From time to time I have gone on a rant or two about Political Correctness or our Declining Governmental Educational System. I'll list a couple of past rants below, so u can "enjoy" them all over again...
- Trailers Where Our Students Are Schooled ... My County School System tried to put a good face on the student trailers that completely surround our schools by calling them, "Learning Cottages".
- Trophies ... The practice of Awarding Trophies to all participants in sporting contests involving our very young is absolutely silly. Our little athletes are showered with awards no matter how bad their teams were, how bad the individual sporty youths were or how many, if any, games their teams won. ... We should always not forget to remember what that great NFL linebacker, Bruiser Collisionski once said, “Let us not confuse Participation with Excellence.”
Image via WikipediaThe Score Is Not Important ... This Not-Keeping-Score practice in sports has been hard to enforce because somehow our young sporty children have learned to how count. The big unsolved mystery is whether our government schools taught them to count or does Sesame Street get the credit?
Awhile back I was teaching a Computer Class and I went off on a tangent that was not related to computing. I blurted out that while my Brother was in High School he went all 4 years without missing a single day of school and he got the only Perfect Attendance Award given out at his graduation ceremony.
One of my students offered this commentary, "My grand daughter told me that, as long as she does not miss more than 10% of her school days, she can get a Perfect Attendance Award".
Looks to me like "they" have also changed the definition of "Perfect" and that seems like a definition that ought not to be redefined.
Would I kid u?
