Our great grandparents ventured from the old world to settle this new world, risking, sacrificing, and working for a better life. Our grandparents braved grueling covered wagon treks across the plains, deserts, and mountains to stretch the boundaries of this new world while scratching out a better life for their families by sacrificing and hard work even though outcomes were none too certain. Our parents fought in foreign wars to maintain the freedom and livelihood that their families enjoyed in this new world and help establish those freedoms worldwide.
Sadly we, circa babyboom generation, became complacent. Things were handed to us. We expected them. When they weren’t there we got mad. We rebelled against authority. We had “rights.” In short, we were entitled!
Why work? Why pay tuition? Job, what’s that? The state will pay it and if it doesn’t we’ll protest. Our children are entitled to the best education free. They are entitled to reduced class size and private tutoring if need be. We are the entitlement generation.
And what we are and what we have spanned is an embarrassment to our heritage.
This from the Las Vegas Sun: “UNLV students let their voices be heard on proposed education cuts. Organized walkout of classes joined by president, chancellor.” Yes, UNLV President Neal Smatresk, Chancellor Dan Klaich, and Chairman of the Board of Regents Dean Leavitt participated in the protest.
And this today from the Las Vegas Review Journal: “Desert Oasis students walk out of class to protest budget cuts.” Over 400 students walked out to protest state budget cuts to education. Of course, they won’t be punished because they got permission from Principal Emil Wozniak before the walked out!
The leftist educators and their poorly educated students are “entitlees.” They don’t know the meaning of work, sacrifice, or individual responsibility. They are the embodiment of the leftist model. How will they compete in a world where people do understand those virtues?
Sadly, we have been spending our hard earned tax dollars to support the exorbitant costs in terms of salaries, pensions, and general waste of this public unionized system. Economically, it is unsustainable.
Tom Motherway