Leaving Cert grades up average 7.5% this year

True ...but that wouldn't fly nowadays

Can you imagine the whinging, complaining and gnashing of teeth from the mammys and daddy's and the mental stress on the students and the even greater cries of LC not even relevant etc etc if they actually had to apply themselves to get average grades...

Much better to give most participants rubber medals and tell them all they are great altogether....less resistance....a sizeable proportion of people don't want things to be difficult...they don't subscribe to worthwhile things requiring any great effort, they want things and they want it now and they get upset if it doesn't work out that way and blame anyone or anything before taking a look at themselves if they don't get it.....

I want it, I want it now, it should be easy and require almost no input from me and if I don't get it then that must be everyone else's fault in some way....

It's ironic they often look up to successful people but it never occurs to them that the majority of those people sacrificed and worked hard to get where they are...they want the glory without what it requires ...its instant gratification is what's required...and the system/politicians flunkies of all sorts are reactive by nature and tend to give in to a degree to those that whip up the most noise....media is happy to fill the airwaves with a percentage of horseshit too

The process of realising you are mostly responsible for yourself happens later and later now in life....there are more infantilised man and women children wandering around now than there ever were.