not difficult to accept...70% of the students are women....
Congratulations! You're on Free Republic which is . . . a form of social media.
im 18 and its unfortunate that I have to agree with most if not all of this article
I don’t know...the number of slackers has probably risen steadily for 47 years so the students have more reason to consider themselves gifted and driven to succeed by comparison.
Perhaps the real problem is the thrust toward “self-esteem” that permeates our schools and which is the goal of most mental health treatment. Maybe the younger generation should be taught to esteem God and others, rather than themselves.
Yeah, one of them is President.
The problem isnt social media, it is the feedback that your average kid receives for doing nothing of note that used to be reserved for people that did great things.
Millions of viewers for a video on youtube of a kid doing something stupid. Hundreds of thousands of people reading dumb things on a Twitter feed. Even more that like your bad instagram photo.
What kid wouldn’t think they were the greatest thing ever? And all it takes is a few moments and some boredom and you too can be bigger that Jesus.
I couldn’t agree more. Living in CA I am surrounded my narcissists. Go to the mall see all of these teenagers covered from head to toe with piercings and ghastly tattooes. Go to Venice Beach, pot dispensaries all over the place. Television is worse than ever. The only respite I get from TV is METV where I can watch reruns of the Beverly Hillbillies, Hogan’s Heroes, Batman, Lost in Space, and Voyage to the Bottam of the Sea. And these public schools run by these neo Stalinist teachers unions turning our kids heads into mush. All they learn about in history is Dr. MLK Jr and Cesar Chavez. I have had take my child to the Nixon and Reagan Libraries to get a real history lesson. I have told my child never even think about a tattoo or a piercing. I have enrolled her in Catechism. We go to church every week. I see to it that homework gets done before computer games and TV. I think discpline is the key. Our culture sucks. Our country is bankrupt. Our president is Marxist. All the rest of the country had to do was look at my pathetic state. But no. The rest of the nation seems hellbent determined to follow CA’s descent into hell and bankruptcy.
They know how to text their friends on an Iphone, could Einstein do that?
Iphone = all about ‘I’
I know a 31 year old that was so jealous of our 57 year old VP who is a 30 veteran pilot that we called “Captain Brad” that he refused to address him as such, proclaiming, “F*** him! He doesn’t call me anything special for all MY lifetime achievements!”
Yep, a 31 year old loser demanding equal status to a chief airline 747 captain.
Now wait a minute . . .
faux celebrities—the equivalent of lead actors in their own fictionalized life stories.
But we really are smart and beautiful and witty and worthy of great sums of money and......Welcome to Burger Joint, ya want biggie fries or regular?
I see this culture of narcissism as a contributing factor to these mass shootings...
Raising a generation of narcissists???
He11, we elected one president!
Not my kid
Is he talking about the Baby Boomers?
I’m not a big fan of Facebook and the way the young people use it, but they don’t come anywhere near the deluded, self-aggrandizement found in the nannies from the Baby Boom generation who want to force the putrid ideas they come up with in their egocentric worlds on everyone else.