So, on Friday the Language Arts teacher and I had a long discussion with a student. He truly, honestly believes that he could go to college tomorrow and do just fine. I mean, his whole life everyone has told him how smart he is, so why not? Everyone always tells him to believe in himself. That's good, right?
It seems to me like we've reached a point where the kids feel soooo good about themselves that they don't feel the need to try or work hard because they'll get rewarded no matter what.
We are actually being told by administration to give out candy and prizes to children for DOING THEIR WORK. They give out honor roll certificates if you have an 80% average. EIGHTY!
Teachers get told all the time to have high expectations and be rigorous and blah blah blah. But society has created children with incredibly high self-esteem and no basis for it.
Anyways, the point of this post is to say that the kid I was talking to about this is going to take an AP History exam on Monday.
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With college, comes rude awakenings.
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