Blame It on Mr. Rogers: Why Young Adults Feel So Entitled

[armakraut]

I've know a lot of people from my grandparents generation that were not exactly the sharpest knife in the drawer, but because of good schooling they were much better at math, writing and reading than most of the college graduates I've met.

People sort of forget that primary schooling is supposed to give people basic skills and some understanding of history to help them function in society, not give a jack-of-all-trades education.

Too much indoctrination, too little schooling.

[hickuleas]

I knew i never liked that Mr. Roger's, now i have figured it out.

[BVickery]

Blame what on Mr Rogers?

He was nothing more than a T.V. show host.
Like many years back blaming Beavis and Butthead because that kid
set his trailer on fire. (Beavis use to joke and say fire.. fire... fire...)
Turned out that family didn't even have cable.

Let's try something new. blame the kid and if any other fingers need to be pointed then the parents.

I still don't get why Mr Rogers is to blame for kids "feeling Entitled".

*If i'm missing something because of an EDIT, maybe the title to this should have also been edited*

It is blaming the kids, as well as adults who fill them with bs ideals like not hurting their feelings, or that there is no such thing as loosing etc.

Liberals are neerly conditioning kids to be normal, that being exceptional at something is bad.

[bobvila]

One of my HS english teachers was on the tv show, he also looked and sounded just like Mr. Rogers.

[Dunderway]

I can't see ZDL's post, but can only assume that it is trashing Fred Rogers. If it proves me wrong, please repost it.

Mr. Rogers was an amazing man that dedicated his life (on public television) to teaching children that God loved them, and they were special. Call that "liberal" if you want, but it's much better than the rank and file shit that kids are taught today, or Japanamation for that matter.

If you can watch these and tell me you don't respect the man, I don't know what to say:

U.S Senate Speech: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yXEuEUQIP3Q

Award acceptance: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IbBwD...eature=related

If teaching young people to respect themselves and their community is a bad thing, then we're in trouble.

[skyugo]

I've know a lot of people from my grandparents generation that were not exactly the sharpest knife in the drawer, but because of good schooling they were much better at math, writing and reading than most of the college graduates I've met.

People sort of forget that primary schooling is supposed to give people basic skills and some understanding of history to help them function in society, not give a jack-of-all-trades education.

Too much indoctrination, too little schooling.

proper training and work ethic will take you far.

[ThirdWatcher]

Education in the US today is the natural consequence of having socialized it, in the Stalinist sense of the word.

Centrally directed, no financial rewards or punishments for teachers being good or bad.

THIS is what you get when you allow centralized government control.

Give education back to localities, break the government monopoly on education and take away Federal tax dollars both collected and spent in support of it. Allow individuals and localities to keep the tax dollars and spend them the way THEY want to.

BTW, to spin off Armakraut - Human Intelligence is waaaay over-rated. When it comes to individual or corporate success, I will choose work ethic over intelligence 100% of the time. If I were king of the world, I'd stop supporting allegedly "bright" student programs so much and put my assets into the middle. "Bright" kids rarely pan out. I want more entrepreneurs, and less Executive Vice Presidents of Finance and Professors of Left Handed Lesbian Studies at Stanford.

Man, I couldn't agree more!

IMO, our public school system does very little to prepare our young people for their future. I got so tired of attending adolescent daycare that I quit and joined the Army. Afterwards I wondered why I waited so long.

[boltcatch]

Agree totally.

My wife has been a teacher in the public school system for over 20 years. Many involved in education are dedicated and truly want to help kids. However I know she gets incredibly frustrated with much of the “feel good” and “everyone’s a winner” attitudes so prevalent today. According to her it also shows up in retention proceedings or those to determine special services needs for a child. Parents and educators ignoring a problem in the short term does nothing good for the child in the long term.

There are a lot of dedicated and talented educators, but not enough. I was lucky enough to go to a school that was far above average.

Generally speaking, our public education system is just plain ****ed. Too many education majors are coming from the bottom of a barrel that isn't very outstanding in the first place.

It's a vicious cycle... young education majors come from lousy public high schools with a poor education - and are often drawn to the field for ideological reasons, if not to journalism - then receive a lousy, mostly worthless degree in programs a monkey could graduate from, were they to simply show up. These kids move on to either "educate" more public school children, or sit through a few more years of nonsense and end up teaching more education majors.

Standards keep going down and each generation is more ignorant than the last. Nothing is getting fixed because public educators are too focused on union bullshit and college educators are too focused on indoctrination and in exponentially growing their tuition rates.

There will always be a few kids who can sort themselves out without any help. For everyone else it comes down to whether or not you have parents who give a damn. Absent parental effort, we're simply turning out imbeciles who feel they're entitled to the world on a platter, and who have been convinced that they've received an education that befits our nation's place in the world.

Looming over all of this are a bunch of cultures - urban, suburban, and rural - that actually place value on being an illiterate idiot. Instead of ridiculing it into oblivion, our schools and local leaders simply wring their hands and blather on about programs and community centers and zero tolerance. **** that bullshit. Grab Mr. "I'm too cool to learn how to read and pull up my pants", toss a sign around his neck proclaiming he's an idiot, toss some clownshoes on his feet, and park his ass in front of the high school for a week or two. If they don't want the clownshoes treatment, then they should pull their head out of their ass.