[SBE] Pandora?

[Edwin Bukont]

Henry

 

I have to take issue with your calling out the kids with low self esteem and the accomodations made for them.  First off, those accomodations are not made for the kids, they are made more so for the parents, who are embarrassed at what their child might reflect about their parenting.  But what about the kids with high achievement and high self esteem?  I quite frankly have had enough of the Honor Society bullies.  Those would be the wunderkind who rise to Wall Street, or the GM office, and cause the grief we now have in this industry and in this country in general.  You fail to realize that by contributing to the stepping upon of the downtrodden,  you are also contributing to the 'see no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil' attitude that gives "acceptable" bullies a pass on their bad behavior.  Your attitude is what leads to Columbine, where the little people feel, rightly so, that the school accepts their being picked on, but will never admit that it is often the captain of the football team which is the real aggressor.  Everybody thinks its funny when the star jock picks on the wimpy nerd, but they are quick to discipline when the nerd erases the jock's homework!!   (Yeah, I did that!!). If I had a dollar for every bully jock I had to tutor in Senior year, despite how I was treated, I would have been about one whole Bergen Co. leaque richer at graduation.  I laughed hard when I found out that our President of the Honor Society didnt last one semester at Harvard, because guess what, he got caught getting A's in college the same whay he did in HS, but nobody questioned his high achievements.  If it were up to me, there would be neither athletics or Honor Society in school, just the Three Rs and the ruler.

Edwin Bukont CSRE, DRB, CBNT 
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From: A9xw at cs.com
Date: Mon, 5 Jul 2010 15:01:10 -0400
To: sbe at sbe.org
Subject: [SBE] Pandora?

When I hear killer ap, to me it means mind killing ap. No thinking needed, just pay and ignore the real important stuff in life. I could be way wrong, but I think most kids today want to have their own infinite play list to their ipod/iphone etc and that may be one reason RADIO has not been included in these devices for the most part. With access to anything ever recorded on a cloud server, a small fee and bingo, they are off in their fantasy land. Radio provides stuff they really need to know, but they are not aware enough of the world to understand current events and geopolitical news is important to know. I find our pap filled school systems and PC history books and lack of achievement standards [lets not have a kid with low esteem find out they are failures so scoreless games, no grades, and lets make them all cookie cutter Ken and Barbie] gives them no appreciation for how we got to the wonderland of technology and freedom. They have become pawns.  I could really rant on this but won't since the moderator doesn't like it. 

Henry 		 	   		  
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