posted by Joe Polk at 11:50 PM /
High school students everywhere can quickly identify the social pressures they feel daily about appearance, sexuality, popularity, drug and alcohol use and the desire to fit in.
How those pressures are handled and how they affect relationships among students will be explored at Mt. Lebanon High School on Jan. 24, with a program called "Putting Others First. It Starts With You ... How You Can Make a Difference?"
Link: www.postgazette.com/pg/07018/754604-55.stm
Labels: high school
8 Comments:
This was a thought provoking presentation, if the students were as disrespectful and disruptive in their sessions as they said, and in light of the USC game incident... maybe a course should be required in the curriculum. An occasional presentation or two is too easily forgotten.
This is no less important than math, english, health and gym. We need our kids to THINK about who and what they are!
Wow, I thought Google moved their blogger stuff totally over to the new database? I guess not, things are sluggish.
Anyway.
I am not going to be a people friendly moralist here. This is a dog eat dog world, and by trying to manipulate young children, you are only hurting them.
Let me elaborate. If you do not address the issue of moral uprightness to the human population as a whole, then you will not get results. The ones that conform to the former will be eaten up by the perverted and corrupt. If you want to teach the children how to treat each other, you should start at the parents. And even then, we will never reach the truth, the pure, if you will. "Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it. ~Andre Gide"
The kids that treat the others with disrespect are because of their parents. Who are you hypocrites to criticize the Mt. Lebanon school body to see at the same time the corruption in your heart?
The poster above me: Out of no disrespect, I respect your opinion. However, you obviously do not understand human nature. You cannot force a man to do something he is not wanting to do, or he will deviate the lesson into something that pleases him. Only by the Grace of God is change possible. Man is wicked.
We hurt each other every day, and we ignore the beautiful. None of us get to slow down to enjoy the small things in life, we are always moving. As a result, we are always taking all the great things around us for granite (I'm a moron, I've never been able to spell that word correctly.).
The biggest problem: Conformity
Who are we hypocrites to tell each other to treat others with respect when we conform to society so tightly? Society tells children to treat the ugly kids, the geeks, the smarts horribly. Parents, again need to show their kids that conformity corrupts, and that doing things differently provokes thought and allows us all to think abstractly.
The impure lies in us all, not specifically in one. It is easy to point the finger, but how hard is it to point out the impurities residing in our own hearts.
And WOW, I have waaaay too much time on my hands.
Cole-
What in the word are you talking about. I'm the first post here... never did I suggest manipulating anyone. I proposed a course for the kids to THINK... to evaluate... to discover.
We cannot change the whole world, but we can influence our little corner.
Parents shouldn't teach their kids to conform, but they should teach social skills, etiquette and personal responsibility!
Cole, being an individual doesn't excuse one from disrespectful or disobedient behavior.
An individual doesn't have the right to spit on people, disrupt assemblies, slur one's economic or physical condition, such as was done at the assembly, the USC game.
There's is nothing hypocritical in discussing/learning/teaching the reasoning behind socially acceptable behavior. Perhaps you think the Ten Commandents, The Bill of Rights are impure too?
Cole you quote Andre Gide:
"Believe those who are seeking the truth,"...
(then suggest the commentor is a hypocrite for suggesting a course of study to do just that.)
"Doubt those who find it."
(then you proclaim- This is a dog eat dog world, and by trying to manipulate young children, you are only hurting them.)
Mmmmm, something's amiss in your logic?
You have obviously not read his statement. You go and say for people to treat others with respect, and then you go and treat others like sh*t the next day.
You cannot force people to change, and if you do, you will remove a part of them in the process. He did ramble a little, but the point is obvious and makes sense.
One must discover why they must act good. This could be within the bounds of religion, spirituality, or a life truth revealed. The problem with the two comments preceding me, is that they did not read anything 'cole' said.
The Ten Commandments and the Bill of Rights are documents that tell us what right is, however they do not tell us why we should be just. There is no class that can teach that, it must be found in life's experiences.
The first poster here said he (or she) wanted students to take a course trying to generally force kids to be good people. You never said manipulate, but you implied it. We all know what 'good' is already, but as I have said, you cannot force it on any one person via some 'class'.
School cannot teach everything. We learn from life, not school. School is just an interference with our true educations.
Anon 12:04
You are the one that needs to go back and reread the first poster's comment.
They never said force or manipulate anyone. Did you read the last sentence.
"We need our kids to THINK (capitale letters) THINK about who and what they are!
No manipulation, no force, implied or otherwise, just a venue to observe, discuss and make their own choices with others. Thought that was what learning was about, the path to to the truth.
WHo's treating anyone like sh*t... Cole called the first poster a hypocrite.
Tell me anon 12:04, where does "one must discover why they must act good" go to make this discovery?
Is there one place, self, parents, church, school, environment where you get the answer. Or is it a continuing process, that occurs everyday, everywhere?
Do you really believe school is an interference with our education. Better read Anre Gibe's qoute about truth again, "doubt those who find it.
I believe school is just one book in life's library!
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