28 Replies to “The Children Are Our Future”

    1. *
      the $10,000,000 question…

      “Imagine if you will: teenaged white kids are caught up
      in some skinhead group. Their parents are neo-nazis
      as well. Dad and the boys head out to Zimbabwe to
      fight Mugabe. Dad is killed, and the boyos are wounded
      and captured.”

      “How many Toronto Star editorials would be written to
      get the kids back to Canada?”

      *

  2. The poor little things….ahhhhhh.
    Remember these are supposed to be the “brightest and smartest”. You can bet none of these poor “disabled” kiddies would have an inkling of what “Work Ethic” means….or ever got their hands dirty

    Your supposed leaders of tomorrow.

    Next guy I vote for had better have been a Tradesman…Hell, maybe I’ll run.

    1. Remember these are supposed to be the “brightest and smartest”. You can bet none of these poor “disabled” kiddies would have an inkling of what “Work Ethic” means….or ever got their hands dirty

      Tell me about it. I spent several years as a post-secondary educator. I had lecture rooms filled with the intellectual equivalent of fragile porcelain dolls who thought themselves to be geniuses. Part of the reason was that the schools they went to before they attended my institution told them so.

      I quit more than 15 years ago. I guess I got while the going was good.

    2. “…Hell, maybe I’ll run.”

      Please do.I personally would love to be able to vote for someone who actually worked in his life,and I don’t mean as a salesman. Some of the old time Reformers were working men,a few I met were cowboys, loggers, ranchers,farmers, not many from the ranks of the chatterers.

      Damned good bunch,too bad they never had a chance to take the West out of Confederation and run it as a separate country.

      1. Thanx for the endorsement Don..

        I’m likely a little too ACIDIC for most. I like most here, have little room to suffer the following abject stupidity:

        Social Justice
        Political Correctness
        Climate Change
        ISLAM & its adherents
        Upper/Lower Canada
        UN
        Gendr Bending – LGBTQ@%Blahblah…Perversional activism.
        Public Servants & their Unions.
        LIBERALS – Commies / Greenies (same thing really) and finally…..PM DickSpank (tks Buddy.!)

        ahh…I guess that sounds just like MAX..!!

        #BernierNation

        1. Theo, there are those who want me to run. And then there are those who get a look of horror on their face when I say that. Yer list is a little shorter than mine would be. And I would call A$$holes just that, to their face.:-)))

  3. Welcome to the 21st Century where 100% of the population are victims. At universities just make a 2 hour exam with 8 open ended questions and give everyone 8 hours to complete it. Allow 1000 words and dock 1/1000 of the grade for each word over or under. And have a few exam supervisors to watch them pee if they want bathroom breaks.

    1. When I started teaching, I often checked my exams by writing them myself, making a note of the time I needed to complete them. Initially, I multiplied that time by 3 and that gave me an idea of whether those exams were the right length. In other words, for a 2-hour exam for the students, I should have needed 40 minutes.

      That was usually an accurate guess, but that was when I started teaching….. 30 years ago. By the time I quit 15 years ago, that factor increased to 4 and even that wasn’t enough. (My Ph. D. supervisor and I sometimes swapped teaching stories and he made similar observations about his students.)

      When I started teaching, closed-book exams were the norm. By the time I quit, that was no longer the case. I often got into trouble for restricting the allowable material to a formula sheet, which the students had to make themselves, or a single textbook.

      I based those restrictions on my own experience. I found that most of the equations I wrote on my sheets weren’t necessary as the exams often tested me on knowing the basic concepts, though how that was done was the difficult part. Also, I remember having open-book exams in which I spent more time looking for an example that matched the question on the exam than in actually writing that exam.

      I got into trouble, of course. After all, I was making it “difficult” for the kiddies and…. well, you can figure out the rest.

      As for washroom breaks, I had groups of students who used them as consultation sessions. Sometimes we had multiple sections for a given course and we arranged to have common exams that were written at the same time. Some of my students would suddenly have to go and, I’m sure, some from at least one of the other groups were in the same situation and that those breaks were timed.

      One year, I had a student who claimed to be diabetic and that he needed to periodically eat something. That part I believed because my late father was a diabetic for most of his life. But, the kid claimed that he had to go to the washroom in order to eat, which I flatly refused to let him do. I told him that I had no problem with him eating at his desk. The withering look I got in response told me everything I needed to know about his request.

      He was a poor student in his other courses, so I wasn’t surprised when he failed mine and dropped out soon afterward.

  4. Many years ago there was a wise guy that said that if you don’t have any of the official psycho stuff there maybe something wrong with you.
    The witch doctors qualify everybody as having this affliction or that.
    Then they get the healthcare to pay for a “treatment”.

      1. I’m ashamed, that’s my hometown. Live up island now but it is discouraging to see this already seeping into the rural areas and schools even four years ago.

