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This is the stupidest thing I've ever read. I took the bus to middle school. Guess what, It's EFFING cold outside. So if the kid down the street is in his moms van waiting for the bus and I'm invited to join them, damn right I'm joining them. I love how old people look at children and call them soft for doing things that make sense. If it's 10 degrees outside, you're not "hard" or whatever you want to call it for waiting outside, you're just stupid.

And the sickos are aware of the media coverage they will receive which is probably adding fuel to the problem. The same "too much media coverage encourages these guys" is spouted whenever there is a mass shooting. Based on this kind of premise, it's altogether possible that there are indeed more sickos than ever before.

You are an adult though. No one is saying their parents used to bike or walk to work.

Kids are softer. If you were to go to any school 20 to 30 years ago, you would not see dozens and dozens of parents dropping off their kids or kids waiting in their parents' cars for the bus. You would see bus after bus unloading kids and kids standing out for the bus. The only time you saw parents dropping off their kids is when they missed the bus.

Also, I admit that my generation is softer than my parents'. The country as a whole is getting softer. Yes, it is the parents who are the ones to blame. Ask teachers how parents react when they tell them their little Johnny is being a little shit in class. Not that long ago, if you got in trouble at school, you were dreading when Dad got home from work.

that is the worst comparison in this thread

"Man I really wish I would have tried harder and gotten an award at my middle school honors night!"...

-No one ever

UCLA's basketball team is case in point for kids being soft. That team cannot deal with adversity.

he was probably a specialist.

well, it looks like they actually just canceled a special ceremony and chose to recognize them at some EOY assembly

“Ipswich Middle School is dedicated to high achievement in every facet of our students’ lives. We did not cancel honors recognition as erroneously reported by FOX News Boston,” he wrote. “We changed our Honors Night from an exclusive ceremony at night to an all-inclusive ceremony during the day in the presence of the entire student body.”

He continued, seemingly contradicting the letter he sent to parents explaining the change, “This isn’t the dumbing down of America. This isn’t everyone getting a trophy. The same kids who were honored before are being honored now.”

“Ipswich Middle School is dedicated to high achievement in every facet of our students’ lives."

I stopped there because no, clearly they are not. They are taking away reason(s) to commit high achievement. I understand there might be a separate ceremony but the point is that he still took something away from them that they worked for.

What is interesting to me is that this would be changed from an exclusive event to an all-inclusive ceremony, meaning the kids who wouldn't have been invited will now be present for the recognition of others for their achievements. This guy has no clue what he's doing and this is spiraling into ridiculousness, lol. He needs to just stfu and leave things how they were planned to be.