WTF?!? (NSR rant)

[snow_slider]

Two things I heard this morning on the radio have me in a state of utter disbelief:

1. Officials have stopped keeping score for little league games. Apparently little Johnny can't handle the thought of losing, so by not keeping score, there's no loosing team. I thought this was about the worst case of political correctness gone awry until I heard #2.

2. Teachers are being asked to stop using red ink to grade papers. Insead, they are now using purple. Apparently red comes across as too scary and purple is considered "friendlier". What the hell??? If you are scared of all the red ink on your schoolwork, how about working/studying harder?

It seems to me that we (as a nation) are headed towards creating a future generation of absolute wussies.

Sorry for the rant, I now return you to your regularly scheduled programming.

[snowsprite]

That does not surprise me one bit. We ran into that this summer. Nobody is "supposed" to be keeping score. But our little league has ignored that crap. We have a huge scoreboard and everybody knows who's winning and losing.

As for teachers...that's crap regarding the red pen. Things like this make me really angry. If my kid did not have a thick enough skin to deal with a little red pen on his test papers I'd be really worried about him. I mean, really worried.

I see a lot of this with parenting too. I.e., some moms that I know think I am evil personified because I make my 9 year old take out the garbage and be responsible for dealing w/ all the recyclables (oh, and he's supposed to change the kitty litter box too). God forbid he should have to dirty his little hands though. I have literally had some lady say to me "Too bad you work full time, and you have to enlist your son to do this sort of thing at his age. It's not fair to either of you!" LOL

We are going to be a nation of pussies one day if this keeps up. But I am going to have a lot of fun harrassing their little pansy asses when I'm an old biddie in a nursing home some day.

Sprite

[Marmot]

If this thread starter got your blood boiling you should read Tom Brokaw's, "The Greatest Generation". It is all about the old folks in our country that believed in a hard days work, were harder than coffin nails, and had hearts bigger than both their fists.

[CUBUCK]

I second that Marmot. I read that book and now have so much more respect for my grandparenst generation. It really got to me when my dad quoted a passage from the book at his fathers memorial service. They truly represented the american dream.

Now as far as purple pens and little league games without winners and losers go. These kids are going to get mowed over once they get older. Winning and losing are things that everyone needs to learn. The world in general is competitive and peope who grow up like this will surely not "make it"

[Viva]

Sounds like a very bad case of child pyschologists running amok. Spirte, what do other parents have to say about the "purple-policy". Who made this decision? Is it just a local case (i.e., school board)?

Something similar was proposed recently where if a student's spelling looked like the correct word, it wouldn't be marked as incorrect. Among other things, potential damage to self-esteem, creativity, cultural differences were mentioned. Watevr, but its nice to not hav to go to th' trobel of makin the rite speling and gramer.

[Mcwop]

That, and if you recall all the efforts to ban games like dodgeball (we used to call it "sting" - cause in public schol the 18 year olds still in 8th grade could really throw that sucker).

[non grata]

if i didn't have red ink keeping my spazzy, punk ass in line during grade school, i don't know where i'd be right now...

[Egon]

Funny reading this after administrators suggested same thing during my TA training.
Not for grade school students, but for college students.

[A-wreck]

shit like this makes me wonder if it is even worth bringing a child into this world......................

next thing you know there will be a kid sent to prison for pants-ing someone..........

you know what kids need? I do. More John Wayne and Clint Eastwood and less Shrek

[snowsprite]

Originally posted by non grata
if i didn't have red ink keeping my spazzy, punk ass in line during grade school, i don't know where i'd be right now...

Definitely not on an interweb chat board for maggots.

Sprite

[13]

Last I checked, learning to fend for yourself physically and emotionally was a good thing.

[Blurred]

Man, when I was growing up we'd play games like buttball. I remember my friends crying when it was their turn to take their two pitches to the ass.

Can the pussification of America stop already???!!! FUCKKKK!!

[spanky]

Originally posted by snowsprite
We are going to be a nation of pussies one day if this keeps up. But I am going to have a lot of fun harrassing their little pansy asses when I'm an old biddie in a nursing home some day.

Sprite

Wow sprite... Using the "p" word!!! Didn't expect that from you.

