Todays Kids
Right Wing Nation goes off on todays kids (and adults)
Students. Don't. Read.Go read it.
When undergraduates don't understand why they can't use LOL! in a research paper, we have a serious problem.
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That's what I have gotten every time I have caught a student cheating and talked to him about it. And I've noticed that in the last few years, students show no shame or embarrassment, no guilt, no remorse.
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My grade was my responsibility, and my parents were not going to let me get away with foisting it off on somebody else.
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Every student thinks the rules don't apply to him — just everybody else.
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We're endlessly entertained by Jessica Simpson's acne, Britney Spears' wearing no panties in public, and the most recent idiotic comments by the airheaded morons in Hollywood.
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Turn on almost any one of the so-called educational shows (either kids' shows or what passes for documentaries these days) and you are fed a string of those context-free soundbytes.
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We need to reassert morality and ethics. We need to reassert personal responsibility and end this culture of endless victimization and entitlement. And we need to act before we commit cultural suicide.