To get off on a tangent of sorts ... I think a lot of it comes from the turn this nation seems to have taken towards "don't hurt little Johnny's feelings" and "everything has to be fair and even." So many kids now are taught that there are no wrong answers or that competition is bad or any of the other lunacy that is going on in so many places. And then I saw where recently my beloved school district was under attack for demanding more of its students for their grades. For decades the system worked fine. You just have to work harder to get that grade that you want but now some parents have decided that it isn't fair that their little angel in one of the best school districts in the country has to work harder to get the same GPA as a student from another school district. They are worried that their child will be judged on only that number when looking at colleges, etc. and poor little boo boo baby might not look at special. Absolutely destroying this nation with this nonsense. Instead of teaching the child that sometimes you do have to work harder (nevermind that the better schools already know the difference in the quality of the education coming from that school district) and that sometimes life isn't fair, lower the standard. Ugh! Stop lower expectations and start teaching your children how to get there!
