Have we turned our children into ‘snowflakes’?

A NEWLY qualified teacher has complained about hard work and long hours (Mail) and quit his job. There, there, darling, don’t bother to get a job — the state will give you lots of social security money. In 42 years in work, I took sick leave of one full day and two halfdays, even discharging myself from hospital to meet a deadline. It’s time we started teaching youngsters to take responsibility for their lives and jobs. CHRIS HUMPHREYS, Bristol.

AS A member of the so-called snowflake generation, I have to speak up in our defence. We are accused of not being able to stand on our own two feet and of avoiding hard work, but is this not a product of our upbringing? Our parents, grandparents and teachers are responsible for mollycoddling us. So, is it any wonder we struggle to cope in the harsh reality of a nineto-five job? CLARE HARRIS, Bromley, Kent.

HOW anything will be achieved by the snowflake generation is beyond my comprehension. For years, I held a managerial position and daily had to rearrange rotas because one person or another ‘wasn’t feeling quite themselves’. What the country needs is people with the will to do their best, whatever the circumstances. Name supplied, Hove. E. Sussex.

I CAN’T believe Cambridge crybabies took offence at a professor advising them to stop drinking and start studying (Mail). At my first university lecture in the Eighties, the head of computer science told us: ‘Next year, the person on your left won’t be here. And the year after, the person on your right will be gone.’ Just 24 of the intake of 52 went on to graduate. PETER SMART, Nottingham.