I’m thinking about suing the Ryerson School of Journalism. By this stage in my career, I thought I’d be a senior correspondent with Fox News. Since I’m not, I think Ryerson owes me an apology — and a cheque.
I’ve been inspired by Tiffany Peters who recently filed a lawsuit against her former high school, blaming it for kyboshing her dreams of becoming a dancer and an actress.
It used to be, those experiencing “the agony of defeat” would chalk it up to "stuff happening."
But for Generation Entitled, there’s always gotta be somebody to blame and somebody has to pay.
Fortunately, Tiffany experienced the agony of defeat in the courtroom but incredibly, she's contemplating an appeal.
Obviously the judge is to blame for her courtroom failure.
I say suck it up. Dust yourself off and apply yourself. Maybe you shall achieve something. When life knocks you down you have a responsibility to yourself and your self respect to pick yourself up.
This women need to sit down and make herself a life plan. What she wishes to achieve in life and then write down the baby step task analysis as to how she shall achieve it. By setting small realistic goals, achievable goals that can be measured she will see she is in control of her own destiny.
Education provides you tools with which to achieve your goals. It does not promise success. Success is up to the individual. Remember, I believe it was Thomas Edison that discovered 101 ways of how not to make a light bulb before he was successful.
Failure is only a disaster if you do not learn from the mistakes.
I think the way in which educators got it wrong is when they provide children with this false sense of specialness. They did this through giving everyone an award instead of making it a competition.
Guess what children? You may be special to your mother & father, but you are no more special than anyone else. Suck it up and get used to it!
In real life we compete. If we apply ourselves and work very hard we may get lucky and succeed. Success never comes easily. It takes a lifetime. When you fail you can only blame yourself.
Instead we got JT.
Look at what he accomplished by being a part time drama queen … whoops – teacher.
Let’s see…that was only 46 years ago; I don’t think the school is there or any of the teachers are still alive, and I can’t remember what it was that I really wanted to be, but, hey, maybe I can come up with something.
Or maybe I should try one of these freebie ads that are showing up on TheRebel website…freeloaders who don’t want to pay for their advertising
--for when she starts ’thundering ’ around.Its the self-entitled generation. Years ago a survey of US high schools showed that a majority of students believed that fame and fortune would just fall in their laps. All they needed was sports or being an entertainer. Without training or skill, they would succeed.
I remember while at work at a major university overhearing three students discussing how one of them failed badly. The other two told him that he paid to be at that school so he was entitled to an “A”. The suggestion was to go back to the prof and demand the grade he so richly deserved – or else. He agreed with them. Great job skill – being a thug.
(Yes, I know it’s a joke, I just like nitpicking inconsequential anachronisms.)
Personally, I think that most of our schools the schools should be sued for the horrible job they’ve done of preparing students for life. The last couple of generations of school graduates should launch the biggest class action suit in history and sue their former schools for failing to educate them. When high school graduates:
- do not know when WW II was fought or who the key participants (countries and leaders) were
- think that the Titanic was one of the ships on Columbus’ first voyage
- can’t multiply by 2 or make change without a calculator or computer
- etc. etc.
then something is clearly wrong with our schools.
And she got the money to pursue this action from…?
Contingency deal with a lawyer who has nothing better to do.
Blame someone or something else.
And the rest of us pay.
I wonder what the government spend in defeating this typical entitled Canadian claim?