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File this under the “Everyone is special” category and hand out the participation trophies. Ready for this one?
According to the New York Post, students aren’t allowed to publicly celebrate when they get accepted into college to avoid hurting their classmates’ feelings.
Reports the New York Post, at Horace Mann School, seniors must put away their Yale or Princeton or Dartmouth t-shirts so they don’t make their classmates who didn’t get into their first-choice schools feel bad.
At Packer Collegiate Institute, thrilled seniors can’t post their good news on Facebook.
At Calhoun School, students are counseled on the right (subdued) way vs the wrong (“I got in!”) way to share their accomplishments when it comes to getting accepted to college.
“The city’s selective public high schools are also implementing rules to save the egos of students forced to attend ‘safety schools.’”
Maybe then their safety schools can teach them how to deal with disappointment, because they’re going to need it.
Ugh! I am so sick of the “Schpecial Snowflayke” mentality. Disappointment is a part of life and it’s this “can’t hurt their feelings” mentality putting things from achievements to politics at a standstill. It was bad enough that parents want to be their kids BFFE’s…. now we have to have someone come around making everything fair?
They should just start handing out helmets….
I think it’s unfair. You’re right,they have to learn how to deal with disappointment. They have to realized there’s life other than getting into college. And beside, people need to get hurt to be strong. You know what I mean. Life is not easy, they will get hurt in some point of their lives, so they have to be ready.