We are doomed

[JJVP]

I knew things were bad, but this just leaves me speechless.



[youtube]http://youtube.com/watch?v=VxHfYNTrnic[/youtube]

[Heartland Patriot]

Well, I've got two small things to say after watching that video:

Those kids aught to learn the principal of TINSTAAFL (There Is No Such Thing As A Free Lunch), and may God bless that professor for his efforts...

[RoyGBiv]

How much different is this attitude with kids today vs the "Love Generation"?
Reality sets in after college for many folks.

Our enabler-in-chief is certainly not helping, however.

[marinemom]

powerful video

[FuziDave]

well when every kids soccer team gets a trophy (can't have winners or loosers) and we're more worried about their self esteem than figuring out 2+2=4, then this is what you get.

[chasfm11]

Personally, I cannot watch something like this and not wonder where I (me personally) went wrong. We, of course, did not raise our kids like the ones that the professor describes from his classes but there must be a whole lot of people like me who have allowed our schools to become infected with this kind of reasoning in the name of education. I'm just not sure where I personally participated in the decision to allow this to happen or, if I had understood sufficiently what was happening, what I could have or should have done to stop it.

We Conservatives have been out-manned and out-gunned on these types of social issues. That's amazing considering that the polls show us as the largest identifiable group.

[Purplehood]

I think there is a general trend for young men and women to start out as Liberals by default. The tendency in the early teens is to overthink things and have an innate belief that they are more intelligent than the adults around them.
Gradually some of these kids grow out of this miasma of liberal-thinking and grow up to see the world as it really is.
I know that I was very liberal in my youth, to the point of actually believing that Communism in its purest-form (which has never been achieved, much like true Democracy) was the way to go.
Now I am one of those folks that think that Gay Rights, Abortion, Sex between consenting Adults and issues along those lines are not the realm of Governance. I do believe in fiscal conservatism, the Free Market (though I wish there was something we could do to fix it...must be latent socialist feelings) and Gun Rights are just as important.
I am not too worried about the next generation.

[Diesel42]

FWIW... my two cents.

I believe our culture has made a choice to "protect" our children from the real world. Many of us remember learning hard decisions and consequences early in life. By protecting our children from hard decisions and consequences, we have delayed their maturity. I agree with Purplehood that we all start off being Liberal. We all start off wanting to believe in people and the rules. As we pay the consequences of trusting deceitful people, we become more conservative.

This professor is doing his job. He is educating his students to the reality they have been protected from. Hopefully, they will learn.

Thanks for the bandwidth,
Nick

[FuziDave]

i remember reading a local school district, i think Coppell, decided last year that homework would not count as part of your grade and you can take a test over and over until you pass.

they found out, shockingly, the failure rate jumped dramatically!!

gee. if there's no motivation to do the homework to learn the subject, then it's no wonder they were failing tests.

i believe they dropped that policy.

[Purplehood]

Too bad they didn't institute that policy in my youth. I might have prospered!

[sugar land dave]

gee. if there's no motivation to do the homework to learn the subject....

Excuse me, I'm spending too much time here studying the responsibilities of CHL. I need to go play some video games....

[Rex B]

If I had kids today, they would be in a private school where they learn responsibility.
Even if it impacted my firearms budget

[Purplehood]

If I had kids today, they would be in a private school where they learn responsibility.
Even if it impacted my firearms budget

I deliberately send my kid to public school. It is my job to teach him responsibility. The schools job is to teach him...period.

[Heartland Patriot]

Personally, I cannot watch something like this and not wonder where I (me personally) went wrong. We, of course, did not raise our kids like the ones that the professor describes from his classes but there must be a whole lot of people like me who have allowed our schools to become infected with this kind of reasoning in the name of education. I'm just not sure where I personally participated in the decision to allow this to happen or, if I had understood sufficiently what was happening, what I could have or should have done to stop it.

We Conservatives have been out-manned and out-gunned on these types of social issues. That's amazing considering that the polls show us as the largest identifiable group.

That is because the "info-tainment industry/mainstream media" and the educational system/academia have been over-run with people of a certain ideological mindset. Remember, they are the "wise and learned elite", and YOU and I are "stupid flyover country teabillies clinging to our guns and religion" who don't know that the "intellectual people" are just trying to make things wonderful for everyone and we are just evil and getting in their way...everything they say is perfect and everything you or I say is wrong. Watch some Bill Maher or that Jon Stewart guy and you will see what I mean...the "holier-than-thou" attitude and elitism drip from every word.

[bizarrenormality]

I deliberately send my kid to public school. It is my job to teach him responsibility. The schools job is to teach him...period.

Matthew 7:17-20