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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Road Walker who wrote (269672)	1/22/2006 8:22:19 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1573950

Basically, there are people who think that there are other things that are more important than our democracy whereas the rest of us feel there is nothing more important than our democracy. From my limited experience (the young people that work for me) there seems to be a political impotence, a feeling that they have no control and their voice means nothing... they say "well they will do whatever they want to do anyway" (whoever "they" is). This defeatism in young people is foreign to me; a significant disappointment. Even outside politics they don't seem prepared for leadership. Being young is supposed to be about ideals and energy. These days being young ain't what it used to be. I have now been to four different schools in the Seattle area and it ain't pretty. Most of the good students have been 'cherry picked' and sent to private schools. Even good public suburban schools are snubbed and suburban kids sent to private schools. My friend in the OC sends his kids to a private school even though Laguna Niguel has some of the best public schools in CA. Some teachers who have been around for 20 years said it the big move private in Seattle started about 15 years ago. Interestingly enough, these teachers followed the better students and now teach at a private school. This trend means the weaker students in the public schools have fewer kids who can model positive behavior for them. Can the overall society benefit from this separation of young people? I don't think so. Add to that, kids are coming down with more and more adult diseases because of their poor lifestyles and that only makes things worse. Its no wonder that SAT scores are down from 20 years ago. The weaker kids are allowed to wallow in a mess rather than be pulled up by the stronger kids. And don't forget that academically the boys have fallen behind the girls with less boys going to college. The combination of all these things may explain why there are less strong kids to take a stand. And if they can't do it in college, they won't do it as a 20 something. The best person to ask is Z.........he's lived this whole process. ted