# Warning over narcissistic pupils
**URL:** https://forums.speedlife.net/t/warning-over-narcissistic-pupils/202231
**Category:** PittSpeed Off Topic
**Created:** [March 16, 2009, 4:32am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/warning-over-narcissistic-pupils/202231 "2009-03-16T04:32:31Z")
**Posts on this page:** 12
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### Author:  [@whitey](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/whitey)
#### Post date: [March 16, 2009, 4:32am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/warning-over-narcissistic-pupils/202231/1 "2009-03-16T04:32:31Z")
> **[BBC NEWS | UK | Education | Warning over narcissistic pupils](http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/education/7943906.stm)**
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> An expert warns the expectation placed on teachers and parents to boost pupils' self-esteem is breeding narcissistic children.
> The growing expectation placed on schools and parents to boost pupils’ self-esteem is breeding a generation of narcissists, an expert has warned.
> Dr Carol Craig said children were being over-praised and were developing an “all about me” mentality.
> She said teachers increasingly faced complaints from parents if their child failed a spelling test or did not get a good part in the school pantomime.
> Schools needed to reclaim their role as educators, not psychologists, she said.
> Dr Craig, who is chief executive of the centre for confidence and well-being in Scotland, was speaking at the Association of School and College Leaders conference in Birmingham.
> Negative characteristic
> She told head teachers the self-esteem agenda, imported from the United States, was a “a big fashionable idea” that had gone too far.
> She said an obsession with boosting children’s self-esteem was encouraging a narcissistic generation who focussed on themselves and felt “entitled”.
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> They (schools) are not surrogate psychologists or mental health professionals
> Dr Carol Craig
> “Narcissists make terrible relationship partners, parents and employees. It’s not a positive characteristic. We are in danger of encouraging this,” she said.
> "And we are kidding ourselves if we think that we aren’t going to undermine learning if we restrict criticism.
> "Parents no longer want to hear if their children have done anything wrong. This is the downside of the self-esteem agenda.
> “I’m not saying it’s of no value… but you get unintentional consequences.”
> Parental responsibility
> Since 2007, there has been a statutory responsibility on schools in England to improve pupils’ well-being and primary and secondary schools are increasingly teaching social and emotional skills.
> Indeed it is possible that Ofsted inspectors will soon appraise schools’ performance in this area; and well-being could be one of the measures used in the school report card system that the government wants to introduce.
> But Dr Craig told head teachers that this was not the role of schools.
> “Schools have to hold out that they are educational establishments,” she said.
> “They are not surrogate psychologists or mental health professionals.”
> Learning about feelings from a professional in a classroom did not send out a positive message, she added.
> And she warned there was a danger the more schools taught emotional well-being, the less parents would take responsibility.
> “We run the risk of undermining the family as the principal agent of sociability,” she said.
Anyone else in a hiring position seem this kind of behavior? The sense of entitlement on kids age 18-23 is amazing.
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### Author:  [@BlkP42E](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/BlkP42E)
#### Post date: [March 16, 2009, 5:30am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/warning-over-narcissistic-pupils/202231/2 "2009-03-16T05:30:06Z")
i see it… kids are cocky douchebags now a days.
the world sucks anymore.
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### Author:  [@Sight\_N\_Sound](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Sight_N_Sound)
#### Post date: [March 16, 2009, 5:36am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/warning-over-narcissistic-pupils/202231/3 "2009-03-16T05:36:44Z")
> [@My 9 Second Formula Build \*DIAF 56k](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/my-9-second-formula-build-diaf-56k/39825/50):
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> i see it… kids are cocky douchebags now a days.
>
> the world sucks anymore.
DS? :dunno:
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### Author:  [@BlkP42E](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/BlkP42E)
#### Post date: [March 16, 2009, 5:41am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/warning-over-narcissistic-pupils/202231/4 "2009-03-16T05:41:31Z")
?
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### Author:  [@Zack01GC](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Zack01GC)
#### Post date: [March 16, 2009, 5:53am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/warning-over-narcissistic-pupils/202231/5 "2009-03-16T05:53:03Z")
> [@My 9 Second Formula Build \*DIAF 56k](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/my-9-second-formula-build-diaf-56k/39825/48):
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> The sense of entitlement on kids age 18-23 is amazing.
> [@My 9 Second Formula Build \*DIAF 56k](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/my-9-second-formula-build-diaf-56k/39825/50):
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> i see it… kids are cocky douchebags now a days.
It’s really disgusting being IN that age range, and noticing this.
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### Author:  [@S10Blazed\_Si](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/S10Blazed_Si)
#### Post date: [March 16, 2009, 6:05am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/warning-over-narcissistic-pupils/202231/6 "2009-03-16T06:05:08Z")
Whats the news here? I’ve noticed cocky, self-entitled people of all ages, races, and backgrounds since 1981.
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### Author:  [@Darkstar](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Darkstar)
#### Post date: [March 16, 2009, 7:43am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/warning-over-narcissistic-pupils/202231/7 "2009-03-16T07:43:28Z")
> [@WTR: garage](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/wtr-garage/39854/4):
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> DS? :dunno:
I only have this attitude because of the 14" cock swinging between my legs.
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### Author:  [@Sight\_N\_Sound](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Sight_N_Sound)
#### Post date: [March 16, 2009, 7:52am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/warning-over-narcissistic-pupils/202231/8 "2009-03-16T07:52:29Z")
> [@New guy](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/new-guy/39628/44):
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> I only have this attitude because of the 14mm cock swinging between my legs.
Fixed
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### Author:  [@Darkstar](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Darkstar)
#### Post date: [March 16, 2009, 8:07am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/warning-over-narcissistic-pupils/202231/9 "2009-03-16T08:07:03Z")
> [@Looking for some opinions on wheels for the T/A \*pics\*](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/looking-for-some-opinions-on-wheels-for-the-t-a-pics/39855/10):
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> Fixed
only if you’re talking diameter after bathing in ice water for an hour.
Or upon seeing sexywhitechick in the nude.
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### Author:  [@steelcitysix](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/steelcitysix)
#### Post date: [March 16, 2009, 8:42am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/warning-over-narcissistic-pupils/202231/10 "2009-03-16T08:42:18Z")
> [@New guy](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/new-guy/39628/44):
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> I only have this attitude because of the 14" cock swinging between my legs.
Is that what happened to the eye?
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### Author:  [@Sight\_N\_Sound](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Sight_N_Sound)
#### Post date: [March 16, 2009, 10:17am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/warning-over-narcissistic-pupils/202231/11 "2009-03-16T10:17:21Z")
Or the 14" cock was the tranny lining up behind him.
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### Author:  [@Darkstar](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Darkstar)
#### Post date: [March 17, 2009, 7:44am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/warning-over-narcissistic-pupils/202231/12 "2009-03-17T07:44:59Z")
> [@Probably the worst Mustang EVER!!!1111](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/probably-the-worst-mustang-ever-1111/39857/3):
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> Or the 14" cock was the tranny lining up behind him.
i only fuck around with post op tranny’s thank you very much.