I am currently teaching the Wedding Cake module of my school's curriculum. I've spent the past 3 weeks showing them (and them reproducing my demos) various techniques that would qualify as approved techniques for the practical. They are to sketch a wedding cake and reproduce it. I seem to get a lot of resistence from the students when I give them advice using my past experiences. When giving Gen Yers creative license they get very offended (hurt?) if I don't appreciate their vision and are even surprised when their grade doesn't represent what they feel they deserve. I have even given them the same rubric I use and they grade themselves before I do, oftentimes they point out their own mistakes, and they still don't understand that I'm grading subjectively. I am clearly frustrated by all of this. You can't teach someone who doesn't feel they need to improve even though they enrolled themselves in culinary school.