Ahh, the "Snowflake Generation"! The precious little darlings have been brought up to think that regardless of how stupid or wrong they are, their mistakes must NEVER be mentioned, and they are always entitled to a Gold Star every day....because this place is toxic with posters being called out and shamed by people like Claude and Z too regularly.
Teacher - "So you're not even going to try the "...dog ate my homework..." excuse?
You're just telling me straight-up that you couldn't be bothered doing it?
Well, ... nevermind, here's your Gold Star.
And today we're also handing out these magical rainbows and unicorns to everyone!"
Fact is, here in Oz at least, the FSAE-A "reward system" is 100% in the above direction. It does not matter, in any way, how utterly incompetent a Team's effort is, they will still receive some sort of trophy or award.
The clear message being given by the SAE-A is:
1. No need to work hard.
2. No need to learn anything.
3. No need to do any sort of "homework", such as reading stuff on Forums, let alone contributing to the discussions.
Instead of the above, oh-so old-fashioned approach, the Teams are encouraged to:
1. Make whatever "choices" they wish, with these choices requiring no supporting "Reasoning" whatsoever, because they can NEVER BE DESCRIBED AS WRONG.
2. Spend the whole year doing cool stuff, like playing with expensive toys and burning through as much tax-payers' money as is humanly possible.
3. And if any student ever feels the least bit "anxious", perhaps because they did something really stupid and this was subsequently pointed out to them, then they should blame the old people who did the pointing out. And perhaps start a global movement to have ALL the older generations hung, drawn, and quartered. (Yey! A bigger slice of cake for the Snowflakes.)
~o0o~
Of course, the above sorry state of affairs is only possible because of, and is thus the end result of, the many small successes of previous generations, going back many hundreds of years.
That is, the successes of people who were living in very hard times, and would feel extreme pain whenever they got anything the least bit wrong. How they must have loved having only a few harsh words thrown in their direction when they got things wrong, rather than the prospects of starvation or death.
Anyway, cycles being cycles, the current generation of Snowflakes will do their bit in returning society to that earlier state. It will take another few hundred years (~300 years +/-200, by my reckoning), but is as inevitable as night following day.
Meanwhile, enjoy your rainbows and unicorns!
Z