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Post by Demona on Jun 7, 2009 10:35:27 GMT -5
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Post by dannyboy on Jun 7, 2009 14:44:48 GMT -5
I don't think that was too bad. She didn't say that the graduation hat and gown shouldn't be worn just that nobody looks good in it.
I think she is right too that being able to survive by earning a financial living is more important than being good at video games is also a good point.
It reminds me of some of the training I took in auto tech. A number of the students wanted to have their engines bored out, get high performance parts making their Chevy Malibu or whatever into a fast drag car. Some wanted to get into building racecars.
My dad got my attention early and said to me "There's little to no occupational promise in building racecars. The professor's Cadillac, the Doctor's Lincoln and your neighbor's Dodge Ram will be needing brakes, tires, waterpumps radiators and steering parts. That will butter your bread not making it go 0 to 60 faster."
That's what I remembered immediately a few moments ago when I read the link Demona Firebrand sent.
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Post by Jersey on Jun 7, 2009 22:11:27 GMT -5
In the liberal world of puppy dog kisses and unicorn farts, anybody that hurts anybody elses feelings, in any way shape or form, deserves to have their free speech rights taken away.  |
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Post by Phil on Jun 8, 2009 14:28:19 GMT -5
Soft pedaling things only makes for soft society. That girl seems pretty down to earth and honest to me. She is right. You can't do much without money. To earn money you have to have some qualifications. You also have to be aggressively willing to work at things too.
I am glad that a few younger people realize that. I have become increasingly concerned that the realization had faded away.
I fear that things have come too easy to so many people that as a culture we have partially lost the capacity to help ourselves.
I realize that each generation's hard work and sacrifices were intended to make their following generation's life easier. The concept has worked for the most part. I know my kids have it a little easier in most ways than I did. I for sure had it easier than my parents did and they had it easier than their parents.
When my grandparents were my age there were primitive cars, which by the way were way advanced compared to a covered horse pulled wagon, coarse roads no tv, but there were radios.
We come to now where my 12 year old has a cell phone, and a laptop computer with a wireless router.
So what happens from here is its my job as his father, in conjunction with my wife, to force the issue that these things are the result of labor and hard work. We can't go to the movies and the theme park because there's a set budget this weekend and even if we have enough money in the bank to do both by the time the mortgage is paid and the truck payment, next week we wouldn't have enough left for entertainment.
Just a sample of it. That message had to be taught repeatedly and even displayed at times.
I'm very proud of my son. He gets off the bus and empties the dishwasher, cleans the counter tops and reloads the dishwasher. He sets the plates and place mats on the dinner table. Then he meets the grade school bus for his brother.
He no longer has to be told those things he knows that happens everyday before any playing or games can happen.
Once in a while we make and exception but only once in a while.
I'm pleased to see this young lady from Springstead, Florida has that message and had the courage to convey it.
She even had some school spirit in it too. Very down to earth and honest I think.
QUOTE.
"But, the most important thing that I can tell you tonight is to remember where you came from. You were an eagle once. We've been through four long years here. Some of us have loved it, some of us have hated it, but we all had to endure it, and for all of us, it's finally over. What's Springstead going to be like without us?"
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Post by Blastgirl on Jun 9, 2009 21:29:05 GMT -5
I think it's motivational and Down to Earth. Our society today is too afraid of offending people and not discussing important issues because someone might be offended.
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Post by Phil on Jun 10, 2009 14:23:53 GMT -5
It's more about how most of us forum members feel. They want you to sugar coat things to make sure you don't offend other people. In short that speech tells people to be self sufficient and financially qualified to make a living. She didn't say you all need to become doctors or scientists, just to be able to be gainfully employable.
Where's the offensiveness there?
She's right playing all day doens't butter your bread.
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Post by fartinggurl on Jun 10, 2009 23:40:24 GMT -5
I'm liberal, but I think that the speech she gave was honest. It's not like she dropped the f-bomb while giving it. Who cares if it offended someone? If everyone agreed with everybody on different issues, this world would be a very boring place.
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