Free lunches, airport activism makes kids self-centered
Articles in The Bee recently got me wondering what our education system is really accomplishing. First, we had the kids whose plane to Washington, D.C., encountered issues and were stuck at Fresno-Yosemite International Airport for the day.
The same thing happened to my wife and I on a flight yesterday. What did we do? We got upset for 15 seconds and then got in gear to do what we could to make the best of it. It seems someone with the school kids chose to call The Bee and the TV news and make a big deal out of it. Instead of making it a teachable moment about adversity in life and how to deal with it, it became an activist moment.
The other article was the “Free breakfast for all kids regardless of circumstances.” An acquaintance in Hollister told me they also get lunch in their neck of the woods. Yosemite has signs all over not to feed the animals. Why? Because they will lose the natural desire and ability to provide for themselves. When that food source is taken away, they will suffer. And the parents, is it changing their parental instincts and sense of duty also while the system creates groups of self-centered, dependent activists out of their kids? Makes me wonder.
Brian Murray, Shaver Lake
This story was originally published July 10, 2015 at 1:38 PM with the headline "Free lunches, airport activism makes kids self-centered."