouble with landlords, or bunk off class, or spend money they dont have. If this is the first time they've cocked up in this particular way they're not sure how to solve it. They appreciate a competant adult pointing them in the right direction.
I also offer support to my older students, of course. But tbh they're less likely to be phased by the basic stuff. The stuff that phases a 30+ yr old is probably stuff I'm unqualified to help with.

Having said that, they shouldn't differentiate like that.