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I was referring more to PHYSICAL labor, and I'm convinced that many 20-somethings have never done any at all...EVER. Especially when there's an I-Phone to stare at every minute of the day...
My students maybe late teens not early 20s, but many of them work very hard, frequently for no other reason than because they want to help someone out.
Last year 15 of my seniors who had just graduated the year before came back from college and spent three entire weekends moving furniture, ripping out sheet rock, filling dumpsters, and basically getting really filthy to help people in our area effected by Sandy. The one weekend I didn't go with them, they randomly met a guy in the street who asked for help and they (and one of the dad's) built this man a wheelchair ramp so his dad could come home.
The summer before the storm, another group of 30 of them spent four separate days digging dune grass up and removing all of the roots to help a restoration project at our local national park.
Next weekend a bunch of the current ones are going to a less privileged neighborhood to build/refurbish three classrooms in the basement to act as an aftercare facility for a local elementary school.
Enough of this myth that "kids nowadays" are lazy.
Anyone remember this bumper sticker? I saw one the other day and instead of chuckling, it set me to thinking. I'm a little tired of the anti-education, anti-intellectual attitude that so many people in this country seem to have.
When it really comes down to it this bumper sticker is not funny. It suggests that not having an honor student is something for a parent to be proud of.
Blue collar jobs are disappearing in this country. Whether we like it or not, young people are going to require advanced education to succeed in all the high technology fields that will have job openings. That's a message we need to send to young people.
If you think that bumper sticker is funny, its really not.
How is any bumper sticker, that brags about your child being a bully, funny? It's nothing more than a pathetic attempt, to make excuses, for your child not doing well in school. What that bumper sticker says to me? Here is a "grownup", acting like a little brat, who is saying, "Oh yeah, well, your kid might be smarter, but my kid can kick your kid's a$$". It says to me, that the person who put the bumper sticker on that car, needs to grow up! It makes me feel sorry for their kid!
So...well played, oh brilliant parent. You've just announced, to the entire world, with that little sticker, that you are an epic failure as a parent. Well played indeed!
So very glad our kids went to school in an area where being smart was cool
And that's just it.
When I say I want my kid around other kids who are about achieving and good grades, people on this forum call me a snob. That's just another form of anti-intellectualism.
Frankly, everyone knows that your environment (family, peers) plays the biggest part in your personal success...so why is it a bad thing to want a good environment?
It's not a bad thing. But people don't like feeling snubbed/excluded.
You know, when you play with better people, your game levels up. That's what we should ALL want.
Personally, I find the 'My kid in an honor student' ones the most annoying....as the parents that tend to have them are most annoying sorts. I am the parent of an honor student but I didn't have to plaster it on the back of my car for attention. It's not anti-education at all...it's anti-bragging.
I love the people in this thread that are pro-honor roll stickers and anti "my kid beat up your honor student" stickers, because some of them (not all) come across crazily smug; "My honor roll sticker is harmless, it can't offend anyone, it is necessary for the children to develop emotionally!" followed by "Your sticker is in bad taste, it is offensive, you promote all the violence in the world!"
LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL
Again, not all of the pro honor roll sticker crowd is like this, but a lot are, and it is funny as heck.
Anyone remember this bumper sticker? I saw one the other day and instead of chuckling, it set me to thinking. I'm a little tired of the anti-education, anti-intellectual attitude that so many people in this country seem to have.
When it really comes down to it this bumper sticker is not funny. It suggests that not having an honor student is something for a parent to be proud of.
Blue collar jobs are disappearing in this country. Whether we like it or not, young people are going to require advanced education to succeed in all the high technology fields that will have job openings. That's a message we need to send to young people.
If you think that bumper sticker is funny, its really not.
im not so sure its "anti-intellectual" so much as "anti-bragging about your child."
I can tell you are all parents. The bumper sticker is making fun of you not your kids.
+1
Actually, I've seen the bumper sticker. It is basically making fun of the parents that display the sticker "Proud parent of Honor Roll Student". Attention-seeking parent, boastful parent ideal bumper sticker. So the bumper sticker stating "my student beat up your honor roll student" is getting a rise out of the boasting parent. Get it? Good
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