[fwdude]

“This isn’t a judgment. It’s an observation.”

Why shouldn’t it be a judgment? It is condemnable, if we are beings with agency.

[atc23]

To say this abnormal behavior is a judgement calls into question- “are you now, or have you ever been a racist?”

[Arkady]

I think what plagues us and has for a long time, comes out of our affluence and success. Life has become too easy and free of real adversity and this always leads to decadence and a weakness of mind and character.

[imardmd1]

The function of public schooling was meant to be the development of self-management such that at graduation from high school they would be mature young adults fit to undertake the responsibilities and accountability of employment to provide for their own welfare.

The standards of fitness of public schools are.not meeting their purpose. The reason is that neither teachers nor administrators are filling their roles to exemplify what moral and professional adulthood looks like.

Another big negative factor is the advancement of students to the next grade when they don't deserve it lest their poor egos be damaged. Carries all the way up into colleges that produce unfit DEI "teachers."

When the situation required, my children received additional challenges from me that the schools failed to provide. And nowthey have trained my 19 grandchildren to adulthood likewise, all of whom are faring well in their maturity.

A parent is not, in the end, to blame anyone else.