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woah woah woah.
Schools should NOT be in the business of "building self-seteem" That touchey-feely new age crap doesn't do one thing towards preparing children for the real world and is one of the predominent reasons for such poor student achievement.
Some schools don't even use grades anymore because "it should all be about the effort" Giving johnny a C and mary an A makes johnny feel bad and promotes competition. <- thats the thought of the education system today. Several of my wife's friends & sisters are teachers/education majors/education grad students and I'm always interested to hear what they have to say about education. And thats the stuff they say. Grades promote competition and competition hurts self-esteem.
Our schools are ruining our kids and its because of crap like that. losing and getting you feelings hurst used to be a good thing. It used to be called "building character" and it used to make you want to try harder to get better and achieve. now its bad and detremental to development.
But it all starts at home. If parents never would have given up the responsibility of raising their kids to the school system, our education system wouldn't be polluted with this nonsense and we could be focusing on teaching science and math and how to read and write. We should be creating the world's next engineers and scientists, instead we're creating the worlds next wefare generation with no regard for responsibility.
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