I remember seeing Jerry Seinfeld's comments floating around on, I believe, it was Saturday. A few hours later, I brought it up during dinner with my parents and said something along the lines of, "I can't believe we're sinking so far as to give kids a day off from school if their candidate loses." Fortunately, my parents agreed, as it's teaching kids nothing but to run away from problems as opposed to confronting them.
Mental toughness has more than gone to the wayside in this country, and, hopefully, more rational people will see what had gone on at Fieldston (and I'm sure other schools) as a wake-up call. Fieldston's choice, and really any school's choice to "create safe spaces" throws us further into that culture of dependency.
We need fewer safe spaces, fewer concessions because people are feeling distressed, and rebuild a culture that teaches people, especially young people, to face their problems head-on. Scary? Absolutely. But, long-term, they'll likely confront issues they would have previously run away from in the past. It's a character arc, really. But one that resides in real life.
I remember seeing Jerry Seinfeld's comments floating around on, I believe, it was Saturday. A few hours later, I brought it up during dinner with my parents and said something along the lines of, "I can't believe we're sinking so far as to give kids a day off from school if their candidate loses." Fortunately, my parents agreed, as it's teaching kids nothing but to run away from problems as opposed to confronting them.
Mental toughness has more than gone to the wayside in this country, and, hopefully, more rational people will see what had gone on at Fieldston (and I'm sure other schools) as a wake-up call. Fieldston's choice, and really any school's choice to "create safe spaces" throws us further into that culture of dependency.
We need fewer safe spaces, fewer concessions because people are feeling distressed, and rebuild a culture that teaches people, especially young people, to face their problems head-on. Scary? Absolutely. But, long-term, they'll likely confront issues they would have previously run away from in the past. It's a character arc, really. But one that resides in real life.