Posted on 10/01/2015 2:18:07 PM PDT by dynachrome
A year ago I received an invitation from the head of Counseling Services at a major university to join faculty and administrators for discussions about how to deal with the decline in resilience among students. At the first meeting, we learned that emergency calls to Counseling had more than doubled over the past five years. Students are increasingly seeking help for, and apparently having emotional crises over, problems of everyday life. Recent examples mentioned included a student who felt traumatized because her roommate had called her a “bitch” and two students who had sought counseling because they had seen a mouse in their off-campus apartment. The latter two also called the police, who kindly arrived and set a mousetrap for them.
Faculty at the meetings noted that students’ emotional fragility has become a serious problem when in comes to grading. Some said they had grown afraid to give low grades for poor performance, because of the subsequent emotional crises they would have to deal with in their offices.
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On a moral level it is called “Degeneracy.”
I heard Rush talking about this yesterday.
I’ve seen this progression over many years now. Schools have mandatory “welcome weeks” of some sort for freshmen and new students, teaching them basics of self-care that they should have been taught at home years before. It’s really pathetic.
Given how they know most students in colleges are now women, I am surprised they would let this insult slam piece slip through their feminist filters.
College is now Ranger school. Look for lower standards coming to you soon.
The predictable consequences of enforced “self-esteem”, “everybody gets a trophy”, and other equality-of-outcome horsehockey.
As a senior computer engineer, I really dread the impending influx of these idiots. The servers aren’t going to care one whit if their crash interrupted Special Snowflake’s beauty sleep; they’ll still page out and SS will be expected to go fix the problem without complaint. In that respect, maybe the coming robot revolution won’t be such a horrible thing, since it will prevent these nincompoops from ever entering the workforce; they’ll take their rightful place in society, and literature has already thoughtfully provided us with a term to label them with:
Eloi
Morlocks unite!
For anyone who hasn't seen the thread:
College Students Call Police, Seek Counseling After Seeing Mouse
bunch of pussy’s more like it. All this PC BS isn’t helping either. This generation is a lost cause I fear.
K - 12th grade has now become a “school of hard knocks” free zone.
Freshman in college is the first experience with being “victimized”.
Oh, she called me “a lamebrain”....
WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA...
I want my mommy and my high school homeroom teacher...
WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA...
I need a psychologist or I’ll be scared for life!
Wimps. I don’t understand how people can survive without a thick skin.
I wonder how many 9th place ribbons these jerks have in their dorm room.
I work on a college campus, and this resonates with the people I deal with daily.
Now women have alienated men; so, women pay professionals for the needed protection.
>>and two students who had sought counseling because they had seen a mouse in their off-campus apartment.<<
When I was in college it would have been “MOUSE HUNT ON!!” and we would have popped a few brewskies and made a special rule not to kill it unless absolutely necessary and shame to someone.
Then after the capture we would have all taken it to a field, released it and toasted its new freedom with whiskey and/or vodka with a beer back.
These little “award for participating” snowflakes (best name ever) will never make it in the rough and tumble real world.
I am so glad I retired early from the university earlier this year.
Being a 55 year-old gardener is a good thing
Yo. Cupcake. Watch the movie "Gran Torino." Watch how Clint tells the little asian how guys talk to each other.
Those were my college days. And high school.
Heck, that's how my mom talked to me.
When you tell kids that every time you don’t like something someone else does, it is:
A. deliberately malicious on the other person’s part, such as motivated by hidden hate
B. something you have the right to over-react to
C. something you can demand they never ever do again if you are offended enough
then you get people who think they have the right to deny others freedom of speech and belief by throwing a temper tantrum.
And they end up walking on egg shells, because they are surrounded by people who like the power trip of blowing up and scaring people who use the wrong noun, adjective or pronoun.
And the power ends up in the hands of the bullies and the crazies. You give them the ability to bully those who use a complement that you decide to find offensive or give bullies the ability to bully others for not meeting an ever-changing and more extreme set of PC metrics.
They are creating chekists and people terrified into silence by them, along with empowered nut given the power to define what is socially acceptable.
I’m all for letting them fend for themselves-if they are 18, they are adults, and should be learning from experience, so don’t give them counseling for every little thing, and let them develop coping skills. If the ones who can’t handle everyday situations aren’t able to deal and go whining to mommy and daddy-I believe that is called social Darwinism, isn’t it?
They have always had helicopter parents on hand to deal with all these inconvenient details of living real-time.
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