Let’s talk about how feel-good, politically
correct teachings created a generation of kids with no concept of reality and
how this concept set them up for failure in the real world…
Unfortunately, there
are some things that children should be learning in school, but don't. Not
all of them have to do with academics. As a modest back-to-school
offering, here are some basic rules that may not have found their way into
the standard curriculum.
Some Rules Kids
Won’t Learn In School” Charles J. Sykes
1. Life is not fair.
Get used to it. The average teen-ager uses the phrase, "It's not
fair" 8.6 times a day. You got it from your parents, who said it so
often you decided they must be the most idealistic generation ever. When they
started hearing it from their own kids.
2. The real world
won't care as much about your self-esteem as much as your school does.
It'll expect you to accomplish something before you feel good about
yourself. This may come as a shock. Usually, when inflated self-esteem meets
reality, kids complain it's not fair.
3. Sorry, you
won't make $40,000 a year right out of high school. And you won't be a
vice president or have a car phone either. You may even have to wear a
uniform that doesn't have a Gap label.
4. If you think
your teacher is tough, wait 'til you get a boss. He doesn't have tenure,
so he tends to be a bit edgier. When you screw up, he's not going to ask
you how you feel about it.
5. Flipping
burgers is not beneath your dignity. Your grandparents had a different
word for burger flipping. They called it opportunity. They weren't embarrassed
making minimum wage either. They would have been embarrassed to sit around
talking about Kurt Cobain or Britney Spears all weekend.
6. It's not your
parents' fault. If you screw up, you are responsible. This is the flip
side of "It's my life," and "You're not the boss of me,"
and other eloquent proclamations of your generation. When you turn 18,
it's on your dime. Don't whine about it, or you'll sound like a kid.
7. Before you
were born your parents weren't as boring as they are now. They got that
way paying your bills; cleaning up your room and listening to you tell
them how idealistic you are. And by the way, before you save the rain forest
from the blood-sucking parasites of your parents' generation, try delousing
the closet in your bedroom.
8. Your school
may have done away with winners and losers. Life hasn't. In some schools,
they'll give you as many times as you want to get the right answer.
Failing grades have been abolished and class valedictorians scrapped, lest
anyone's feelings be hurt. Effort is as important as results. This,
of course, bears not the slightest resemblance to anything in real life.
9. Life is not
divided into semesters, and you don't get summers off. Not even Easter
break. They expect you to show up every day. For eight hours. And you
don't get a new life every 10 weeks. It just goes on and on. While we're at
it, very few jobs are interesting in fostering your self-expression or
helping you find yourself. Fewer still lead to self-realization.
10. Television is not
real life. Your life is not a sitcom. Your problems will not all be solved
in 30 minutes, minus time for commercials. In real life, people actually
have to leave the coffee shop to go to jobs. Your friends will not be as
perky or pliable as Jennifer Aniston.
11. Be nice to nerds.
You may end up working for them. We all could.
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.
13. You are not
immortal. 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.
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 as to be a kid.
Maybe you should start now.
I say BRILLIANT! This should be mandatory
teachings…
RosieSandz
