I can't wait till my kid gets into school. I'm gonna be all over the teachers and schoolboard. I'll stand up in a room and in my Loud and Proud manner proclaim,
"The more you try to make our kids into pussies, the worse they are going to do in school and life. Maybe in your world everyone is a winner, but when they get in to the job market of the real world there are 2 types of people. Winners and loosers. The school system is churning out loosers faster than parents can make them.
If my kid makes a failing grade, everyone in the class should know. There should be a big f'ing red F on her paper to remind her that she failed and she needs to try harder next time. Not be told, oh, you tried your best. It's ok, everyone still loves you. blah blah blah."
You do know that some day, not to distant from today, we won't be allowed to use black ink because it is offensive to some African-American (who has never been to Africa, whole different tangent here).
They need to figure out the reason that a lot of Asian countries schools are kicking are asses is because they run their schools the way we did just 20 years ago. You get out of line, you get paddled. You fail, you get mocked and ridiculed. You have to have motivation to become better at something, and realistically, negative motivation is better than positive.