two stories–that mirror problems that happen the world over and make me sad about the human species. with just a little effort we can make the daily lives of people around us better. we could all start caring a little more and being nice to each other! (like at least call an ambulance if you see someone choking…if you do not want to try first aid…do not just step over them!!)
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/law-and-order/12052943/McDonalds-Cheltenham-customers-step-over-disabled-man-choking-to-death.html
or maybe not bully and assault other kids in school! (what is the purpose of bullying and violence?)
http://www.local10.com/news/mother-says-coral-springs-high-school-dropping-the-ball
I need to buy one for everyone in the world…I am just a couple billion short on the $$$$
A relative on my husband’s side of the family left a different high school in Coral Springs (city mentioned above) due to the destructive environment. This kid went through their public schools almost the whole way through. It was very disappointing.
It seems like it is worse than it used to be. Then again we had bullying at my high school in the 80’s.
southfloirdamom9 what could be more enjoyable as a teen…than waking up at 545-600am to get on a bus to start school at 730am only to get beat up too.
Good grief! I grew up in Coral Springs from the late 60’s to early 80’s. (though I went to St. Thomas Aquinas for high school) What is going on there?
I think these things have always happened, but years ago we didn’t hear about incidents from across the state, let alone from across the Atlantic. Honestly, we didn’t hear about them in our own town other than through gossip.
Growing up, we got the daily local small town paper, and the daily biggest paper in the state. And the “local” TV news was broadcast at 5:00 and 10:00 from a town of 70,000 sixty miles away. National news was at 6. The radio news sure wasn’t covering bullying or suicides or poverty. It covered the farm futures, the sports scores and the weather.
You just didnt have the option of 24 hour news on multiple TV channels, and there was no internet.
You would have had to work a lot harder to find news or information about bullying and man’s inhumanity to man stories.
My heart’s edit: “You [should] have had to work a lot harder to find news or information about bullying and man’s inhumanity to man stories.”
I suspect humans, like other primates, have a natural tendency to show loyalty to their communities. We’re born with that.
What has to be learned is what counts as one’s community. Some people see no further than family or neighborhood or gang. For others, its country or continent or even the world.
One argument for education outside the home is the expansion of one’s sense of community. Sometimes it even works.
My husband says Coral Springs has changed alot since then . . . unfortunately. St. Thomas is still a great high school though.