From Students, a Misplaced Sense of Entitlement-- A Guest Post

I read this letter from an adjunct faculty member this morning. It really ties in with my last post.


From Students, a Misplaced Sense of Entitlement

By Elayne Clift

It was the semester from hell. In my 20 years as an adjunct faculty member, I had taught in the Ivy League and at community colleges, in Brattleboro and Bangkok, in under­graduate and graduate schools. Never had I seen such extraordinarily bad behavior in my students.

It began the first night of the graduate class, spring semester 2010, when the students attacked the syllabus for being too demanding (although it was premised on previous syllabi for the same course at the same institution). The evening went steadily downhill. I'll spare you the gruesome details, but the next day I got a call from an administrator asking me to deal with the complaints that some students had registered about me and the course. The charges they'd made were ludicrous and easily explained, but I was stunned.

Like a broken watch, idiots are right once in a while

I read this story today. I agree with the President on this one. Children should be taught in the way that facilitates eagerness to learn. That feeds their curiosity. 


Sadly today that does not happen in most schools. As Obama states, "All you're learning about is how to fill out a little bubble on an exam and little tricks that you need to do in order to take a test and that's not going to make education interesting."


I agree. This has been an issue for us since we made the final decision to home school our children 8 years ago. Children are no longer taught the basics they need to become intelligent adults. They are programmed to pass a test that in turn generates money for the school. They retain very little of this information and many lose interest in learning period. By the time they reach high school they have very little knowledge and most are incapable of doing research. They are programmed to recite the "answers" someone else has given them without any thought that that answer may be wrong.

Child birth is a blessing.

 Genesis 1:28And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth. 

We are commanded by God to bear children. Children are blessings. They are our eternal gifts from Him. How can we deny Him of these children?

Is the pain of childbirth  the curse of Eve.

The truth about childbirth

Its understandable to be bombarded with questions after having a baby, esp one who was born at home with absolutely no outside medical intervention. I will try to answer as many as I can.

First let me say there is no better way to introduce a child into the world. The calm serene environment a home provides is ideal for such an event. Not only is the mother in a comfortable location and can move about freely, to make her delivery easier, the newborn is reprieved of all the prodding the medical community deems necessary and is justified in doing to the most delicate of humans. The first thing a newborn needs is skin to skin contact with mother. Nursing as soon as baby is ready is very important. I think many adults forget that the baby also went thru an incredible ordeal.. They have just been born. They have exerted energy and have wiggled their way out into our cold stark world. They also need a bit of quiet downtime. It just seems cruel to do it any other way.

Truth

Yesterday in class, we talked about our civic duty and what qualities we look for in our politicians. One answer that came up was truthfulness.. I think that is yet the most important attribute.. Followed by selflessness.. The founding documents, the words we based our entire country on, were divinley inspired. We need to look for those qualities in ourselves as well.. When we look to a candidate to represent us we need to look for an honest selfless person who;s only goal is to uphold the Constitution. We need to be selfless and look to the person who is going to do whats best for us, not necessarily what we want. We have gotten to where our last few generations will choose who ever offers the biggest prize. We can only be offered what was rightfully ours to begin with.. We have do not have a right to another persons property or services.. To allow our government the power to "distribute" such rights we open the door to be on the alternate side. We are a free people. Those rights are given to us first by our creator. They can be oppressed by those in power, IF WE ALLOW them..

38 Years Ago

38 years ago, just over 3 years before my own birth, because of a woman Norma L. McCorvey, aka Jane Roe, and her legal team, The US Supreme Court decided that a womans right to have an abortion falls under the Fourteenth Amendment to the US Constitution.

1. All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.     

And the 9th Amendment

The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people.