tailgater wrote:Is anyone surprised?
We're telling today's kids that feelings and words matter more than actions.
We tell them that EVERY DAY.
So why make them take an action that makes them feel uncomfortable?
Snowflake 101.
You can't have it both ways. Though I suspect you like it both ways.
While there is probably a drop of truth in what you're saying, it's a sweeping statement: they're only your feelings and words.
See what I did there?
Did you applaud the kids that took action after the Parkland school shooting?
No, you didn't. You mocked them for taking action. How about BLM? They're proactive kids. They take action.
I could go on but I type with just one finger...
My point is we applaud kids only when they take actions that we're in agreement with. If you think kids are being sissified what are you doing about It? Typing words and expressing your injured feelings?
You've decided that all kids should be forced to give their presentations.
It'll ultimately serve them well. That's what you feel. For all we know it traumatizes more than it benefits.
If you can't convince yourself that there are certain kids and certain instances where some alternative is better than strictly enforcing that requirement then, right or wrong, you're part of an ineffectual and dying breed: a school marm generation.
Giving kids that are varifiably incapable of live presentations deserve alternatives. Why not give them some like video taping their presentations?
Little boxes on the hillside,
Little boxes made of ticky tacky,
Little boxes on the hillside,
Little boxes all the same.
There's a green one and a pink one
And a blue one and a yellow one,
And they're all made out of ticky tacky
And they all look just the same.
And the boys go into business
And marry and raise a family
In boxes made of ticky tacky
And they all look just the same.
There's a green one and a pink one
And a blue one and a yellow one,
And they're all made out of ticky tacky
And they all look just the same.
Aren't we individuals and all different?