Tuesday, February 28, 2012

I want a Trophy for Losing

Ah competition, one of the building blocks for how society came to be. competition is what makes people strive to be the best that they can be, and if you come up short, then you need to work harder to be the best. Now, of course right now if I worked as hard as possibly could to try and be a NFL running back that would never happen, I mean certain goals have to be limited. In school, if you try really hard and make good grades you will be first in your class, winning. This whole concept is great! It's what keeps society strong, and it is what keeps people pushing other people to be better at everything they do. This is all sounds perfect right? Well for some reason the new generation of parents and children are seeing things a little differently...

In school now there is a policy called "No Child Left Behind", which in simple terms is, a new order movement that basically prevents a child from failing a grade. Why did they do this? Well, it seems that parents said their children would be embarrassed if their child failed a grade, and would be behind all of their friends. So from now on, you can literally sit in class all day, with nothing in your hand, never participate, never do homework, and after 13 years of public schooling...you will have a diploma in your hands that you probably can't even read. These are the kids getting into college. Why? well since their parents didn't give a fuck about them, and they're equally as stupid, the government realized, hey they don't make a lot of money, let us help their retard child pay for school! That way everybody wins. Because nobody would want to be embarrassed because they don't do well in school...no instead even if you are smart, you still wind up in the same spot as all the dumb kids. Competition. Erased.

In youth sports or camps, all children have to win some sort of award or trophy at the end of the season or camp. So when I have a beached whale roll onto the soccer field, cries, bitches, and sweats too much after three minutes of playing, I have to give him a trophy for "best personality" in the group. If he doesn't get an award, he would be sad and even more fat because the other kids won an award and he didn't...so what happens? Mommy bitches that we were too hard on her fat fuck child, and he has every right to win something that the other kids do. So from now on, no matter how bad you suck at something you win an award so you can feel like a winner. If this worked in real life, everyone would be the CEO of their companies right? I mean if Ernie get's promoted I want to too. It's not fair that he got promoted and I didn't. At some schools, children are discouraged from playing games like tag, or sports. Why? Oh well because that same fat kid who sucked at soccer camp, he can never tag anyone on the playground which in turns leads to his mommy coming to the rescue again. Lastly, a high school cheer leading coach in a near by area was fired for calling the girls on his team "heffer's" which apparently is slang for a cow or something. In an uproar their parents came to the school and got the man fired. He got fired for a word. One single word. The man has a wife and kid's and now will probably never work in the school system again. I saw what the girls looked like, and to be honest they probably could have thrown up after a few meals. I wish I only got called a heffer when I played sports.

I could go on forever about how pathetic society is getting with competitive nature. Even when I was in school, you failed, you stay in the grade. If you lost you were the loser. When you applied for college, if you're grades and SAT aren't good enough, you're not going. Now, everyone has to be a winner in some way, nobody wants to get their feelings hurt, or told they can't do that. Nobody wants anybody to be better than the other person because that's embarrassing to the person who isn't as good.

The point is we need competition. Competition still exist in the real world where things matter. We have a bunch of children running around who have never lost, never heard a cuss word, had everything handed to them, and are probably still breast feeding in high school. Parents need to find their backbone and children need to sack up. Don't make life a military school, but it's time to cut the cord people.

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