Five runners are running a race. When the first runner crosses the finish line he is the victor and receives the gold medal, and, ideally, subsequent finishers get silver and bronze medals in the order they arrive. In today’s society there is a trend away from this age old practice of crowning a winner, now people receive awards and commendation for nothing more than showing up to a competition. Through a complex causal chain, not having a winner or loser, and rewarding participation is a key reason for the recent spike in the number of people receiving governmental aid. While this does not apply to everyone, it is a large number of people who receive aid. Teachers today teach children that they deserve awards for only participating, teenagers
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They continue to see things handed to them that they do not deserve. The parents are still to blame during the teenage years, sparing the rod on the false pretense that punishment is negative and can only lead to negative outcomes on the child’s psyche. Outside the home, teachers give grades to these students to be rid of them, which in turn makes the student believe that they deserve a passing grade simply because they’ve shown up to class. As they move into other parts of their lives as teenagers, these people do not get jobs because they are not required to pay for the things they’re given. Their parents buy them the newest stylish clothes, phones, and even cars, which these teens see as more of a deserved essential than a luxury or blessing. Aside from the teachers’ and parents’ contribution, these students are also rewarded by the education system for doing the minimal amount of work possible to get by in school. Students who work as hard as they can every day to graduate high school get the same opportunities to further their high school education as those who simply show up, skip classes, and smoke cigarettes in the bathrooms for seven hours a day. The school system doesn’t allow ability grouping, so they dumb down the curriculum in order to, once again, protect the self-esteem of
They continue to see things handed to them that they do not deserve. The parents are still to blame during the teenage years, sparing the rod on the false pretense that punishment is negative and can only lead to negative outcomes on the child’s psyche. Outside the home, teachers give grades to these students to be rid of them, which in turn makes the student believe that they deserve a passing grade simply because they’ve shown up to class. As they move into other parts of their lives as teenagers, these people do not get jobs because they are not required to pay for the things they’re given. Their parents buy them the newest stylish clothes, phones, and even cars, which these teens see as more of a deserved essential than a luxury or blessing. Aside from the teachers’ and parents’ contribution, these students are also rewarded by the education system for doing the minimal amount of work possible to get by in school. Students who work as hard as they can every day to graduate high school get the same opportunities to further their high school education as those who simply show up, skip classes, and smoke cigarettes in the bathrooms for seven hours a day. The school system doesn’t allow ability grouping, so they dumb down the curriculum in order to, once again, protect the self-esteem of