Golly-gee, Sandy Sue! I Can’t Believe Your Boyfriend Just Gave You a Hug!
This is just utter ridiculousness (some might even call it fatuity): http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19293872/?GT1=10056. If I’ve ever heard of taking a little issue and blowing it out of proportion, this is it! The article talks about a high school where students are banned from touching each other in any way, at all, ever. No handshakes, no hugs, no shoulders to cry on when your best friend’s boyfriend cheats on her, no helping up the clumsy kid who just tripped over his own shoe and dropped all his books. I remember hating high school for stupid rules like this. Sure, kids can get out of hand, but it’s the job of our educators to educate them on what’s right and wrong, not to remove all their innate human liberties because one kid takes a handshake too far. I think this shows that there’s something seriously messed up in American culture and in our educational system.
The more news I’ve read lately, the more I realize that our law makers, schools, and honestly, most adults, have no clue about the younger generations. The children in this country are adapting much faster than their elders and it’s starting to show. Adults today need to wake up and change too – use the internet, start txting, watch something other than the news, whatever they have to do to actually communicate with younger people. Hey, I’m not a kid anymore and I’m saying this! More often than not, I see adults being far too afraid of change. It’s time to get off our butts and learn about how we’re progressing so we can help make it better, rather than just scrambling to catch up once we’re so far buried that there’s no digging to the surface. That trapped feeling leads to stupid rules like the one in the article above. Instead, as intelligent adults, we should be embracing the changes and adapting with them.
And now, it’s time for bed, as I’m getting all excited about something that most adults don’t understand anyway. That’s really the big problem. I’m not even sure they’re trying…
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