This is a load of nonsense. We had all this stuff growing up, or it didn't end up mattering. 1) "Everyone gets a ribbon". The year 2000 called, and they want

This is a load of nonsense. We had all this stuff growing up, or it didn't end up mattering. 1) "Everyone gets a ribbon". The year 2000 called, and they want this complaint back. Half the time kids don't even want the trophy; it was an embarrassing consolation prize. The people complaining were the ones doing it (boomers, generally) 2) "Standardized tests out the window." Really looked to people like this didn't matter and there were ways to buy your way to victory. However, I see some value in some standardized tests. 3) "Elimination of gifted programs" We did this because they enhanced privilege and also didn't really seem to mater that much. 4) "Almost like a propaganda campaign to teach children that everyone's a winner, no one can be a loser, and everyone must get the same accolades no matter what" No, who wins and loses isn't actually fair and it's used to belittle people and prop up others for essentially no good reason. Some people do really poorly with this kind of negativity and people noticed their kids were miserable (or dead) 4) "The system of before was not perfect, and kids were unfairly left out, but the hard turn to "everybody's a winner" has done severe harm." I really have never encountered the "everybody's a winner" mentality. Administrators stressed taking pride in effort, but never treating a loser like a winner. Just don't feel too bad if you tried hard, and do feel a little bad about slacking your way to a win. It seems like people just lose their minds at the idea of someone saying something nice to the kid that "doesn't deserve a trophy".