Dumbing Down Our Kids: Why American Children Feel Good About Themselves But Can't Read, Write, or Add by Charles J Sykes

Charles talks about how feel-good, politically

correct teachings created a generation of kids with no concept of reality and

how this concept set them up for failure in the real

world.

1 :
Life is not fair -
get used to it!  

2 :
The world doesn't
care about your self-esteem.
The world will
expect you to accomplish something
BEFORE you feel
good about yourself.

3 :
You will NOT make
$60,000 a year right out of high school.
You won't be a
vice-president with a car phone until you earn both.

4 :
If you think your
teacher is tough, wait till you get a boss

5 :

Flipping burgers

is not beneath your dignity.

Your Grandparents

had a different word for burger flipping: 
They called it
opportunity.

6 :
If you mess up,
it's not
your parents'
fault,

so don't whine

about your mistakes, learn from them.

7 :
Before you were
born, your parents weren't as boring
as they are now.
They got that way from paying your bills,
cleaning your
clothes and listening to you
talk about how
cool you thought you were:
So before you save
the rain forest
from the parasites
of your parent's generation,
try delousing the
closet in your own room..

8 :

Your school may

have done away with winners and losers,
but
life NOT
. In some schools,
they have abolished failing grades

and they'll give

you as TIMES 
as you want to get
the right answer. *
This doesn't bear
the slightest resemblance toANYTHING
in real
life. 

9 :

Life is not

divided into semesters.

You don't get

summers off and very few employers

are interested in

helping you FIND YOURSELF.

*Do that on your

own time. 

10 :
Television is NOT
real life. 
In real life
people actually have to leave the coffee shop and go to
jobs.

11 

: Be nice to

nerds.

Chances are you'll
end up working for one..

If you

can read this... Thank a Teacher.

If you can read this in English... Thank a
Soldier!

And for life
and everything else you have... Thank God!!

Now.... think

about this and smile if you agree and please pass this

on...

If you don't
agree, go stick your head in the sand and take a deep breath!