Quote Originally Posted by Whistler View Post
I think it's a general lack of accountability from the top down.
That. It's always someone else's fault.

My wife is a university professor and fails a handful of students every single semester. An F on the transcript likely doesn't please their tuition-paying parents. Nearly every one of those students balks, after the grade, claiming their reasons for not measuring up are special, unlike the others that failed the class - they came up short but there's a good reason, unlike the others. They generally don't take kindly to being told that their excuse isn't any more valid than the next persons. They failed, they aren't special.

The 'everyone gets a trophy' society we have coddled is going to prove rather interesting as time goes on, I almost wish I still watched TV news. Almost.