Has our society become too liberal minded?

2016-06-05T00:41:11-04:00

It use to be that the student or individual was held responsible for their actions. Today people don’t want to accept responsibility, especially when their children are involved. They prefer to use the authority figure as the scapegoat!

Response by Capt Seid Waddell made Jun 5 at 2016 1:05 AM

2016-06-05T01:05:37-04:00

As the twig is bent so grows the tree...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Ty7WU872Lk

Barack Hussein Obama Mmm Mmm Mmm

Does this send a chill up your spine? Does it remind you of the past? What do you think of the is video? hmmm?

Response by SMSgt Matthew Hoyer made Jun 5 at 2016 4:32 AM

2016-06-05T04:32:31-04:00

This is an oversimplification, a generalization and just about the worst argument i've seen. there are a lot of declarative statements with NOTHING to back them up other than anecdotal evidence, which is not evidence at all. My children accept responsibility for their actions. If something goes wrong, i don't blame the teachers. both of those pictures represent a horrible extreme of view and neither is right.

Response by Lt Col Private RallyPoint Member made Jun 5 at 2016 4:40 AM

2016-06-05T04:40:49-04:00

I don't think this is a liberal vs conservative issue. More of a societal narcissistic issue. I think it is a bad move to go, always have. It is going to set this generation up for failure when they wake up one day and realize you are not a winner for poor performance. I say its a narcissistic issue because parents look at their kids poor performance as a reflection of their parenting and that is why they take offense.

Response by CPL Brendan Hayes made Jun 5 at 2016 11:00 AM

2016-06-05T11:00:23-04:00

OK. I'm going to stick within education since that is what the cartoon addresses and because I am not qualified to make any statements about the entire society.

I have been working in education for 12 going on 13 years. From what I've witnessed in that time, there is a touch of truth to the comic. There is a very definite trend within education to blame the teachers when a student fails. Of course this can be warranted; however, there are also times where students do nothing and complain about getting 0 points (they fell they deserve some points at least). I do not agree with this idea. If you do nothing, you get nothing. However, and here's where the cartoon loses a bit, of the handful of times I've had to explain why a student earned a zero the parents pretty quickly realized the truth of the situation. More often than not, the student lied to the parents, and as the parents realize this their attitude changes.

The entitlement of the student is there for sure, and in some cases it is fostered by the parents. With that said, when the parents realize that Johnny/Jane has been less that honest with them...well you can imagine (it can be kind of fun to watch).

In some ways, this move to the left within education is a direct response to No Child Left Behind (NCLB) a pretty conservative approach to education. After years of dealing with NCLB, the pendulum is swinging back to the other end of the spectrum. The bottom line, no matter your political leanings, is that both of these approaches are created, supported, and enforced by people who have never set foot in a classroom as a teacher (or it's been so long that they have forgotten). They have no idea the daily challenges a classroom holds. It is like appointing someone with no military experience to be the Army Chief of Staff.

Of course this is my very limited experience and/or my own opinion. Please feel free to disregard or disagree.

Response by SP5 Mark Kuzinski made Jun 5 at 2016 3:55 PM

2016-06-05T15:55:35-04:00

Spot on to this post Sgt Joe LaBranche!!!

Response by SGT Kristin Wiley made Jun 5 at 2016 7:38 PM

2016-06-05T19:38:31-04:00

What I've seen is that parents are no longer contributing to their children's education. They expect the schools to raise their kids for them, and then they get upset when their children aren't up to standard. Kids need guidance at home, and if parents aren't providing it they aren't going to do their homework or have someone to go to when they don't understand the questions. Every child learns a different way, and there's no way the public education system can support teaching each child according to their individual learning style. Just my observations.

Response by Cpl Justin Goolsby made Jun 8 at 2016 11:55 AM

2016-06-08T11:55:49-04:00

Yes. I remember when I got my first B, I practically cried the entire walk home because I genuinely thought my Mom would be angry at me. She wasn't, but back then kids were afraid of days that report cards got sent home. These days I don't see the accountability. As if their "little angels" could do no wrong.

Response by SPC Lyle Montgomery made Nov 14 at 2021 1:05 PM

2021-11-14T13:05:47-05:00

It has gotten a hell of a lot worse with The liberal attitute of today. We had freedom of speech when I went to school, at least to some degree. The pendulem has swung too far to the left. I pray that it will swing to the middle again. We don't need CRT and all the sex ed in the lower grades. the woke, liberal, democrat/comunist party are a bunch of lunatics.