Life Lessons?
Smoke Eater has a post over at The Wide Awakes about how a man that stole a few cars, threatened numerous people, lead the police on chase with a hostage, and then called his actions a poltical statement. Smoke Eater thinks that the justificaton of such activities start early on, due to how society treats kids today. From Smoke Eater’s post -
Young people today are brought up being shielded from EVERYTHING except what they should be shielded from. Schools will not let teachers use red ink becaue it might hurt a student’s feelings. Every student who even shows up for a contest gets a ribbon. Practices like this are causing this problem, because children are being taught that they do not have to work for ANYTHING, but when they get to the real world, where they DO HAVE TO WORK for things, they are confused and crap like this happens. So, how do we fix this, start failing students who cannot pass their grade, stop giving awards for simply showing up, and bring back the red ink (I know I saw a lot of red ink in my days in school).
Give Smoke Eaters post a read here and see what you think.
