Charles Sykes, author of DUMBING DOWN OUR KIDS, tells how
liberal, feel good, politically correct garbage has created a
generation of kids with no concept of reality, set up for failure
in the real world. He has volunteered for graduates a list
of things they did not learn in school.
Rule 1:
Life is not fair; get used to it.
Rule 2:
The world won't care about your self-esteem. The world will
expect you to accomplish something before you feel good about
yourself.
Rule 3:
You will not make 40 thousand dollars a year right out of high
school. You won't be a vice president with a car phone until
you earn both.
Rule 4:
If you think your teacher is tough, wait till you get a boss.
He doesn't have tenure.
Rule 5:
Flipping burgers is not beneath your dignity. Your grandparents
had a different word for burger flipping; they called it opportunity.
Rule 6:
If you screw up, it's not your parents' fault so don't whine
about your mistakes. Learn from them.
Rule 7:
Before you were born your parents weren't as boring as they
are now. They got that way paying your bills, cleaning your
room, and listening to you tell how idealistic you are. So before
you save the rain forest from the bloodsucking parasites of
your parents' generation, try delousing the closet in your own
room.
Rule 8:
Your school may have done away with winners and losers but life
has not. In some schools they have abolished failing grades,
they'll give you as many times as you want to get the right
answer. This, of course, bears not the slightest resemblance
to anything in real life.
Rule 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.
Rule 10:
Television is not real life. In real life people actually have
to leave the coffee shop and go to jobs.
Rule 11:
Be nice to nerds. Chances are you'll end up working for one.
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