“I never believed in treating everyone the same,” Parcells said.
People said the same thing 40 years ago. Funny how the sky is always falling, according to certain types.
How could they have said the same thing 40 years ago? Those things were happening 40 years ago. If they said them, they would've been factually inaccurate.
That is a fairly succinct description of generational life and culture.
Not sure on the offensive side of the ball. But on the defensive side, back in 1983, Coach Nickerson invented the 6-2 Stack Monster defense. Changed the game!!
Well holding/blocking has changed alot since I was in school.
I actually think we were better at run blocking because of that. Now days kids just stand up and get hands on a player, they don't move them off the line.
I've always thought that as well. However, I do believe and I think many teachers would agree that this current young generation, coupled with our political climate, that our country is in massive trouble and our problems as a whole are too big to ever be fixed. I see the top end students just as smart and driven as ever, and they will do great things. The rest, I see about as low of a level of apathy, disinterest, disrespect, and poor to no work ethic as I could imagine.
No child left behind has been the downfall of our education system and young kids...we no longer have failure, we just keep lower the bar to the slowest in the classroom. Thank you Bush and the Pubs... Lets give everybody a participation trophy even in school lessons there no accountability. It can be fixed but we need to start holding kids accountable and failing them if they are not making it.
I get really tired of being looked at as the mean teacher when I give a kid an assignment back and say to capitalize the first word in the sentences, and every I that is used as a pronoun, and punctuation at the end of each sentence.
Yeah how do kids learn if they don't have any consequences for not doing things correctly. But I get it, I see parents today making so many excuses for thier kids, and they are not doing them any favors, because life is hard and they will find failure everyday.
Try lowering your expectations. That's the only thing I've found that is consistently effective.
and that is what many parents want. Give my child an A no matter how stupid they are.
Boy...ain't that the truth ! It seems to be the way of the world now.
I’ve found it’s better not to have any goals. That way, you’re not disappointed when you don’t reach them. So says Peter LaFleur.
As one who said kids will ultimately face (interview/hire) when out in the Real World I cannot argue much of what you say here except I do know there are still pub school districts doing an outstanding job teaching STEM (my field is actually R&D/QA/Chemistry) but they are definitely in the minority these days so sorry to say. As for the Government look at BOTH parties but this is all just my opinion................
Those are the top 10-15%. They haven’t changed. Always been that way and how that group is educated. Same for the bottom 10% or so. It’s that “average” middle that really seems to be suffering, IMHO. The expectations have continually been lowered, and those are the kids that will always do what’s barely expected of them. They are the ones that aren’t meeting their potential because of hold-harmless and penalty free deadlines and such. Lowered expectations will never affect the top or the bottom.
Top notch observation. Saw evidence of this last month at the Greater KC Science Fair. Same schools producing the top student projects it seems. The other thing I notice (not new been the case for many years) is how they do try to give every project a ribbon. That, in my opinion, sends the wrong signal that mediocre or below work is acceptable. Out here in the real World life ain't fair and it can be very cut throat because our ultimate interest is 100 percent business. We are not so abstract we forget the fact we are all human with all its imperfections but competition is keen and the average to below scientist won't cut it.
This, very sadly, happens in College too. Was even the case all the way back to when I attended in the mid 80s.
