An interesting experience this morning.
Sep 4, 2023 15:29:17 #
I did something that I had never done before.
My son-in-law asked me to pull a float in a parade for his robotics team (he's the president of "1720 Phyxt Gears" competitive robotics team in Matthews, Indiana). Pulling the float was no big deal. What impressed me was the demeanor of the young people involved with the project. Every kid (grades 7-12) was enthusiastic, polite, courteous, and helpful. Each had a job and did it to perfection without being asked or prompted. It simply happened on time and like clockwork. They even invited me out for ice cream with them after everything was put away.
We hear a lot these days about how lazy and uninterested today's young people are, but this group, at least, convinced me that we may be in good hands after all. Team 1720 impresses me.
My son-in-law asked me to pull a float in a parade for his robotics team (he's the president of "1720 Phyxt Gears" competitive robotics team in Matthews, Indiana). Pulling the float was no big deal. What impressed me was the demeanor of the young people involved with the project. Every kid (grades 7-12) was enthusiastic, polite, courteous, and helpful. Each had a job and did it to perfection without being asked or prompted. It simply happened on time and like clockwork. They even invited me out for ice cream with them after everything was put away.
We hear a lot these days about how lazy and uninterested today's young people are, but this group, at least, convinced me that we may be in good hands after all. Team 1720 impresses me.
Sep 4, 2023 15:31:57 #
Sep 4, 2023 15:32:39 #
jaymatt wrote:
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What a nice story, thank you for sharing it.
Sep 4, 2023 15:38:51 #
Wonderful! Yesterday I met the people who bought the house next door and their children always want to be outside...without cell phones. Hard to believe now days!!!
Sep 4, 2023 16:24:47 #
cahale
Loc: San Angelo, TX
jaymatt wrote:
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My kind of kids - really not normal.
Sep 4, 2023 18:31:42 #
Wonders happen when kids are raised correctly! Thanks for some good news John.
Don
Don
Sep 4, 2023 21:33:35 #
My 15 year old grandson started his freshman year at a program at a local college where once he graduates in 4 years he will have an associates degree and if he joined the robotics team for the full 4 years he will graduate with somekind of engineering degree or certification.only certain kids were accepted to either program.my other grandson who is 19 went through these 2 programs and now it over at the island university with one year of college under his belt and now on his 2nd year and by May he should have his Batchelor's degree.
Sep 4, 2023 22:40:49 #
That has been my experience too, as a college instructor. You can get dysfunctional young people in every generation, but in my experience, young people today tend to be less racist, less misogynistic, and also far more accepting of gay people and people who are just different.
Sep 5, 2023 05:53:02 #
Sep 5, 2023 06:00:59 #
jaymatt wrote:
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Thank you for the post John, it gives us hope! Parents raised their children well
Sep 5, 2023 06:38:48 #
I can agree with all that has been said here. However, I have been driving a school bus for the last 16 years, and when I started I said, "it has been an education," and it hasn't changed to today. About the time that you think that you have seen it all, you learn that you haven't! I have seen both types of behavior, from the pre-school kid that can cuss like a sailor (no disrespect intended, as I am a retired sailor) and has no respect for others, to the behavior that has received praise here today, and I hope, as we all do, that the behavior you have attested to is in the majority. For if it is, than we will truly be in good hands, and there's hope for the future.
Sep 5, 2023 07:26:59 #
I would be perfectly ok with the young people of today, if not for one thing: Their TEACHERS!!! It is THEY, who influence our kids. They fill their minds with all sorts of "WOKE' garbage. Hitler was a past master of this theory, get them while they are YOUNG and mold them the way YOU want, and you have a generation of automatons who will do your bidding.
I am so glad to read that somewhere in our great country there are parents and teachers that are molding the next generation the right way! I wish more stories like this one would emerge and keep coming to the fore, instead of the opposite!
I am so sick of having lgbtabgddkdk junk, forced down my throat by the so called "media."
These are My Thoughts, and I won't argue with anyone about them.....!
I am so glad to read that somewhere in our great country there are parents and teachers that are molding the next generation the right way! I wish more stories like this one would emerge and keep coming to the fore, instead of the opposite!
I am so sick of having lgbtabgddkdk junk, forced down my throat by the so called "media."
These are My Thoughts, and I won't argue with anyone about them.....!
Sep 5, 2023 07:52:00 #
Sep 5, 2023 08:04:01 #
jaymatt wrote:
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Great News, WOW!
JimmyT Sends
Bravo Zulu
Sep 5, 2023 08:20:48 #
For thousands of years, older folks have been complaining about how bad the younger generation is. Most of the complaints are not valid. You can find the same spread in adults - overachievers and underachievers - and criminals.
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