The message our children need to hear but almost never do

We have allowed our school system to be overrun with an intent to find and weed out losers, instead of a system designed to lift up every student and help each one find the strength to win. Remember drivers’ ed, when your teacher told you to keep your eyes on the road and not the ditch, because you will go where your vision is focused. We need to stop focusing on failure. We need to stop devoting mental energy on the fear of the “wrong moves” and focus on the right ones.

Most importantly, we need to work for and demand a world fit for humans. No, I don’t want a fuzzy world with no sharp edges in which no hard things ever happen. That’s not real. But we should demand a world in which young men and women don’t feel that failing a test or losing a sporting event is the figurative End of Their Life, and we should continue to demand a world in which men and women don’t feel they are in danger of being shot down because someone thought they made one wrong move.

We don’t need to demand a world that is all fluffy bunnies and rainbows, but it doesn’t seem too much to demand a world that doesn’t just grind up our children.


Hello babies. Welcome to Earth. It’s hot in the summer and cold in the winter. It’s round and wet and crowded. On the outside, babies, you’ve got a hundred years here. There’s only one rule that I know of, babies- God damn it, you’ve got to be kind.
— Kurt Vonnegut
 
fuckability score?


wow dude I hope you don't hold all females to a fuckability score.


that could put your evil pervy fucking ass in prison


You see females have a worth beyond weither you can get your penis inside them



they are human beings with many gifts to offer the world.


Oh hell your a sociopath and they cant learn about human worth.



they are just too fucking broken to be able to see humans as anything but something else on the earth to use an discard



I almost feel sorry for your evil fucking pervy ass.


almost
 
When it comes to high school students, not so much the littles kids, the fact of the matter though is that one mistake in school, like failing a class, can sometimes really hurt your chances to get the future that you are wanting after high school, especially when choosing where you want to go to college, and losing a game or games in whatever sport you are playing can hurt your chances of getting an athletic scholarship if that's also something you are actively working for, but it's how you react after the loss or the failure that is the most telling ting. My opinion on failure is that you need to have failure in order to understand what success means and feels like. If you see failure as a way to learn from the mistakes that you made so that you won't fail again the next time then I think kids of all ages would be more mentally tough. Saying that it's ok to fail and letting them move on to something else is not the best thing to do in my opinion especially if you don't encourage or influence that person to work harder after that failure so that it doesn't happen again and again. The thing that makes this difficult is when you have parents or teachers or coaches that do not use failure as a way to build character and help them get better at whatever it is that they failed at. So yes if you focus on failure and you give up on the person and the person gives up on themselves then that's bad and that needs to be addressed, but I absolutely do not believe that the message to kids is to give up after a failure or to ignore the reasons for the failure. Failing a test or losing a game is NOT the end of life and kids should not feel that way obviously, but the kids should feel a sense of determination after that failure and they should want to kick that failures butt the next time around, and I just dont think enough kids are being taught that.
 
the economic world the republican party has created for this country has ruined the futures of many an American child,



they have left us with such Huge disparity in income that moving up is only for a few now.


How can you vote for that again
 
evince said:
the economic world the republican party has created for this country has ruined the futures of many an American child,



they have left us with such Huge disparity in income that moving up is only for a few now.


How can you vote for that again
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I'm in my first year of college right now and so I havent been out of high school that long and I can tell you that from my experience national politics had very little bearing on my choices and actions, and i'm sure it was like that for most of the other people in my school. The most stressful things for us was not what was happening in Washington DC but what was happening inbetween classes, at football games, at dances, at friend's houses, and things like that. There is no wage disparity for kids in school, maybe for our parents, but day in and day out it's a different focus and a different world for those four years of high school. Even right now in college for me the stress level plummeted after I graduated high school and i'm not even talking about the academic stuff but just more of the social stuff. For high school students and for college students being able to weather a future storm doesnt come from a political party or politicians but instead it comes from your friends, your parents, your teachers, your coaches and people like that. If a high school senior never experiences failure or is protected from it then they are going to crumble one day in college when they do fail at something, but if they are raised to view failure as a learning opportunity so that you can be better then they will have a much better chance at turning negatives around in the future.
 
you are not everyone.


you are just one person.

this is not about just you an your rural town.



this is a political site


I am talking politics



he republican party destroyed the ability for people to move up
 
evince said:
you are not everyone.


you are just one person.

this is not about just you an your rural town.



this is a political site


I am talking politics



he republican party destroyed the ability for people to move up
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I thought we were talking about kids overcoming failure? I was just giving personal examples.
 
on what basis of proof

are you suggesting people of color are all dupes and don't know how to vote in their own best interests?
 
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