      1. pfff… I am colorblind, you racist buggers. Move aside.

        On second thought, I hate working. Just send me reparations instead.

  8. A bunch of research has shown that children in first world countries exposed to the most dirt and dander tend to have stronger immune systems (up to a certain degree, of course). Farm kids, for instance. Their body becomes more resilient.

    I’d imagine it’s similar for you cognitive and emotional development. Kids who are less pampered, exposed to some stress and allowed more freedom (up to a certain degree) will develop more resilience. Like Gen X latch key kids. Children from immigrant families.

    Anyway, someone should tell the kids, the parents and the universities that it’s overcoming your problems that’s the important part, not incorporating your “issues” as a lifelong disability that defines who you are. Learning to deal with stress and other setbacks builds character.

    We have a 24 hour rule: you can rant, cry or feel angry about a bad day, poor sports performance/bad reffing, argument, blowing an exam, etc. but then you need to move on and fix or accept what happened. If you start early enough, that type of coping mechanism should become ingrained and promote resilience. Hopefully, it increases immunity to this modern tendency of wallowing in self-destructive behaviors that requires everyone around you to cater to your fragility.

  9. Emotional Support Schnauzers?
    Too cruel for the animals.
    I demand they get free Emotional Support Polar bears.
    Because these same idiots are peers of Timothy Treadwell, they insist wild animals are humanlike,that Polar Bears are “endangered” ..
    That they all need safe spaces.

    A winning combination.
    I am 95% certain that matching the “emotionally upset” with a large carnivorous “support creature” can only benefit society overall.

    1. “..I am 95% certain that matching the “emotionally upset” with a large carnivorous “support creature” can only benefit society overall…”

      k, now I know for sure, I lost the internet today..

      LMAO.. love it.!
      (no question…none whatsoever).

  10. Heck, yeah, I believe maybe 90% of college students have mental problems. That’s the percentage of progressive snowflakes, isn’t it?

    On the other hand, I had a very good experience teaching a geometry class at Cal State Chico almost half a century ago. Now Chico St. was primarily known as a party school, and the course I taught was meant to be a mickey mouse course to fulfill general college requirements. And even those who taught it treated it as such.

    Well, I didn’t take it as such. In the beginning of the semester, I handed out a sheet of problems. They asked me when was it due, and I answered oh no, these are just fun problems you will be able to solve during the course of the semester. They of course looked at me like I was nuts, like who would waste the time looking at them. Well, when the end of the semester was approaching, they actually came to me to ask about one or two problems they couldn’t solve. Obviously, they worked out the rest of the solutions. I was very encouraged, to think at that school, with that class, all you have to do was pique their interest.

    But that was almost fifty years ago, before mathematics was convicted of racism and sexism.

  11. No wonder so many are thrilled (young men) by Jordan Peterson’s 12 rules and why so many are appalled (young women).
    The I’m Feeling Sorry For Myself Crowd is a first world phenomena.
    I identify with the boss in those Bell ads that knows the employee is being a cry-baby rather than the boss who is all happy to give the well-fed, well housed, employed, physically healthy and safe adult time off WITH pay . . . and a hug.
    Yeah, there are mental health issues, but feeling sorry for yourself is a dead end. Sometimes literally and I mean no disrespect to those who’ve lost loved ones who’ve made a permanent decision to a temporary set of circumstances.
    Nobody fleeing war, imprisonment, persecution, disease or famine kills themselves except as a last resort.

  12. Re: emotional support animals,

    You should go with gerbils, Kate. Most of these twinkies couldn’t be trusted with a dog, plus your turn-around on a gerbil is really fast.

    Or pigs. If it all goes badly, you can still get a ham sandwich out of the deal. Plus I really want to see one of these waddling children trying to get a pig on an airplane. REEEEEEEEE!!!!!

  13. It’s not just the kids anymore. The adults, (or maybe I should say the over 18 crowd- there seem to be precious few adults left) are getting in on the act. The number of individuals presenting on “medical” marijuana or claiming to suffer from “post traumatic stress” because, for instance, they were bitten by a dog, is skyrocketing. It’s a race to the bottom — a competition to be the most needy and helpless with no end in sight. A colleague and I were commiserating — how on earth do you defend the tractor factory at Stalingrad from hordes of invading Nazis with the collection of pansies we’re developing? The short answer is, you don’t. This is in no one’s best interest in the long run, least of all the snowflakes with their learned helplessness.

  14. People who have no idea who or what they are would be the most seriously handicapped.

  15. When my son was young he had a learning disability – he couldn’t read when he was in Grade 4 (a form of dyslexia). He was assessed as LD Gifted and was told he could have extra time to write exams etc.

    To his immense credit he refused any and all concessions, stating that he had to make his way in life and the world would not cut him any slack. Through hard work and determination, he cured himself. He now has a degree in Aviation Technology and is an Airline Pilot.

    I am very proud of my son.

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