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CPS = child protective services? If yes, why? Pushing your kids to achieve and holding them to high expectations is a good thing. It's not child abuse assumin
by asanwal 11y ago
CPS = child protective services?
If yes, why?
Pushing your kids to achieve and holding them to high expectations is a good thing. It's not child abuse assuming that's what you meant by CPS.
If some kids can't hang, that's life. We don't need to regulate that away.
I realize that hard work and grit and the grind are out of favor today but making schools less rigorous is foolish.
Disclaimer: son of immigrants
- linksnapzz 11y agoIt's great to see rote grade-grinding (in HS, no less) mistaken for achievement, and rampant credential-grubbing seen as the path to material success & respectability. It's exactly that kind of mindset that for 300 years has made the USA the place it is today. Disclaimer: actual American
- asanwal 11y agoI wasn't around for all of the last 300 years of US history as you were it seems, but I suspect the current aversion to doing work and things that seem hard would make many prior generations of Americans cry or potentially laugh at us. I was born here in the 70s and even I see a massive attitude shift. I wonder what folks a generation ahead of me think. Actual American. Ha ha. That's rich.
- s73v3r 11y agoNo. There's a huge difference between pushing them and creating a unhealthy environment. And this "survival of the fittest" in grade school bullshit needs to stop.