JamesPC
join:2005-10-12
Orange, CA
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Re: Cry babies
what did you have to worry about back then, where you carrying 25lbs of books when you were in elementary. If you can remember, I dont think so. Just because kids in 1st grade are learning stuff that you did not start until middle school, does not make them "cry babies". Its just a fact, the books required "NOW DAYS" is much too heavy for the average kid.
P.S. enough with the sterotypes, this site is full of them. |
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ninjatutle
You can keep the "change"
join:2006-01-02
San Ramon, CA
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| We had to worry about the boogie monster, polio, if we were going to have food for the rest of the week, if we were going to be invaded by a foreign power, nuclear war, if it were going to be a good crop season, etc.
1st graders can't even read, what do they need the large history books for? If kids these days are so smart, why is everyone complaining about the education system? Why do people write off the public school system and bypass them for private schools? We need to get back to the basics first. People got by 1,000's of years without computers. What makes the kids today so special?
Yes, lets give them laptops so they can go on MySpace all day long instead of just all night long at home  |
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stomp357
join:2003-04-13
Lake Charles, LA
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said by JamesPC  :what did you have to worry about back then, where you carrying 25lbs of books when you were in elementary. If you can remember, I dont think so. Just because kids in 1st grade are learning stuff that you did not start until middle school, does not make them "cry babies". Its just a fact, the books required "NOW DAYS" is much too heavy for the average kid. P.S. enough with the sterotypes, this site is full of them. I don't know when, or where you went to school, but here the books that kids carry today are the same size, if not smaller for some subjects, than we carried back in the late 70's to early 90's. |
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PolarBear
The bear formerly known as aaron8301
join:2005-01-03
Riverside, WA
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As ridiculous as EVERYONE'S rants may be in this thread, I agree with you on this, ninjatutle:
said by ninjatutle :Yes, lets give them laptops so they can go on MySpace all day long instead of just all night long at home Persnally, I think MySpace has gotten ridiculously out of hand with today's kids (I recently blocked the site on the home computer for my kid). Let's not give our kids yet another way to AVOID education, whether it be MySpace, or anything else.
Damn, in my day, the worst thing we had to worry about was peer pressure to start smoking cigarettes.
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annon2u
@ameritech.net
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You can come up with all the excuses you want but todays kids ARE cry babies. Everything is done for them by the parents. They fail, the parents complain to the school. How about making sure they do their assignments and that those assignments are turned in? People complain about the No Child Being Left Behind as being underfunded. The fact of the matter is that the government put a lot of money on this. Parents need to teach their children to be responsible, not to be sissies/cry babies. And the government need to abolish the welfare system. And if you don't think that kids are spoiled cry babies, be a teacher and you'll find out on your first day of class just how bad it is. |
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