Have not visited this thread for a week. My answer is late but I still thought I wanted to add to the mix.
The school is a family. When a family is having a problem the family needs to fix it. Crisis brings out the best in people and if that student is absent then what signal does it give to the rest of the family.
Our society is learning that me is more important than us. It is learning to hide from the truth because it is easier. It is learning that risk is avoidable and we might as well let others suffer as long as it is not us.
Now for the soapbox, I moved out of the city in 1982 to get my kids out of the Littleton school system. I graduated from Littleton and knew how arrogant and self indulgent the kids and parents there are. They drive Porsche, BMW and attend the right schools. Not a bad thing but it has created a system of hierarchy in the schools that pushes the underachievers or average to the side and makes them a sideshow attraction in the eyes of the elite and self important students. We as parents and members of society have created this system in order to warehouse our children. Give them to the teachers and let them raise them. OK with us as long as we don't miss our work, golf, meetings, clubs, and our self important ways.
Then we let our children tell us when they are going to school, how and what they need and we let them learn to control us with us letting them do it. We have become a society led by the unraised and emotionally unprepared.
Not in my house. I am the father. Not the best friend. The mother is the mother and the emotional rudder. The children are the children and come to the parents for advise, love, money, help and the courage.
TELL THE SON OR DAUGHTER TO GO TO SCHOOL BECAUSE THEIR FAMILY THERE NEEDS THEM. TELL THEM IF THEY ARE SCARED TO GO INTO THEIR HEART AND ASK GOD FOR STRENGTH AND GUIDANCE. TELL THEM TO WALK WITH FAITH AND COURAGE BECAUSE THEY ARE THE TOTAL SUM OF HUMANITIES EXISTENCE TO THIS DATE AND REPRESENT THE BEST IN MANKIND. TELL THEM YOU LOVE THEM AND WILL WALK SIDE BY SIDE WITH THEM IF THEY WANT YOU TO. SHOW THEM YOU HAVE STRENGTH AND FAITH IN GOD AND THE HUMAN CONDITION.
TELL THEM FEAR IS THE ENEMY!!!!
YEA. THO I WALK THROUGH THE VALLEY OF DEATH, I SHALL FEAR NO EVIL!!!
TELL THEM YOU LOVE THEM.
enough.
Bill on the Hill
side information: I am a student of eastern philosophy, Buddhism, Hindu, Hare Krishna and others. Faith is not in vain and the choice of religion is not important. As long as the choice in not in self. The self important "I" will trap us yet if we do not learn. |
