Here are my random comments on the world today:
- Is it possible that global warming has anything to do with the growing number of hurricanes? My friends in the radio world think the panic over global warming is crap. I haven't seen a polar icecap so I can't come up with an intelligent dissent. All I know is that the world is much more complex than little ole me, and even with 15 doctorates, I doubt I could explain why hurricanes have become nature's new black.
- Middle School - Last week on NPR, "experts" discussed the ramifications of sending children to middle school as opposed to an elementary school that included grades 6-7. Some experts proposed the in-between years of identity-searching caused psychological hardships that were amplified by advancing youngsters into a new school. Yes, middle school is a psychological nightmare - no doctorate needed for that observation. But to smash even more grades together in the same school as a means to protect children from psychological damage...you've gotta be kidding me! Sheltering kids isn't the answer. Actually, the upcoming generation's lack of work ethic accompanied with their personalized cell phones, scare me.
That's all for now.
3 comments:
My 2 cents?
1. More hurricanes is God's equivalent of "if you keep touching it, you'll go blind"
2. Middle school? It's called real life and it sucks. Might as well figure that out during the 5th to 6th grade transition.
1. Ha, for some reason that reminds me of what the school nurse would tell little Tommy about why he shouldn't spank the monkey.
2. I agree...if you survive middle school and still have any motivation left to make it to high school, you'll survive life.
Are you out of Ben & Jerry's yet? I can send reinforcements.
You're singing my song!
I can't understand how so many of today's "experts" want to erode the character out of our children. Like Whitney said, "give them a sense of pride..." There's no pride to be had if you've never been picked on one day and then went to school the next day with your head up high.
I guess it's the conspiracy that Tom Cruise is attempting to warn us about...the shrinks are running out of problem kids.
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