Where children are wimps

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I don't know if it is in every country but definitely in the UK kids are becoming more and more wimpy. Sports days have been cancelled so they don't feel sad if they lose, everyone passes-or has thousands of chances until they do pass, skipping ropes have been banned just in case one of the kids decided to strangle another kid (I am really not making this up), classes can no longer be called 4a and 4b just in case those in 4b feel bad for not being labelled a and red pens can no longer be used because red makes you feel horrible and bad inside. Apparently it is too harsh. Green is the new red.

The last actually happened when I was in GCSE. My biology teacher didn't want to hurt any of our feelings. Because we are all just balls of squishy mush inside.

Anyway my Mum showed me a forward email she got yesterday, and I have decided to type it up here because it is so true.

Bill Gates recently gave a speech in High School about 11 things they did not and will not learn in school. And these are his 11 rules:

1. Life is not fair-get used to it!
2. The world won't care about your self-esteem. The world will expect you to accomplish something BEFORE you feel good about something.
3. You will not make $600,000 a year right out of high school. You won't be vice-president with a car phone until you earn both.
4. If you think your teacher is tough, wait till you get a boss.
5. Flipping burgers is not beneath your dignity. Your Grandparents had a different word for burger flipping: they called it an opportunity.
6. If you mess up it's not your parents fault, so don't whine about your mistakes, learm from them.
7. Before you were born your parents weren't as boring as they are now. They got that way from paying your bills, cleaning your clothes and listening to you talk about how cool you thought you were. So before you save the rainforest from the parasites of your parent's generation, try delousing the closet in your own room.
8. Your school may have done away with winners and losers, but life HAS NOT. In some schools, they have abolished failing grades and they'll give you as MANY TIMES as you want to get the right answer. That doesn't bear the slightest resemblance to ANYTHING in real life.
9. Life is not divided in to semesters. You don't get summers off and very few emplyers are interested in helping you FIND YOURSELF. Do that in your own time.
10. Television is NOT real life. In real life people actually have to leave the coffee shop and go get jobs.
11. Be nice to nerds. Chances are you'll end up working for one

Absolutely true isn't it? Schools have become so soft compared to when I went and especially compared to when my parents went. I remember the tests that we had to do, the competitions we all entered, the sets we were all put into. I thrived on competition, even though I rarely won (I won the small wierd ones. The important stuff completely passed me by.)

Can you imagine getting rid of sports day? Every year my class would come (out of 8) either 7th or 8th. Except in the last year. We managed to come in 2nd. Out cheer was louder than the class who won. We were that proud of ourselves, because we earned it. We worked bloody hard for it too. I remember all the things I had to do. And do well too. I miss sports. I think it's about time I joined a gym. Or got off my ever expanding behind.

But in other news today, I have done nothing. Absolutely nothing except write and it was good!

xoxo