Posted by
Conservative Libertarian on Thursday, October 30, 2008 10:45:22 PM
It's a shame really, that many of the people my age are so blind when it comes to philosophy and politics. They don't know what drives them, they have no sense of self. They beleive in only whats shown to them and follow when led. This is not the way in which life should be lived. This is nothing but an easy path and will attribute to a lack of self reliance.
I wholeheartidly beleive my generation has become lax in the essence that they have never had anything to fight for. Some may view it differently with the war on terror and our presence in Iraw & Afghanistan. But there has been no major global conflict, on the scale of WWII in which my generation has been directly effected. We've had it relatively easy when it comes to life.
When I graduated high school in 2003 in New York, we had several state exams which we had to pass in order to graduate. They accounted for 1/5 of our grade, and if we failed the test, we didn't fail the class, but we could not receive our diploma. One of the tests which had gone under much scrutiny was our science examination. It was the second year this test was being given under it's new revisions and was viewed as being a very difficult test, which it was. There was some material we never covered in our class by the time we had taken the test. I had approached my teacher on this issue afterwards and she said because that topic took up such a small portion of the test, and that these tests are not given out in advance for teachers to see so they know what material will be on them, she didn't get into that subject because it wouldn't really effect our overall score on the test, except for perhaps 4-5%.
It turns out after the test scores were released.... nearly 1/3 of all the test takers FAILED the test. A failing score was deemed to be below 65%... because so many students failed the test.... the state decided it would be best to lower that years passing grade to a 50%.
What does that teach my generation? I'll tell you... it teaches them that even if they do poorly, they will succeed. That they don't need to do their best to get ahead in life.