Yet Another Holiday Observation
What is going on with people this time of the year!
I work at a school that has been around for over 150 years. One main building and several newer wings surrounding it. The roads surrounding the school are all newer streets and have been placed way to close. The back of our school has a main road (2way) about 6 feet away. Teachers park along the back of the building as well because we have no parking lot.
People have been flying down this road more then normal. I have almost been hit 3 times this week alone and I am in the cross walk. Did these people forget that we are in a school zone? Did they forget that pedestrians have the right away as soon as they are in the crosswalk area? My guess is that they are in such a rush that they dont care about anyone but themselves.
In another instance, I was going home from work about 4:30 ish and was stuck at a red light. To the right of me was a Fire Engine waiting to cross the intersection, waiting for people to leave a space for them to pull out. Well, people did not let them pull out. Instead a lady in a large SUV with a handicap sticker pulled infront of it and would not move until we got a red light. The nerve….
Have you noticed this? The selfish behavior? The rude tones we go through and feel this time of the year? I do! And I must say it carries it on to the kids…they feel it too! They feel their surroundings more than adults do. You can see it in their school work, their social environment and their personal attitude.
We tend to blame it on them because…lets face it….it is the easiest explaination. We get them to go to doctors to give them labels that prove that we are right, its completely their fault. Hell, we are paying the medical bill so we must be their customers and the customers are always right. The truth of the matter is we are the ones with the problems and our children are reacting to them.
Just watch the TV show the Nanny to prove this. Or even better yet watch the Dog Wisperer. Im not saying every parent has the problem and the child is just reacting or children are like dogs. Im saying that in over 90% of the issues children have can be followed back to the parent or problems stemming from home.
How do we correct this as a society? I have no answer but I do believe that less stress on the parents would help. We need to help the foundations of our familys as a country. Basic necessities need to be made available.
President Bush’s “No Child Left Behind” is an absolute joke if the we can’t help the child have a safe home! It must be the schools fault if the child doesnt succeed or is a complete slacker. Point fingers, point them all over the place but until we point them at ourselves we will never see impovement in our own lives or our childrens.
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