What's the matter with adults today
Save the children, smack the adults
The above link is an example of the sickness that inflicts adults today. It is a testament to their willingness to take the smallest actions and have them dealt with by official entities. Consider the whole Katie Couric "teens and sex" report. Teens have been having sex - forever. If they are more perverted it's because society is as well. They advance with the rest of us. Society still gets up in arms about things that have been happening for decades. I remember a big story about them catching a kid getting beat down on a bus on film they treated it like a horrible incident. I've seen more cats get their ass whipped on busses than a little bit and all of them were much worse than that. Adults had better start acting more realistic if they hope to tackle these problems with any effectivness.
Bonus Bitch:
Adults should no longer be allowed to say: "I don't know what's wrong with these kids today. When we came up we were taught to respect things." You don't lose children, you leave them. Children are a responsibility and they only learn what we teach them. This country is eating it's young. The worst part is I work with youth and the program I work with and many others like it are numbers driven so they really don't focus on the quality of assistance they give. Then as few of these programs as they are most are underfunded and aren't supported well. In the meantime I watch all this community development and money go to all of these other things which will never last because we aren't teaching the people who should grow up to take them over. We borrow the world from our children. They will have to deal with all the mistakes we leave behind. Are we even preparing them? I think about the books they used to make people read in school and I have read maybe 2 of them (in school). I've read more classic literature on my own than I was required to from pre-k through high school. Alot of people may say that it's up to those individuals to do it on their own - in a world where certain groups of youth who would gladly delve into art and literature never get exposed to it. Thus they never know there is something they need to go explore. On a basic level...I'm required to give these assesments and, I shit you not, more drop outs (people who lost interest in school) score on a 12th grade level in reading and math than those who have diplomas. I learned one thing that I encountered on the S.A.T. within two years of actually taking them. This subject was not even supposed to be in the curriculum but my english teacher gave it to us because she knew we would have it. People say you have to do it yourself and provide for you and yours but, what good is it to give my children everything when 89% of their peers won't have and will be willing to hurt them to take it from them. If we can't look out for more people we create a "welcome to the jungle" atmosphere. In such a place the "haves" become targets.
The above link is an example of the sickness that inflicts adults today. It is a testament to their willingness to take the smallest actions and have them dealt with by official entities. Consider the whole Katie Couric "teens and sex" report. Teens have been having sex - forever. If they are more perverted it's because society is as well. They advance with the rest of us. Society still gets up in arms about things that have been happening for decades. I remember a big story about them catching a kid getting beat down on a bus on film they treated it like a horrible incident. I've seen more cats get their ass whipped on busses than a little bit and all of them were much worse than that. Adults had better start acting more realistic if they hope to tackle these problems with any effectivness.
Bonus Bitch:
Adults should no longer be allowed to say: "I don't know what's wrong with these kids today. When we came up we were taught to respect things." You don't lose children, you leave them. Children are a responsibility and they only learn what we teach them. This country is eating it's young. The worst part is I work with youth and the program I work with and many others like it are numbers driven so they really don't focus on the quality of assistance they give. Then as few of these programs as they are most are underfunded and aren't supported well. In the meantime I watch all this community development and money go to all of these other things which will never last because we aren't teaching the people who should grow up to take them over. We borrow the world from our children. They will have to deal with all the mistakes we leave behind. Are we even preparing them? I think about the books they used to make people read in school and I have read maybe 2 of them (in school). I've read more classic literature on my own than I was required to from pre-k through high school. Alot of people may say that it's up to those individuals to do it on their own - in a world where certain groups of youth who would gladly delve into art and literature never get exposed to it. Thus they never know there is something they need to go explore. On a basic level...I'm required to give these assesments and, I shit you not, more drop outs (people who lost interest in school) score on a 12th grade level in reading and math than those who have diplomas. I learned one thing that I encountered on the S.A.T. within two years of actually taking them. This subject was not even supposed to be in the curriculum but my english teacher gave it to us because she knew we would have it. People say you have to do it yourself and provide for you and yours but, what good is it to give my children everything when 89% of their peers won't have and will be willing to hurt them to take it from them. If we can't look out for more people we create a "welcome to the jungle" atmosphere. In such a place the "haves" become targets.
posted by Amadeo at 3:11 PM
2 Comments:
I have many Mexican students in my classroom, and they often struggle because their home culture is much different from the school culture (Caucasian). Many can't communicate with their families because they use ASL (American Sign Language) and English at school but their parents use Spanish which causes students to feel even more confused because we don't have the resources to teach Spanish at the deaf school. I wish I could learn enough Spanish so I could teach it, but I grew up Caucasian and need to learn about different Hispanic cultures as well (Mexican and New Mexican Hispanic are different) in order to really help the students. The school has a Hispanic club which helps them learn more about their identities as Deaf and as Hispanic, which helps, but that doesn't help them deal with their anger that they can't communicate at home. :-(
Do you feel if schools had "clubs" for students after school to do different activities within the community, that would help improve the youth for the future?
I hope one day I can teach in NYC - there's a public school that uses ASL and English - and be involved with after school programs (now I'm a sponsor for the American Indian Club at my school) that can help kids do more things outside of school instead of going home or getting into trouble.
They just need to do all the things they have cut over last two or so decades and not be scared to incorporate new things. It's a new day they must realize this.
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