As a student in America's schoolsystem, I can comment. In school, everyone IS a winner. There are no losers. You cannot run when you play "tag" in gym, "tag" is banned at recess and punishable with an office referral, I was banned from running at recess (Yea banned from running at recess); for their BS reason "You're running too fast and making the [fat] kids feel bad". They censored fat and said athletically inclined when they said that to me 6 years ago when I was in 3rd grade.
In class, when you go on a field trip and one person gets in trouble with the place we went (i.e. at the bowling alley some kid knocked down the vending machine to get quarters, another broke a few lanes with rubber balls from vending machines, and others made other, even criminally punishable offenses such as threatening to stab the snack bar worker) The whole grade gets in trouble just the same as the trouble makers do. I don't even go to an inner city school, and my school is a "blue ribbon school" and had the best state exam scores in the state last year. This teaches the kids that do these bad things that it is O.K. and they won't have consequences for doing what they did.
One scenario that I can remember includes a fight at recess;
Two kids were fighting at recess a few years ago, and my friend Jeremy's* mom was a recess monitor. Seeing the fight, she went over and physically pulled the kids apart before they could seriously hurt each other. She was subsequently fired. Yes, FIRED. If she didn't pull them apart, they both could've gotten seriously hurt. Why was she fired? For touching the kids. WHY? She was doing the right thing.
Teachers are not allowed to scold kids if they do something wrong. They have to scold the class. Math teachers are not allowed to help kids individually because "It makes them feel bad when their peers see they're bad at the topic being covered".
This is not all, but what I could think of in the 10 minutes it took me to write this, but this is lunacy. Kids are being raised believing that they're all winners and if someone disagrees with them or offends them in any way, they throw tantrums like little kids.
It's sad to see my peers growing up in their bubbles with their little angelic halos. Well, I shouldn't say bubbles. You should see what video games they play. Despicable, I don't play any. They go to wild parties and do drugs (or so I've heard, I don't go to parties). Oh well. I guess the best thing to do would be to homeschool and discipline your kids the way you see fit. Some of my friends are homeschooled and the way the behave is worlds different than the average kid in public school.
I hope this changes and people man up and accept their mistakes before america becomes a nation of sissies!
Thank you for reading,
mineralized_miner
They get easily offend and throw a hissy fit over some damn magazine article! Meanwhile I'm too busy working in my shop or out detecting to watch these dumb TVs hows or give a flip about some group I've never heard of being offended.
