OT: liberal soccer - I just don't believe it

I am a college teacher.

Occasionally students I have praised for genuine accomplishment will stay after class and ask "Did you really mean that?" They explain that they have been praised so often for nothing in high school that they think it's all a joke, and they don't believe me when I praise them. (I only tell them they've done a good job when they really have.)

It's a mistake to think anything but the very stupidest kids are fooled by self-esteem practices.
 
Good Evening All-

Shaking my head in dismay....

These kids will grow up to play "Best Ball Golf," which is where the foursome all tee-off and then you play from the point of the best ball.

Communist Golf would be a better name....

Regards,

~ Blue Jays ~
All-State H.S. Varsity Soccer (years ago!)
Collegiate Varsity Soccer
 
When we next need young warriors to defend our Constitutional Republic, they will be desperatly few. So many raised by the socialist school system and so few who have learned the lessons of our founding fathers.

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Sam I am, grn egs n packin

Nikita Khrushchev predicted confidently in a speech in Bucharest, Rumania on June 19, 1962 that: " The United States will eventually fly the Communist Red Flag...the American people will hoist it themselves."
 
I played soccer growing up in the fifties in Germany, where the Germans wanted to beat Americans at all costs. And I mean we got our a$$es handed to us with a bow on top many times. As Paratrooper said, we quickly toughened in mind, body and spirit. Then when young adulthood arrived and I went into the service, things like Basic Military Training, Survival School, marriage (ha!) etc., seemed like a revisit to lessons learned. The lessons learned file is still open and growing.

I'm disgusted with the egalitarian direction our chidren's education and upbringing has taken. If losing doesn't matter, neither does winning. Remember, they will populate the government in a few years and the debate will be over. We'll just be a non-voting member of the EU.

[This message has been edited by sensop (edited May 07, 2000).]
 
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