Colleges making up for parenting failures
This is what happens when people grow up depending on themselves rather than on God. The ungodly who have taken over government education have not done this country any favors. The youth suicide rate is increasing and the middle aged are dying in such numbers from drug abuse that this scourge is finally gaining attention.
Welcome to Snowflake U. Rah. Rah. Rah. OOOOOoooooo, gotta go to my safe space...
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I remember reading somewhere that the average college student of the 2010s is about as disturbed as the average psychiatric patient of the 1950s.
Normal home economics (consumer education, parenting, cooking, etc.) classes could help with this sort of thing. Normal as in not a heavy emphasis in sex ed. The classes are usually the first to go in a school budget crunch.
Advancement Via Individual Determination aka The Little Engine That Could.
This is also known as AVID - to help students develop the skills they need to be successful in college.
I thought all the years in school prior were to do so. You know. Reading, Writing, Arithmetic, History, Shop class.
Now they have Common Core where 2 + 2 does not equal 4 anymore, dropped history or just saying the USA is bad and there are no shop classes. http://www.usnews.com/education/blogs/high-school-notes/2015/02/09/3-answers-for-high-school-parents-about-avid-classes
When something becomes an acronym then you know it is useless.
Company HR person: I see here on your resume that you have a degree in Advancement Via Individual Determination
Just what skill is that? Isn’t that suppose to be high school?
You misspelled resume.......
A new principal at Robbinsdale Middle School
http://post.mnsun.com/2014/07/18/a-new-principal-at-robbinsdale-middle-school/
He said he was interested in the job because of the school’s diverse student population and its “best practice” programs, which include International Baccalaureate and Advancement Via Individual Determination.
This is a great example of a social justice warrior literally melting down and acting like a Hitler brown shirt..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FeNJFz-WCZs
Special snowflakes
Students had anxiety and stuff when I was in college in the 80s, too. They just didn’t involve the authorities unless there was a medical emergency. Not many 18-year-olds are ready to live on their own, far from family support. It takes time to learn to manage your own life.
Unlike universities, the military has an investment in making sure recruits do well and learn to be competent adults.
Time to reinstitute the draft, mandatory participation, academic exemptions only for the very best and brightest. Military service might make men and women out of these poor children.
Otherwise my generation better discover a way to live for another hundred years, because our kids are mostly not ready or able to take over when we’re gone.
Our 25 year old daughter called her mom the other day and thanked us for giving her some life skills. She is living on her own in a big town.
We now have proof that focusing on your feelings and self esteem is counter productive to raising successful adults, though the movement was done precisely with that premise.
Some of them even freak out at the concept that others disagree with them without apologizing, hence, SJWs.
-PJ
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The truth is being exposed, and the truth reveals that you can’t play T-ball all your life. Reality produces winners and losers. In nature it is known as survival of the fittest.
I was a farm kid. I liked the old 4-H motto of “learning by doing”. Classes now on being an adult? Jeesh!