Bingo!
from Auntie Meanie 3
Silliness to be sure.
Of course, grading in K-State purple, instead of Husker red, is a good way to subtly bias TEVALS where I teach.
(Go Cats!)
By the way, self-esteem is a vice.
(St. John Cassian enumerates it among the Eight Vices, the other seven being more familiar to Western Christians as the "Seven Deadly Sins".)
This coddling produces alot of incompetant spoiled do-nothings who expect to be complimented and praised for nothing.
Children already are little egomaniacs. Part of growing up is learning you aren't the center of the universe, and life can be hard, and that happiness is not dependent on meaningless superficial rewards.
My high school English teacher used her red pen so much that my papers came back to me looking like she had bled on them. Her comments were constructive and extenstive. She taught me to write well, and I'm grateful to her for that.
By all means, let's teach kids that being special means being whatever you are without even trying. Just show up and you deserve a prize.
I recall my 5th grade teacher used green for grading and that was in 1965-66. I can't remember feeling more valued by the color of his corrections.
Ok, that one made me laugh out loud. ;)
"self esteem" problems are cured by ONE thing......HARD work and occasional disappointments followed by occasional success.
Ms. Sommers,
My kids self esteem went into the manure pile on more than one occasion as they were growing up. Their self esteem was lower than the equator for many short periods when they committed simple stupidities more than once, not learning from the first error has a larger bite.LOL
I told them my love came free with me being their father, earning my respect came only with their performance in every area of their life.
Today their self esteem fluctuates as does their self respect but my love, pride and respect for them remains quite high because I see continual improvements in their growth as independent young adults.
Red was a common color in their young lives, occassionally on their buttocks!, and it apparently hasn't done any permanent damages to their ability to strive for higher levels of self esteem and self respect.
Every parent should be as proud as I am of the development of their children.
The principal of Thaddeus Stevens Elementary in Pittsburgh advises teachers to use only "pleasant-feeling tones."
Isn't that special. awwwwwwwww.
My son's Little League team (Seniors - ages 13 - 15) whupped an opposing team the other night about 12-2 in the 5th inning. The games are called on the "slaughter rule" when there's a 10-run lead. I was raking the field after the game and the opposing coach was delivering a blistering talk to his players about their sloppy play, errors, poor bats, etc. It's good to see that competitive sports don't kowtow to the self-esteem nonsense. The winners earn self-esteem. The losers get to slink off the field of combat.
Oh my g*d, enough! Enough already. What are these people doing? These are the idiots running our schools? No wonder the kids coming out of these 'schools' have no b*lls ... even COLORS are too stressful now?
What will they think of next??
While you are at work, they are brainwashing your kidz at skool. When you get home, turn on the TV, guzzle your adult beverage, and zone out...your kids, if not downloading porn or stealing music off the computer, are reading textbooks chock full of innacuracies and Anti-American revisionist history.
What are your kids reading? Have you picked up their textbooks and looked at them? When are your school board elections? What kind of marxist morons are making budget and cirriculum decisions? What are your kids' teachers like? Is he/she more eatrh-friendly than America-friendly?
If there is but one thing you don't like about what is going on at school, get together with other like-minded parents, and start fighting. It may mean a night without watching the game or drinking a beer, but it may just save your child.