BOP
Well-Known Member
I can't remember NOT being in the camp that believes that our society is better off if EVERYONE succeeds. Oh, I'm sure that during my youth, I didn't think about it, or care. The military changed that for me, and even though I went through a long period of turmoil that involved a religious cult, heavy drinking and drug abuse, I've still long believed that if society's weakest members succeeded, we all succeed. That has nothing to do with social promotion, but with an individual's own merit, and a helping hand based exclusively on that individual's own efforts and will to succeed.
That combined willingness to work hard and do what it takes, along with the helping hand of others who saw that attitude and effort is what lifted me out of alcoholism and drug abuse, and out of poverty into first, a blue collar career in the automotive field, into college, and after that, into a white collar career, from which I retired after 22 years.
I am profoundly grateful for the helpers out there who see people with potential working hard, struggling to succeed, who reach out and say "let me give you a hand."
Perhaps that's at least part of the reason teachers and administrators stay at places like the school mentioned in the video. I mean, as a primary school teacher, you're going to work hard anyway; why not stay where you can actually make a difference in children's lives and contribute to their success?
John Stossel, who I can't remember not following, liking, watching avidly, has been beating this drum for as long as I can remember. And for just as long, the Government school administrators have railed against him and his message, and have even tried to shut him down.
That combined willingness to work hard and do what it takes, along with the helping hand of others who saw that attitude and effort is what lifted me out of alcoholism and drug abuse, and out of poverty into first, a blue collar career in the automotive field, into college, and after that, into a white collar career, from which I retired after 22 years.
I am profoundly grateful for the helpers out there who see people with potential working hard, struggling to succeed, who reach out and say "let me give you a hand."
Perhaps that's at least part of the reason teachers and administrators stay at places like the school mentioned in the video. I mean, as a primary school teacher, you're going to work hard anyway; why not stay where you can actually make a difference in children's lives and contribute to their success?
John Stossel, who I can't remember not following, liking, watching avidly, has been beating this drum for as long as I can remember. And for just as long, the Government school administrators have railed against him and his message, and have even tried to shut him down.
