Saturday, November 28, 2015

This is one persons opinion, which I don't agree with. This is reverse RACISM. Every thing they have has been given by the "white man". NOW THEY JUST WANT IT ALL, FOR FREE, WITHOUT EARNING IT THEMSELVES ....AND, I AM NOT TO BLAME !!

For thin-skinned college students, we have nobody to blame but ourselves https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/for-thin-skinned-students...

But do such events mean that students have been neglected, as protesters have charged? Or that the school tolerates racism?
Their tantrums are a direct result of our Everybody Gets a Trophy culture

Read more here: http://www.kansascity.com/opinion/opn-columns-blogs/syndicated-columnists/article46534095.html#storylink=cpy


Students stage a sit-in at Georgetown University on Nov. 13 in solidarity with other student protests around the country. (Astrid Riecken/For The Washington Post)


It would be easy to call protesting college students crybabies and brats for pitching hissy fits over hurt feelings, but this likely would lead to such torrents of tearful tribulation that the nation’s university system would have to shut down for a prolonged period of grief counseling.
Besides, it would be insensitive.
 
Instead, let me be the first to say: it’s not the students’ fault. These serial tantrums are direct results of our Everybody Gets a Trophy culture and an educational system that, for the most part, no longer teaches a core curriculum, including history, government and the Bill of Rights.
The students simply don’t know any better.


This isn’t necessarily to excuse them. Everyone has a choice whether to ignore a perceived slight — or to form a posse. But as with any problem, it helps to understand its source. The disease, I fear, was auto-induced with the zealous pampering of the American child that began a few decades ago.


The first sign of the epidemic of sensitivity we’re witnessing was when parents and teachers were instructed never to tell Johnny that he’s a “bad boy,” but that he’s “acting” like a bad boy.


Next, Johnny was handed a blue ribbon along with everyone else on the team even though he didn’t deserve one. This had the opposite effect of what was intended. Rather than protecting Johnny’s fragile self-esteem, the prize undermined Johnny’s faith in his own perceptions and judgment. It robbed him of his ability to pick himself up when he fell and to be brave, honest and hardy in the face of adversity.


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