Goodbye, sweet bunnies!

annettemarc wrote:

emymarek721 wrote:

rymflaherty wrote:
While it is a generalization, having worked the past decade with kids of all ages, I have seen a definitive shift. There is a sense of entitlement, lack of accountability and an overall mindset of, I want what I want, I want it now, and in the easiest way possible.

I'm sure everyone doesn't meet that definition, but a lot of what gets posted here does.
Then again it really isn't a surprise...
Maybe this is what happens when you don't allow scores in little league games. Have no trophies for field day, instead giving every kid a ribbon that says "if you had fun today you won". Or having your Mom go to the school and complain/blame a teacher for her kid getting a bad grade instead of facing the root of the problem (exs of things ive seen)...

I try to co e here for news, but I usually wind up frustrated reading the posts. I have to remember there are more, more civil sites dedicated to the game.
I enjoyed the event despite not getting 3 of the main prizes. The way I see it, if they were easy to get they wouldn't be special.

I'd still be playing it had my game not updated automatically today....hey....maybe I should sue EA because its not fair other people are still playing Easter...I at least better go starta thread to complain, because I need my anger validated. :p

Agreed! It's so sad to see how schools h ave taken the fun out of competition. And not just schools! Even in professional teams! We're so afraid of teaching kids that, if you work hard, and train hard, you can win! That 'w' word has almost become a 4-letter word! It's so sad.

I'm stunned. Have you not been reading the hundreds of complaints about the Easter event?

You think kids aren't being taught the work ethic???? I sort of thought that the work ethic was what the kids are DEMANDING in this Easter event. They WANT to work hard and get something for working hard.

Even in a GAME.

They do NOT want to sit back and spin a wheel and be happy for what they happen to get by touching a button.

Not even in a GAME.

By your comments, it would seem they want the sit-back-and-spin option. NOT EVEN IN A GAME. I'm pretty sure that believing in being-rewarded-for-hard-work is what we WANT them to get used to.

Seems to me, from the complaints about this event, parents and teachers are doing a pretty good job of getting them ready for being productive, and for NOT expecting something for nothing.


Me? Personally, I think the work ethic is ptui. Worked out well for me and mine, but I've seen far, far, far too many people work a lifetime and follow all the platitudes about working long hours and two jobs and end up with squat. Real life IS what this Easter Event was about ... work your butt off, spend your life turning the little hamster wheel, and discover that, in the end, it's all determined by a rigged wheel, with odds astronomically against you. And to think I spent my first 55 years as an ultraconservative.

And PLEASE don't get me started on students. My husband, son, niece, other niece, sister-in-law, aunt, other sister-in-law, two nephews and soon my other son are high school teachers. In everything from inner city to upscale suburb, in Boston, San Diego, Los Angeles, Seattle, and Iowa. My husband - 28 years, my sister-in-law -- 20 years, and on and on. The shortest has been my younger son. Everyone else has a MINIMUM of 10 years. Every one of them has seen "change".

Change? You BET it's changed. It is TERRIFYING what we've done to the students over the past decade. They're robots. Little Standardized Student-Robots. In the past, we could have a term of high school where we'd mess up, get D's and have to repeat classes and move on. But today's students? They need to start planning for their lives when they're freakin' 12 years old. 6th grade class schedule better get you ready for Honors classes in 7th grade. 7th grade? Better get that advanced math so you can get into honors in 8th grade. And if you don't get on that track soon, the train leaves the station and never comes back.

Make a misstep, and so long to a decent college. Standardized tests year after year and college level classes and no textbooks. I'd rather have a hot poker stuck in my eye than be a high school student today. We're turning them into little Stepford Students. This is definitely gonna come back to haunt us. They can't go their whole lives without this finally blowing up in our faces.

But maybe it's just a bizarre coincidence that all the relatives I have who are teachers (I'm sure I missed some) have identical stories to tell about what we're doing to students.

Don't know which school system you've spent the last decades teaching in. If it's different there, PLEASE send me the name of the school. My son who's in his credential classes right now is willing and able to relocate.

/end rant

I think you and I read something different in his post. It happens. :)