Self-esteem movement is not the right way to prepare young adults for future

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Every school believes in exercising their own certain ways to praise their students; some similar some contrasting. In some years back, Schools attempted to spread the practice of raising students' self-esteem in schools no matter what mistakes he or she had. This worked for some schools while others didn't agree with the practice. Using the self-esteem movement and praising students even for poor performance is not a good way to prepare young adults for the future.

In the eyes of society, every student should deliver an equal chance to learn and be credited for their good work This self-esteem movement made society credit students not only for their good work but also for poor quality work. By doing so, the students who did do a remarkable job are counted as equal to those students who did half as good of a job. This is not fair to those students that did better work because they aren't getting the praise they deserve. Consequently, in the future, the students who did the inferior work are going to think doing poor quality work is going to be okay to get them through in life. The self-esteem movement is teaching those underachieving students that it is okay to do a lesser job, and in reality, that mindset will not get an adult far through life.

Personally, I believe that self-esteem comes from within someone and cannot be passed on to a per If a student was incredibly confident in his or her own skin and thought well of themselves, they would already have high self-esteem and wouldn't need someone to tell them that they are doing a great job. Whereas if a student who had low self-confidence in themselves would more than likely need that extra praise to make their self-esteem higher. But for that student that needs the praise to feel better, they still are always going to be unconfident in themself and won't progress too far in life.

As stated in the comic, "students should bring in confidence through actual achievement, not through grade inflation and empty pr." If a student continually gets praise for doing nothing, the student isn't going to have that drive and desire to want to improve and strive to do better. Being rewarded for good work should be a privilege, not something guaranteed. Later on, in the student's life, the student is going to expect to be praised which will not be the case in the real world. Just like the comic states, " The real-world urges results. It doesn't much care whether you hold yourself in high regard." The students who are used to the self-esteem craze in school are going to do humdrum work and think it is amazing; others aren't going to think the same.

A student should be praised in school only if he or she has done a remarkable job on a task given by the instructor. I don't agree with the self-esteem movement on still giving students praise even if they have given poor performance and made many mistakes. How is the student ever presumed to progress if he or she thinks doing a task with half effort and inaccuracy is okay? A teacher is supposed to point out the student's mistakes so that he or she can fix the problem and know in the future what to do and what not to do.

The self-esteem movement would not benefit the student later in their life. If a student is used to being noticed for everything they did in their young adult life, that student will then be let down when put in an adult environment and go right back to having low self-esteem. In the adult world, such as college or a career, the professor or employer isn't going to praise the student for doing every single task he or she completes. The self-esteem movement ruins the chance for the student to become self-sufficient and becoming confident in their own work. Making and realizing one's own mistakes is key to making progress in life; the self-esteem movement takes this ability to progress away from the student.

When the student eventually starts a career in his or her life, he or she is going to want the employer not to make a fuss over a little mistake. Having been used to the self-esteem movement while growing up in school the student, now adult, will be okay with doing a task given with minimal effort and still expect the employer to tell them that they did a good job. Unfortunately, the adult is going to have a hard time keeping a job throughout his or her life unless they forget about how things were in school and start to look at the big picture. An employer is not going to praise the adult for doing a little task correctly or even doing exponentially better on a task than his or her coworkers. The self-esteem movement is setting up children in school to fail later on in life.

In the sum of it all, students in school should learn to praise themselves and be confident in their own selves and their own work and not require praise from an administrator. The self-esteem movement in no way benefits students for their future lives in the adult environments they will soon need to face. In college, the first job

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I do agree that student should up bring their self esteem

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Your article is informational

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Thanks

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