In the Future, We'll All Be Victims
Or at least we'll claim we are. The New Yorker reports on a new, touchy-feely program by New York Public Schools to teach students about the hurtful effects of ridicule and teach them to be more caring and sensitive. Hey, I'm all for being polite and not needlessly insulting each other, but this whole idea that we deserve to be protected from ridicule is, well, ridiculous.
People are going to insult us--sometimes viciously. That's a fact of life and it's never going to change. We need to raise children who can handle criticism, not children who think they deserve to be protected from it. I quote noted philosopher and anti-victimologist, Denis Leary: "Life sucks. Get a helmet." How's that for a curriculum?
Hat tip: Michelle Malkin
posted by Alan Stewart Carl @ 10:05 AM
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2 Comments:
Yeah, I'm being, as Tom Cruise would say, glib. But you gotta read the article. This isn't some soild moral teachings (which I too would support) but yet another atempt by segments of our population to protect children from things they don't need to be protected from.
Common, everyday ridicule isn't a big problem on my scale of things to worry about.
It does, however, become an issue when the ridicule becomes systematic and is part of extreme bullying.
Our kids need to learn to deal with jerks because those people are never going to go away. However, when a jerk starts continuously picking on one kid just because he can, then the little shit needs to be stopped.
Just my opinion as a mother of an elementary school child.
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