Last night I worked as usual. With Jamie and Kim as usual. We made our usual jokes and had our usual d&m conversations. At one point towards the end of the night we were talking about how much kids use their phones these days and how fast our world was changing. And then Kim said something that made me think.
She said,
“You know what I like about Steph? She gives me hope that there are still some decent kids left in this world.”
I was shocked. Firstly that someone would say that about me, but mostly because someone had to say that about me. What I mean by this is that these days the children and young adults in this world are so demanding and inconsiderate that it has become a rare occasion that you meet a genuinely kind person.
I’m not trying to big note myself here by saying that I am one of the rarities, because personally I don’t think that I am. But I still see kids in the world today that are, to be totally honest, horrible little brats.
They think that they have a right to everything. They have a right to defy their parents, who have given them everything. They have a right to not obey any order given to them from anyone. They have a right to do whatever they want, whenever they want, to whoever they want. They have the right to backchat any adult who pisses them off. They have the right to be totally selfish and not think about anyone else, either in their family or around them. They have the right to demand anything off their parents or teachers. They have the right.
What happened to respect?
What happened to manners?
What happened to decency?
What happened to politeness?
What happened to the world?
Back just fifty years ago, the most important people in your life were your family. You respected them and loved them and they were the people who you were closest to. Your siblings were your best friends, the people who you told everything to. What happened? I know that my family isn’t like that, and I don’t think that many other families are like that at all. All kids want these days is to go out with their friends and spend the least amount of time with their family. Back fifty years ago, you would never backchat your parents. If they told you to do something, you would do it. No questions asked. If you even opened your mouth you would get the belt. Nowadays, there are laws against hitting your children. That’s fair enough because too many people have been the victims of brutal abuse. But having a no harm policy against children has made them demanding. They ask for everything under the sun because they know that they won’t get in trouble for it. The amount of people whose parents give them money “just because they need it” is ridiculous. What does that teach them in life? That things will just be given to them, free of charge, no questions asked. They’re going to get quite a shock when they get out into the real world.
Back fifty years ago, you would never think of disobeying your teachers. They were giving you opportunity, they were giving you a chance to do well in life later on. To disobey them was the most ungrateful thing to do. And yet here we are, having to suspend a student for verbally abusing a teacher. What right does that girl think she has to attack a teacher like that? Every right of course!
That story goes further. See this girl who verbally abused a teacher is the very same girl who is on the news tonight for getting expelled for “shaving her head, which the principal found disgusting and suspended her because she didn’t want freaks in her school.”
What sickens me is the fact that this is a lie. This girl, Emily Pridham, has always been an attention seeker. She is one of those fickle sort of girls who place an awful lot of importance on social status. Anyone who doesn’t have a very high social status isn’t worth anything. And Emily Pridham has never had a very high social status. So she has always done things to draw attention to herself, probably in an attempt to gain a higher social status. In a nutshell, she’s a wannabe.
I do feel sorry for her. All her life she has had to struggle with her father who is dying of cancer. It could possibly be that the stress of this ordeal pushes her past the limits some times. But I don’t believe that there is any excuse for verbally abusing a teacher, using atrocious language. And it hasn’t been only one time either. This is the real reason that our principal suspended her. But to then turn around and go calling to the media telling them that she was suspended for shaving her head is disgusting.
If she wanted attention, she certainly got it. She’s been on several news programs as well as quite a few radio shows. And what she’s been telling them is this. That she came to school yesterday morning with a shaved head, to raise money for leukaemia, which is what her dad is suffering from. That Mrs Tuite called her to her office and told her that shaving her head was disgusting and that she was being suspended for it because Mrs Tuite didn’t want freaks in her school.
Does she realise what sort of complications she has caused for Mrs Tuite? Does she realise what a bad name she has put on our school? Why won’t she take responsibility for her actions of not respecting the teachers? Why is she lying to the media and taking this nationwide just to get attention? And why is she proud of all of this?
Some people astonish me with their selfishness. With their inability to care for other people’s feelings. With their rudeness and the little amount of respect they have for anyone.
What has happened to the world?
I'd be proud and two no one even knows the full story including me. But I know a little bit and I think everyone should cut her some slack. Your principal or Mrs T or whoever she is isn't much better. Suspend a kid for shaving her head for a good cause.. FOR her DYING father.. PFFT, not letting her leave early to see her dad before surgery. Everyone seems to be giving her a hard time. So what if shes not popular. Not everyone is.... Honestly, Imagine if you were in her position. How would you cope Steph? You wouldn't
ReplyDeleteBrad you are an example of the people who she has conned into believing her. Everyone outside of Mta is sympathising with her, including you apparently. But like you said, you don't know the full story. She WAS NOT suspended for shaving her head. And by taking it to the media she has put dirt on the name of Mount Alvernia. Did you know that because of her little lie, plenty of people at mta have been abused, called names ad had food thrown at them by stranges who they don't even know? People like you who have listened to her lie on television and believed her. What would you say if I told you that because of her lying, Mrs Tuite, who has done NOTHING wrong, almost started crying on assembly because of all the abuse she has copped from everybody for something she didn't even do or say? Everybody at Mta has been blamed all because of Emily Pridham's lying. No one should be proud of lying, Brad.
ReplyDeleteAnd just because her dad is dying doesn't mean she can do whatever she sweet pleases. I said I do feel sorry for her. No one should have to suffer seeing their father die. But that still DOES NOT mean that she can abuse the hell out of one of the nicest teachers in our school. I wouldn't cope seeing my dad die, Brad, but I also wouldn't abuse a teacher for it either.