Not a Day Care (Snowflakes in College)

Townhall.com ^ | September 26, 2017 | Walter E. Williams

[Perseverando]

Our college-age population consists mostly of 18- to 30-year-olds, and likewise our armed forces. I wonder whether they shared common responses to the 2016 presidential election. Many college administrators provided students with therapy dogs, play dough, coloring books, bubbles, videos of frolicking kittens and puppies, and soft music. They even canceled classes and postponed exams so that their 18- to 30-year-old snowflakes could better cope with the election results. There are numerous internet photos and videos of these youngsters screaming and in outright grief and panic. Here's my question: Were our military leaders as accommodating as college administrators? Did commanding officers of our aircraft carriers provide their young people with therapy dogs, play dough, crayons and coloring books, and soft music? Were sea training exercises canceled? Were similar accommodations ordered by commanders of our special forces, such as the Army Rangers, Navy SEALs, and Delta Force?

I'm guessing and hoping that our military leaders, unlike many college administrators, have not lost their minds. That brings me to this column's title: "Not a Day Care." That's the title of a new book written by Dr. Everett Piper, president of Oklahoma Wesleyan University. Piper reminds us that today's law students are tomorrow's lawyers and judges. Based on what they are taught, there's no mystery why lawyers and judges seek to legislate from the bench. Students who want to rid college curricula of dead old white men such as Plato, Aristotle, Voltaire, and Kant will be on tomorrow's school boards or be professors. This doesn't bode well for our nation's future.

[Hojczyk]

The country does not have much of a future..

Liberals control the schools and media..there in the process of destroying sports...there are fewer and fewer MEN in this country..

The GOP is useless..

[BenLurkin]

Ben, Jr. says there is a term these kids use in their social media. “Adulting”

It means making a conscious effort to act temporarily as an adult before reverting to the Millenials’ ordinary condition of perpetual childhood.

[Spok]

When I was a kid we actually wanted to grow up and be adult. Now weakness is celebrated and encouraged. How do they expect to cope with real world problems?

[Catmom]

These people have been in daycare since they were infants.

What makes you think they’ll stop now?

[JoeFromSidney]

Years ago I was an adjunct at a nearby college. The department chairman told me to bring pencils on exam day, for the students who forgot them. I soon found I was supplying pencils to almost every student. I finally told them, I'd been in places where men their age were making life and death decisions. They could damn well remember to bring a pencil to an exam. I never again supplied pencils.