[watersnowdirt]

Originally posted by snowsprite


As for teachers...that's crap regarding the red pen. Things like this make me really angry. Sprite

Sprite - I really wish you wouldn't use those "red" faces. It makes me quite scared and uncomfortable. Maybe you could try something in mauve next time. Thank you.

[freshie247]

Thank God I'm not alone on this,
I have written a book that is about 80% comp-ete that is a societal critique about our plunge into P.C. ,B.S. insanity.

Here's some excerpts.

Negative reinforcement is extremely important to the proper development of a child. Do you remember when you were a child, standing next to the stove , looking at the glowing hot burner on the stove, I do . You’re staring at it, knowing that if you touch it, it will burn you, hurt you, but somehow you need more reinforcement for this learned response . You’re entranced, in an almost dream like state , you reach out to touch it, ssssssst, aaahhhhh !!!!You get burned,& the blinding hot flash of pain envelops you. This is a Lesson learned in a way that tends to stick with you, you never want to touch a red-hot burner again. This is such a valuable learning process. The current mind set of parents today is that they don’t want their children to ever experience pain , suffering, or negative reinforcement. They over protect them from most of life’s hard lessons . So when a large percentage of these children get older & in situations where there parents can’t shield them from the risk of failure & they fail, it is catastrophically huge to them instead of being another useful learning from a mistake . For me,women seem to be the only exception to the rule of learned behavior. I don’t seemed to be able to get burned enough to learn my lesson ,I guess the urge to procreate in this case happens to be stronger than my survival instinct.

More kids today, especially males seem to view failure as the impetus for going on a killing rampage. This kind of "I’m going to kill as many people as I can & then myself as retribution for my failures & the social injustices I have endured " mentality appears to be a new splinter of the deranged value system that grows along with the rest of the new P.C. thought systems. Tom Baker as Doctor Who said, “What’s wrong with failure, huh ? It’s one of life’s most basic freedoms ! ” Yes I know it’s hard to standby & watch your children make mistakes, but they can’t learn with out making them. Creating a stress free environment may be desirable in theory, but in practice, the strongest, most productive, life-forms that are most likely to survive & pass on their genes , have experienced stress, & that stress has made them what they are. Without stress there is no reason for evolution. I guess I should add creationists to the equation . Obviously too much stress, or more importantly, the wrong kind of stress, is not beneficial. It is unfortunately a long rehearsal & under-study for this play we call life. There are many lines to learn, emotions to understand, many props you must master before you can star in your role. If your children can’t function properly on their own during times of duress , all the sheltering hasn’t helped them ,it’s hurt them. My dad used to say the difference between an amateur & a professional is that a professional rarely makes the same mistake twice,& never makes it three times.

[bad_roo]

http://www.cnn.com/interactive/compu...atari.2600.jpg

Blame the Atari.

[non grata]

http://a248.e.akamai.net/f/248/5462/...23037_pc_6.jpg

pure evil .

[snowsprite]

Buttball?! Oh my...
WSD ... LOL!

Sprite

[bad_roo]

When kids should have been out smashing snails with tennis racquets and vandalising cars they were instead indoors seized up over THIS

http://www.digitpress.com/dpsightz/a...0/pacman-2.gif

Those kids are now the parents.

[The AD]

Originally posted by snow_slider
1. Officials have stopped keeping score for little league games. Apparently little Johnny can't handle the thought of losing, so by not keeping score, there's no loosing team. I thought this was about the worst case of political correctness gone awry until I heard #2.

I think you mean losing, or maybe I should say losing

EDIT: ok, that second one says "losing" but it's in purple and doesn't show up against the background!

[Stu Gotz]

Are the Jesuits still busting academic skulls or have they gone soft also?

I have a number of friends who were on the receiving end of a Jesuit prep school edumacation and they have some interesting stories to tell.

[The AD]

Originally posted by Stu Gotz
Are the Jesuits still busting academic skulls or have they gone soft also?

Have the Jesuits gone soft? Slow pitch!

[Plakespear]

Originally posted by BlurredElevens
Man, when I was growing up we'd play games like buttball. I remember my friends crying when it was their turn to take their two bitches up the ass.

hehheheheheheh
http://j-walkblog.com/blog/images2/beavis2.jpg

[Stu Gotz]

I think you could have used the second sentence also - "on the receiving end."

My whole post was an unintended slow pitch.

[bad_roo]

http://www.atari-computermuseum.de/pics/thumbs/cx40.jpg