There are in fact schools that do not give out A/B/C/D/F grades depending on the grade level. There are many of them. When one is in the lower grades this is especially common.
In at least one youth soccer league this is exactly what’s done. My brother played on one. I think he was five. It was meant, I think, as much for the parents who want to win more than the kids do as it was for any other reason. Let them worry about who’s winning when they get older. Let 'em have fun now.
And this is bad how?
You did not give the entire quote. Moreover you didn’t even, I’d argue, capture the meaning and context behind the quote;)
[sub]Mostly it’s that I disagree with you and you didn’t get it right:D[/sub]
My bad for using examples about children. I am not an educator, or a child development specialist, or anything, so I have no authority to speak on those topics.
OTOH, the idea that “trying our best” = “success” can indeed be carried too far, IMHO.
For example, Guin thinks I’m a heartless bastard, but I’d rather be that than a starry-eyed liberal (there, I said the L-word, shoot me) like HeatherFraoch who stated that “trying and doing our best” in terms of homlessness, in this case, equaled “success”.
I guess it’s just the “do-gooder” attitude that rubs me wrong.
After all, as Thoreau said, “If I knew for a certainty that a man was coming to my house with the conscious design of doing me good, I should run for my life.”
Somehow, I doubt that very many homeless people would welcome the machinations of the likes of Heather and Guin, either.
Didn’t douchebag-incarnate say his door was left open? How is that breaking in?
Well, at least I now know that anything dumb I say that rankles fellow Dopers will be quickly forgotten by the next Kel post. Now if you’ll all excuse me, there’s an infant that’s been looking at me funny lately. I need to beat the shit out of her.
The perception of “society” as a self-perpetuating entity consisting of something more than the collection of individuals within itself – as if specific elements of these individuals somehow coagulate to form some kind of amorphous composite that fluctuates in substance and form based on popular opinion – grates on me to no end. The “societal standard” is its own cause and its own result; nothing more. It is the essence of the insubstantial paradox, created by no one, yet accepted as extant seemingly by all. Until we – and “we” includes YOU, and you, and all you other "you"s – understand and accept this notion, and realize once and for all that the individual is the greatest whole unit of humanity, we are powerless to effect any meaningful sociological change. I disagree with you on a few issues, Lib (perhaps most notably the notion that legislation should reflect upon the indefinite situational praxis), but on this stance, you will find no greater agreement. If you ever find yourself in Roanoke, come on into Texas Steakhouse and I’ll buy you a beer.
Sorry for the hijack, I guess, but this thread is going in sixteen different directions anyhow.
Not typically, no. I was in a long-term shelter for seven months, the address of which I used on whatever job applications I filled out during that time. It also had an overflow room where cots were set up every night and, like many shelters not setup for long-term stays, operated on a first-come, first-served basis. Anyone staying there one night could as well be across town the next.
It’s possible. There’s always rooms to rent, which is what I had been doing prior to losing my job and entering the shelter. About half of were gainfully employed at least part-time. I remeber ne was a security guard, another worked in the donut shop up the street, a third was a night-shift stock clerk in the nearby hardware store.
