[ SECRET POST #3481 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3481 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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[person of interest]


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[Red/Red 2]


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[Evoland 2]


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07. [SPOILERS for Oxenfree]
[WARNING for suicide]



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08. [WARNING for real people death?]

[French politics]


















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Comments

Re: "Trophy for participation"

[ariakas]

I'm in my early 30s and I got participation trophies. I also got trophies for actually winning shit. I always knew the difference, even when I was like four or five years old. People underestimate the intelligence of kids; if everyone in the class gets a gold star no matter what, you know gold stars are worthless. If only one kid gets one, they're worth something.

The reality that old geezers whinging about millennials don't like to admit is that it's actually much harder to win competitions and get into good schools now than it was in their day. The playing fields are much wider and more diverse, scores - both test scores and mean IQ scores - have gone up, and there's a larger pool of competitors for spots that haven't grown accordingly in number. These are facts. It's also a fact that previous generations had tuition that was an order of magnitude cheaper, and more jobs per applicant available to them when they graduated.

Rather than admit they fucked up the economic situation for their own children, that they had it comparatively easier when they were the same age, and that millennials have salient points about their present economic and social situations, it's easier and more palatable to the ego to write them of as a bunch of lazy entitled whiners. (By whining lazily about them and feeling entitled to generous advantages their children have never had and will never have.)

But you know, one millennial said something I didn't like on Tumblr one time, so none of that counts they suck forever special snowflakes abloobloobloo

Re: "Trophy for participation"

[(Anonymous)]

You are on the verge of geezerdom, my friend, because most of the people I hear complaining about millennials are in their late thirties or early forties. Gather your rosebuds fast.

Re: "Trophy for participation"

[ariakas]

Technically, I am a millennial (born 1982).

But I saw the whinging about millennials start among my slightly older friends way back when they were in their late 20s.

That's pretty damn early to be old.

Re: "Trophy for participation"

[(Anonymous)]

I'm in my 40s and I got letters and trophies for showing up. Granted, that was usually for something that required time and work in addition to the standard curriculum grind. I'll take my half-marathon participation medal with my crappy time because that's a few hundred hours of training most people won't do.

My philosophy as an educator comes from Firefly, "I do the job, I get paid for the job." You demonstrate competence, you get rewarded for competence. If you want to compete against others, here's a stack of competitions you do on your own time. In my classrooms, the bar is professionalism, not hitting the top five. For some assignments, that's everyone. For others, its no one and I do an asston of work explaining what they needed to get A marks.