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Originally Posted by SSJup81
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.
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Yeah, I heard about the "no more F's" too. Ridiculous. And the scoring in PE is there to teach them that even when you work very hard, do your best, and put in a lot of effort, many times you will still lose. And THAT is not something these teachers want to teach.
Maybe "liberal" isn't the best word, perhaps "leftist" would be better. See, one of the things about conservatism is that it calls for self-sufficiency, being allowed to either succeed or fail, and reaping the benefits of success and the cost or punishment of failure or bad or stupid choices (like choosing to start using drugs, or choosing to have 14 kids with no means of support). The left is more about collectivism, everyone succeeding or failing together, group identities, taking from those who succeed to give to those who fail (which provides a disincentive to succeed because you'll simply have more taken away, and at the same time removes the sting of failure. Together, it destroys personal motivation and drive to succeed, instead creating dependency and apathy as people find it easier to take the handouts than work to succeed and have all their rewards taken away to give to others who either failed or didn't even try). Leftist teachers are indoctrinating students with this sense of entitlement for political reasons, it's not a random thing. There have been quite a few books written about this.