Posted on 11/24/2015 8:29:55 AM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
Excellent response and I have to agree based on my kids and their friends. Hard working, striving to succeed, getting good educations. Now if only my oldest would come to grips with the reality of “progressives” and how they would destroy everything we hold dear. But she is extremely hard working and always complains about slackers. Too bad she doesn’t yet understand progressives reward and encourage slackers.
I think some kids are less secure than maybe the kids in older generations, but then again they have cause to be. Look at the divorce and never married rate amongst their parents.
I think the older one gets the more we seem to gloss over the weirdness that our own generation had at the same age.
College kids always think they have re-invented the wheel and most of us wonder why we ever taught the little monsters to talk.
10 years from now these millenials will have their own little delicate flowers to deal with and we can all have a good laugh.
As they say "Lighten up Francis".
What Nissy wants are easier classes so she can succeed. How about these:
-- Black rule and resurgent African economic development
-- The Congo - The Silicon Valley of Africa
-- How Somalia revolutionized chip manufacturing
-- Safe, prosperous and vibrant cities: A history of Democrat city governance
-- How welfare has fostered self reliance and personal responsibility in America
Nissy should be able to work through the course material for the classes above in about 30 minutes and graduate.
That’s the one. Her hair is pink now.
Cancer.
Are they really that worthless? Or are they seeing if they can game the system? Kids go through episodes of 'pushing the envelope' to see if they can move boundaries.
I think it is time to reopen the discussion about whether everyone is necessarily fit to attend college.
Forty years ago a Bachelors Degree was worth something, but that has been diminished by the ability of anyone with sufficient funding to finally get a degree in a topic that once would have been a chapter in a textbook.
If this student can't handle that dumbed down curriculum, I think we could find the answer to getting the jobs done Americans supposedly would not do (for when we send the illegals home).
sorry
I have two millennials. I love them dearly. One is passionate about his interests and interested in politics with the typical open mind of the young. He even listens to me, though he doesn’t always agree. The other is younger and busy and not into politics at all. He grew up as a Baby FReeper though, met JimRob, went to many protests.
She also votes for Libertarians.
Just tragic
Remember, some of em are driving their parents’ cars! ;)
Everybody is somebody else’s weirdo.
Congrats back. I know you and you spouse worked hard and sacrificed some things to have great offspring!
Or so the people in the media who report on polls of carefully selected populations would have us believe.
And who pumped them full of that crap? And who was guarding the guards?
I guess you can blame the lumber if you don't like the way the house turned out, but more often than not it is the craftsmen to blame.
The parents of millennials have allowed their kids heads to be pumped full of mush, and get to share that blame for not paying attention.
Part of human nature is the desire to blend in with the herd, and they are only acting like what they think the herd does. Watch MTV for a while and you will get a sample of that. Now they can access that drivel on everything from a computer to a phone to teevee, so they are never without it.
The selfsame media which ignores everyone from firemen to fighter pilots, Medal of Honor recipients to the real genius kids who are hyperachievers, makes heroes of people who can do back flips on bicycles, skateboards, or splatter out a profane jingle to a tribal rhythm.
When the bar for achievement has been set somewhere other than what has been traditionally viewed as accomplishment, when their parents (in some states) legalize weed for recreation, and when hard work, honesty, and achievement are presented as either a game for suckers or the destruction of Gaia, don't expect too much from the people who are seeing that as their example.
It is the parents who have allowed, even promoted this crap.
Many of the kids I know come from more hardscrabble beginnings, and don't buy into that rubbish. They want to work, but are held back by all sorts of rules designed to keep them out of the workforce long past the age where they would have developed skill sets and a work ethic in years past.
I recommend that our grandchildren become as proficient in English, math, and science as they can, that they learn History--especially what affects them, but that they learn a trade as well. If there is something they passionately want to pursue, fine, go to college, but not just because everyone else is doing it. Plumbers, Mechanics, and electricians (to name a few) are making decent livings out there while people with BA degrees are struggling to make ends meet and pay off college loans.
You act as if all the decay in society started with Gen Y. In reality, it was the baby boomers who introduced practically all the evil policies in this country. The Homosexual movement, the legalization of abortion, the rampant use of drugs...the banning of God in the education system. All under the watch of baby boomers. Morals and work ethic are things that your parents teach you. You don’t automatically come by them. So yeah, I say the last 3 generations have been perfectly worthless and we should all die for our worthlessness. You don’t work, you don’t eat. You die. I think that’s a just system.
People are so brainwashed it’s unbelievable.
Yuri Bezmenov said,â€The demoralization process in the United States is basically completed already for the last 25 years. Actually, it’s over fulfilled because demoralization now reaches such areas where not even Comrade Andropov and all his experts would even dream of such tremendous success. Most of it is done by Americans to Americans thanks to lack of moral standards. As I mentioned before, exposure to true information does not matter anymore. A person who was demoralized is unable to assess true information. The facts tell nothing to him, even if I shower him with information, with authentic proof, with documents and pictures. ...he will refuse to believe it.... That’s the tragedy of the situation of demoralization.â€
That’s what happened to the young people.
Demoralization has permeated our society for decades.
bump that - my oldest ended up with 12 or more AP courses out of high school and basically tested out of her college requirements. To the point that her counselor said - well you can pretty much take what you want. Her classmates were talking about having taken 2 or 3 and when they asked her they were in shock. One of them asked if she’d done anything besides study. She just smiled and pointed at her varsity jacket. (ok dad brag over)
There are good and bad in every generation. Even the boomers had volunteers for service and those who just plowed away at daily life. I blame the media for promoting it more as much as I do the educators and the individuals.
“What one generation tolerates, the next generation will embrace.â€-John Wesley
These movements were started by baby boomers. What makes you think that other generations would not embrace it?
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