dear lord........

so nobodys getting hurt in the classrooms?

does that mean that the kids no longer go and beat the fuck out of each other on the playground?

 

Nope. My son came home from school last week and he had two kids in his Kindergarten class get separated because they were swinging at each other.

I've met the kids and I've met the parents of these two boys. They are in for one rough road the rate their going.

 

i think thats great i never use red where guidlines say im supposed to on any documents for kids or staff. constructive reinforcement-not critism. and yes i use purple and pink and draw smiley faces unless it's an official document.

 

that's actually a great idea. i feel so bad for the kids who aren't ever invited can you imagine how that would feel?

 

jeez. what nonsense. if you just invite them outside of school all the kids who are invited just get together and talk about it in class anyway. everyone gets left out at some point in time. it's a part of life. too much coddling turns all out kids into egotistical spoiled shitheads who think they're entitled to nothing but good in life. sorry, but that's just not so. better to deal with some petty hurts when you're young than to have none to prepare you for the big ones inevitably heading your way. there's no other way to emotionally prepare for life than to experience it. criticism is what is heard. not "constructive reinforcement." no matter how you word it, they still know they got it wrong. might as well be honest and open about it. because his or her bosses and the rest of the world are not about to mince words when they fuck up.

 

F-







See, don't you feel just a bit upset by that?

 

children being raised (and apparently taught) in protective bubbles will be shocked by and ill-prepared for adulthood

not to mention that they will be total assholes by then

 

If you shield kids from perfectly natural emotions, they wont know how to deal with them later in life.

 

I always F- thought stood for Free thinker!

 

99% of North America already feels that way, like they're entitled to so much more than everyone around them. it's awful. *twitches*



anywho, red ink is a lot more traumatizing to post-secondary students than kids in elementary. You see it, eyes bug out, hand starts shaking, eye starts twitching. Mad scrabbling to go the end of the end of hte paper and find out your grade while trying to pretend those sentences scribbled out by the evil red pen are still there. Gah, kids don't realize the connotation of a red pen at that age, most of 'em at least.

 

do you hear yourselves? bring kids into this world and teach them what a scary life they will have? why should anyone bring children into the world if all you are going to do is make their entire lives difficult to "toughen" them up for life?

 

I think rugby should be a mandatory credit for graduation.

Thats a lesson lil Johnny won't forget.

 

Why do you want to weaken them? Its called survival of the fittest. Its human nature to want their kids to be strong. Mentally, physically, and emotionally. Everyone knows that to be strong you have to exercise. The red ink is just a small emotional exercise to the kid.

 

I couldn't agree more!

Well said

 

it's not weak to enjoy life

 

I stole my teachers red grading pen in high school... hee hee hee

 

A stupid little cake party when youre six is hardly enjoying life if ten years later the kid commits suicide after being rejected somehow.

 

better children are innoculated to life's disappointments when those disappointments are small than to leave them totally unprepared. life isn't enjoyable at all when you think it's supposed to be one great big "i'm so special! nothing ever goes wrong in my life" parties and it turns out to be anything but.

 

We could hit them with boards with nails in them daily. That'l toughen the little bastards up. <HEAVY SARCASM>

I can't believe the lack of empathy for children I am seeing in this thread. Colors and lynsey are some of the only few who seem to really care.

HURTING children when they are little does NOT make them bettter people later on.

Never mind...........I forgot, this is Random Thoughts.

 

hurting children doesn't make then any better, but I don't see how a red pen is really harmful. You need to see where your mistakes are and correct them. Red wasn't chosen to be "mean" or "hurtful" it's just been standard for years and years.

I wish someone would mark my life up with a red pen so I could fix some of this crap!

I agree with the statement that you need to prepare kids for disappointments in life. If they don't get soemthing right, while it IS bad to make them feel bad for it, it is neccessary to point it out and have it fixed.

What is so bad about the color red? Does it really hurt some children's feelings, or are those children just dealing with the disappointment, and would react to green corrective ink the same way?