Time Again

[Unkotare]

As I have noted from time to time, while the challenges to, in, and from America's public schools - particularly in heavily urban areas - are frequently mentioned and often bemoaned, it should be mentioned and remembered that there are a lot of good, industrious, smart and ambitious kids in these schools and these cities working extremely hard under sometimes extremely difficult conditions in order to fulfill their potential. These kids are an inspiration and deserve as much attention as trouble-makers or under-achievers. There's a lot that's great in America, and these kids are part of it.

 

[DGS49]

Agreed. Also many such schools have AP, IB, or comparable programs to cater to the outstanding students.

Here in pittsburgh, every student who graduates with a B average gets a substantial 4 - year scholarship, funded by private charities.

 

[Unkotare]

But the Trump hair threads are the ones that end up 20 pages long.

 

[xeinenth]

Strangers to Ourselves: Discovering the Adaptive Unconscious by Dr. Timothy D. Wilson (pg 199):

"Surely people should not always heed other people's opinions about their career options. There are well-known instances in which people succeeded in spite of the general opinion of others that they never would. Albert Einstein, for example, had an inauspicious beginning to his academic career: at age sixteen he failed an entrance examination to an engineering school. Instead of giving up, he continued his schooling, applied again, and was finally admitted. No one was particularly impressed by his accomplishments at the engineering school; when he graduated in 1900 he failed to receive any job offers. He finally accepted a temporary position as director of the patent office in Bern, Switzerland, where he stayed for seven years. It was there that he wrote his first articles on relativity theory, in his spare time, eventually earning a doctorate from the University of Zurich in 1905."

I have a worrying propensity focused toward disabled student bodies. How can we assure these kinds of pupils that even they are worthy of great things?? Einstein can surely inspire them to seek after the innumerable opportunities; and also find the niches that satisfy the call to come through strong despite adversities. Overcoming shortcomings with such a passionately interspersed underpinning tends to be very emotionally rousing... most notably when the divine hand comes upon them in this time too. Jesus can enable these sorts of ramshackled combatants to overcome every arising barrier, thence that they then also will derive joy from the gifts in the spirit and have an intimate association with the heavenly realm. And if we are to be economically conscientious it is best if we try to more promptly assimilate strickenly hamstrung individuals since we are all flawed in some capacity even when we wish to mask it. So, don't be shy — accept your deficits, embrace your pitfalls and be a better man for it.

 

[Unkotare]

Every time you read some story about how poorly American students are doing, or what a nightmare inner-city schools are, remember there are more very bright kids out there trying more than their hardest under conditions most could not imagine.