"When she started teaching 31 years ago, she says, "I could make objective observations about my kids without parents getting offended. But now we handle parents a lot more delicately. We handle children a lot more delicately. They feel good about themselves for no reason. We've given them this cotton-candy sense of self with no basis in reality. We don't emphasize what's best for the greater good of society or even the classroom."

I am disturbed and concerned. Please don't berate my children for being children but don't handle them with kid-gloves. Help them become the people we know they can become not the people we fear that might become.