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Originally Posted by samurai007
There is far too much liberal political correctness in schools today. Believe it or not, the school I went to (and that the children of some of my friends now attend) don't keep score in PE games anymore. They say that doing so might make those on the losing team feel bad, so all that counts is "effort". Students who excel at something can no longer be recognized or rewarded for it, because it might hurt the feelings of everyone else. They teach the kids all about "self-esteem" and "equality" and "no one is better or smarter or more intelligent than anyone else". They play to the lowest common denominator rather than encourage kids to find a niche they enjoy and develop those skills in order to succeed. This in turn has led to a generation of kids who believe they deserve things just because of who they are, or because they put in "effort". "Effort" was the only thing recognized in school, never achievement anymore, and with all that self-esteem and self-empowerment and liberal indoctrination, they start thinking the world owes them, and things will be smooth and easy if only they put in a modicum of "effort". And if for some reason "effort" does not equal "success", as the OP's friend discovered, then it MUST be because of racism, bigotry, or unfairness of some kind...
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Wow! This reminds me of this article I came across a few months back. Some schools are getting rid of the "F" on the grading scale for a BS reason..."It hurts the students' self-esteem." I ranted on about that for a good while. Forgot where I saw it or where I ranted about it, but that's just downright stupid! They're trying to make the kids pansies and weak. I heard about the "no keeping score" thing for PE, but that's bad too. Nothing wrong with competition. It's nice to win, but kids also have to learn that they can't win at everything or win all of the time and that you have to work hard to obtain it and reach that goal. If you didn't do good playing a game, you go out and train and work harder to improve it. If you get a poor score, you study harder, so that next time you do better.
That aside, I don't feel it's "liberal", just illogical and pointless. I don't even see what that has to do with the statement. IMO, a lot of stuff is going wrong where kids are involved. It's good to encourage kids, get their esteem up, but I don't feel that mollycoddling them is the way to do it.