This should be posted in every school in the Country! Especially Austin (Rule: public schools, living)

[RandyAH]

Rule 1 Life is not fair - get used to it!

Rule 2 : The world doesn't care about your self-esteem. The world will expect you to accomplish something BEFORE you feel good about yourself.

Rule 3 : You will NOT make $60,000 a year right out of high school. You won't be a vice-president with a car phone until you earn both.

Rule 4 : If you think your teacher is tough, wait till you get a boss !

Rule 5 Flipping burgers is not beneath your dignity. Your Grandparents had a different word for burger flipping: they called it opportunity.

Rule 6 : If you mess up, it's not your parents' fault , so don't whine about your mistakes, learn from them.

Rule 7 : Before you were born, your parents weren't as boring as they are now. They got that way from paying your bills, cleaning your clothes and listening to you talk about how cool you thought you were. So before you save the rain forest from the parasites of your parent's generation, try delousing the closet in your own room.

Rule 8 : Your school may have done away with winners and losers, but life NOT. In some schools, they have abolished failing grades and they'll give you as MANY TIMES as you want to get the right answer. This doesn't bear the slightest resemblance to ANYTHING in real life.

Rule 9 : Life is not divided into semesters. You don't get summers off and very few employers are interested in helping you FIND YOURSELF. Do that on your own time.

Rule 10 : Television is NOT real life. In real life people actually have to leave the coffee shop and go to jobs.

Rule 11 : Be nice to nerds. Chances are you'll end up working for one.


Rule 12: Smoking does not make you look cool. It makes you look moronic. Next time you're out cruising, watch an 11-year-old with a butt in his mouth. That's what you look like to anyone over 20. Ditto for "expressing yourself' with purple hair and/or pierced body parts.

Rule 13: You are not immortal. (See Rule No. 12.) If you are under the impression that living fast, dying young and leaving a beautiful corpse is romantic, you obviously haven't seen one of your peers at room temperature lately.

Rule 14:Enjoy this while you can. Sure parents are a pain, school's a bother, and life is depressing. But someday you'll realize how wonderful it was to be a kid. Maybe you should start now. You're welcome.

[jobert]

Just because you attach "especially Austin" to the end of your post, doesn't mean this is appropriate for the Austin forum.
This is basically "forwarded chain-mail spam" that most of have already received that you posted on the Austin forum for some reason. If I may make a suggestion, please post this on the existing thread about Pearce - as that is what you are alluding to, I'm sure.

[love roses]

I have to agree. There are lots of kids in all schools who have that attitude. Not all, but a lot, even if a spam email points it out.

[mark311]

Originally Posted by RandyAH

You will NOT make $60,000 a year right out of high school. You won't be a vice-president with a car phone until you earn both.

I would be pretty upset if I was a vice-president with a car phone. This list must be from 1991. Maybe I could get by with a car phone AND a pager.

[joejitsu]

This could apply to kids anywhere. I blame the media. Also when I was a kid I used to have to recite the pledge of allegiance. They need to bring that back.

[LindaGrace]

And you know what? Kids don't do this to themselves. Their parents let them get away with not helping around the house, doing chores, etc. Kids aren't born with a sense of entitlement. They are raised with a sense of entitlement.

[doctorjef]

What LindaGrace said. And moralising in the tone of the OP's list isn't going to help. When did wagging your finger at a teenager and stamping your little foot accomplish anything?

[Jennibc]

Originally Posted by LindaGrace

And you know what? Kids don't do this to themselves. Their parents let them get away with not helping around the house, doing chores, etc. Kids aren't born with a sense of entitlement. They are raised with a sense of entitlement.

Actually, kids ARE born with a sense of entitlement and the problem is parents that don't disabuse them of that notion, parents that act more like cool friends than parents. Parents need to set limits. But this really applies to a shift in national cultural norms, it has nothing to do with Austin.

[austinite45]

Originally Posted by RandyAH

Rule 1 Life is not fair - get used to it!

Rule 2 : The world doesn't care about your self-esteem. The world will expect you to accomplish something BEFORE you feel good about yourself.

Rule 3 : You will NOT make $60,000 a year right out of high school. You won't be a vice-president with a car phone until you earn both.

Rule 4 : If you think your teacher is tough, wait till you get a boss !

Rule 5 Flipping burgers is not beneath your dignity. Your Grandparents had a different word for burger flipping: they called it opportunity.

Rule 6 : If you mess up, it's not your parents' fault , so don't whine about your mistakes, learn from them.

Rule 7 : Before you were born, your parents weren't as boring as they are now. They got that way from paying your bills, cleaning your clothes and listening to you talk about how cool you thought you were. So before you save the rain forest from the parasites of your parent's generation, try delousing the closet in your own room.

Rule 8 : Your school may have done away with winners and losers, but life NOT. In some schools, they have abolished failing grades and they'll give you as MANY TIMES as you want to get the right answer. This doesn't bear the slightest resemblance to ANYTHING in real life.

Rule 9 : Life is not divided into semesters. You don't get summers off and very few employers are interested in helping you FIND YOURSELF. Do that on your own time.

Rule 10 : Television is NOT real life. In real life people actually have to leave the coffee shop and go to jobs.

Rule 11 : Be nice to nerds. Chances are you'll end up working for one.


Rule 12: Smoking does not make you look cool. It makes you look moronic. Next time you're out cruising, watch an 11-year-old with a butt in his mouth. That's what you look like to anyone over 20. Ditto for "expressing yourself' with purple hair and/or pierced body parts.

Rule 13: You are not immortal. (See Rule No. 12.) If you are under the impression that living fast, dying young and leaving a beautiful corpse is romantic, you obviously haven't seen one of your peers at room temperature lately.

Rule 14:Enjoy this while you can. Sure parents are a pain, school's a bother, and life is depressing. But someday you'll realize how wonderful it was to be a kid. Maybe you should start now. You're welcome.

I reject Rule 6.

The Rules are more appropriate for parents (especially those 16-17 year old mothers and fathers!) than for kids in my opinion.

You probably haven't heard about this but internationally, America is often called a nation of spoiled kids!

[theloneranger]

Originally Posted by joejitsu

This could apply to kids anywhere. I blame the media. Also when I was a kid I used to have to recite the pledge of allegiance. They need to bring that back.

As far as I know, it's a state law that you must recite the Pledge of Allegiance, Pledge to the Texas Flag, and have a moment of silence at the beginning of each school day in all public schools. It may only be required for K-8, but as far as I know it's a state law. Not one that is widely enforced, but it's the law.

I believe it started around the 2001 legislative session, because that's when DISD started doing it.

I'm not sure I agree with adding "under God" to the pledge to the state flag (nor was it particularly necessary in the 1950s), because it was an unnecessary addition which definitely made the pledge flow poorly, but we can't rid ourselves of the moralisitic Republicsns in this state. Oh well.