General Discussion

I am the oldest of 6. 4 boys 2 girls. 8 nieces and nephews from 38 to 21.
I have 5 children from 56 to 38. 8 grandchildren from 27 to 4.
I am a retired high school teacher who taught mostly level 1 and 2 students with occassional escapes to level 5.
I relish conversation from viewpoints that corroborate and refute my own perspectives.
Every person I've communicated with is a product of their environment.
Everyone of them has done the best they can at the time they are doing it.
If you say these youngsters who do not live up to your expectations are stupid, how did they get here?
None of them want to fail.
They want to be someone. They seek answers from their environment. They will make choices to the best of their ability.
Nature is itself, the challenge.
We built this system and accepted what we could not change. If we didn't respond early the time was lost.
We didn't respond early, just like every generation before us, but somehow we got here.
Bemoaning is cathartic for us, but not for those unready to recognize the encumbrance.
Many of us have yet to recognize our time has passed.
Our grandparents and parents passed on their learning experiences from the Depression, from the War.
Many of us just lived the advantages they left us. They did not pass on that shared experience. They passed on our abundance.
That abundance is nature to our youth.
They are having their own learning experience.
Do you seriously think they consider the consequences of their actions or inactions?
Trump gets away with everything.
We all have the forgiveness thing as an operational in our heavenly aspirations.
It is the least powerful who cannot escape the pitfalls of their mistakes.
What you describe is real, but it's impact is as well.
We are not going escape the impact of this time. None of us are.
We will just manage.