Waking up today was awful, I felt like turning the alarm right off and saying eff it, school will be there tomorrow. But I rolled my sorry tush out of bed and got on with it. I am still feeling run down, but I bet in the next day my body will adjust, just in time for sleeping in this weekend. Nice.
My beef for the day is about my kids' school, and the fact they have been in session for 2.5 days already and no one knows who their teacher is or who thier classmates are. When I was of school age we lined up at the door and found our names on a list, we knew our techer before we even entered the building. What happened to that? They say this is less stressful on the kids, just in case they have to do any swapping once they find out final numbers for the year. When I was a kid you just had to roll with the punches, for example, there was 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place in sports, none of this everyone gets a ribbon for trying! We are not doing our kids a favor but sheltering them like this, in the real world everyone is not created equal, you have to work hard to be the best, you have to set goals and learn to deal when you fail. That's life, and in my own opionion, one of the most important lessons children need to learn. Some parents just can't handle it when their kid is not the fastest, smartest, or strongest kid in town. I am comfortable knowing my kids have their place in this world, no matter where on the bell curve they fit. So to the school system of the 21st century I beg you, stop coddling our children, for the sake of their futures.
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