Some Rather Random Rambling

Sometimes I wonder what is wrong with our youth. Why are we all so seemingly lazy? The work we’re asked to do for school is not only necessary for our own educational good, but in all reality not so very difficult! So why are there problems with slackers and idiots? Are not the taxpayers paying for our education, supplies and teachers? Are not our troops out fighting for our rights as Americans to learn? And even those cunning few of ours get bad grades for one simplistic reason or another. Why would we keep a system that is not working for most students? But even the most challenged student can learn from any system if they truly desire it. So what’s the problem? Is it the youth or the educational system? Well maybe a bit of each. I think our adolescents should apply themselves more. We want a better, stronger nation equipped with more mindful and genius adults. Kids need to know their history. They need to know how to read, spell, and anything else. Too many kids feel ashamed when they need a bit of extra help in school, all they need is a little help, but they’re placed in things like special ed, and made fun of by their schoolmates. Schools have become destructive to the attendees. They learn that at school you’re bullied, or even the coolest of the participants find themselves to be constant victims of scorn when they wear clothes that aren’t quite in, or say things that aren’t quite right. What can the schools do about that? That’s not their fault that the children are sarcastically hurtful… right? No. but who CAN be held responsible? Our society has become less and less nurturing. Instead of explaining to a young person one thing or another without shock or dismay, we instead express an appalling amount of scorn for their stupidity in not having known such things before. And thus we imbue in each young individual a reluctance to ask, for fear they might appear dumb. But not knowing something, even something typically commonly known, does not make someone stupid, and we as humans need to realize that for everything we know by heart now we once had to learn from someone else. Isn’t that something? Every single little thing you know once had to be explained to you at one point. So it doesn’t matter who doesn’t know the score of the Sunday football game, or who forgot the name of a particularly well known band. It doesn’t matter who knows the biggest name brands in clothes, or who memorized the names of every Lamborghini ever created. Someday none of this will matter. The lyrics to that totally hit Black Eyed Peas song isn’t going to help you when you need to get a job at NASA. In fact it might even make you seem, ironically, stupid. Every teen in America is wrapped up in the entertainment world. We are more interested in the newest biggest musical artist, actor, or general entertainment performer than we are in learning of our forefathers. Those great men and women who fought for our country, freed the slaves, made women equals to men and more. What?! How can that be? We’re more interested in some gaudy attention starved, greedy, money crazed individual than one that literally died for us, died for our country? Wow. That’s bad. No wonder we’re all coming out greedy liars. We’re learning that greedy liars prosper; and they do. That’s not to say that I think every entertainer is an idiot, but taking a glance at the general bunch of them they appear no deeper than an everyday puddle. We’re missing out all the scientist kids. The teachers, the rocket scientists, brain surgeons. We need kids who want to succeed in a good way, and these days we’re missing out on them a lot. All of these kids have potential, they’re smart, and they could succeed in big ways, except for the fact that they idolize totally immoral and unethical people. What if it was a popular trend to be a fan of useful jobs? That would be something! Can you imagine the sort of nation we could build on children uncorrupted by Lady Gaga? Children who grew up in a nurturing environment without the sarcastic scorn every time they didn’t know something? I don’t think it would be a good idea to have entirely sheltered people, because this would only leave us vulnerable to shock and breakdowns further down the road, but I do think that if we were MORE sheltered, less vulgar, and more overall freethinking, perceptive and intelligent, we would be an unstoppable force of brilliant youth.