One school district in Florida is eliminating the opportunity for students to get a "zero" as a grade; now, the proposal is that the lowest possible score a student can get is a 50. That's right, a student can turn in a BLANK sheet of...Continue

More evidence of the Wussification of America: one high school is canceling it's solo Honors Awards Night because it might upset students who worked hard to get the grades...but didn't make the cut. Are we really creating a future...Continue

The Bert Show’s talked about the Wussification of America a lot – from teachers not being allowed to use red ink and teams not keeping score so no one feels bad to Charlie Brown being deemed as bullying – is America getting overly...Continue

A Bert Show listener Patricia is doing something to totally ruin her son's math education! Since he has anxiety about math class, she's decided to take over doing his math homework for him. Nothing could ever go wrong with that plan,...Continue

The Bert Show's talked about the Wussification of America a lot - from teachers not being allowed to use red ink and teams not keeping score so no one feels bad - is America getting overly PC? Up on the wussification chopping block now...Continue

Bert's struggling with something: his two kids, aged four and ten, but they're both pretty much never out of sight of an adult. He's wondering if it's time for his kids - especially the ten year old, Hayden, to start doing things by...Continue

Another example of the wussification of America: Bert thinks some fathers are getting too soft ... and one member of The Bert Show cast has the perfect example. Sadly...that wasn't the worst example of the wussification of...Continue

Are men taking the 'lazy' approach when it comes to dating? STOP THE DATING WUSSIFICATION! And the full blame can't lie totally on them - women (granted, not all) are making it too easy for men these days when it comes to courting. The...Continue

This article, written by Northland College Principal, John Tapene, is like the perfect anti-wussification of America anthem: "Someday is now and that somebody is you!" Tapene wrote a piece that appeared in a newspaper, and offered the...Continue

The Wussification of America. The Bert Show has covered this topic in depth - from teachers not being allowed to correct papers in red ink to team listings no longer being posted for fear of hurting the feelings of those who didn't make...Continue

If your kid was incessantly picked on for one thing that was easily fixable, would you do fix it? Dr. Sanjay Gupta interviewed one family who did just that: their child was being picked on for her ears, so they contacted a foundation and...Continue

Bert thinks that we (aka society) is contributing to the wussification of kids, and now he's got one piece of evidence to prove his point: this kid was benched for scoring too many touchdowns during a game, and was hit with the "Madre Hill...Continue