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Janiice
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Youth In The World.
November 9, 2006 - 04:18 PM
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Have you ever noticed if a youth walks into a discussion room and everyone seems to stare.
I've had happened to be on numerous occasions. I am an active volunteer with my provience and do someday hope to become a lawyer or judge. I am currently completing my last year of high school and am looking at university options. What I have noticed is that most universities and collages only accept those students who are achademy well achieve. Don't we have rights to beable to attend what school we choose. Instead of the school choosing us? I do find this disgrading and humilating that we are unable to choose what we would like to do with our lifes & our future is like is really choosin for us, when you really think about it. I do beleive that the aging population is going to need youth sooner then everyone would like to think and to help the world. How is that possiable when it seems that we have a opinion we seems to get push down and overlooked because of our age? Is that all youth are immature because they do not seem to have the correct qualifications to participate into dicussions that might mean something.
There are many struggles along the way that even I sometimes have to back down from, as you probally noticed I am not your ordinary 17 year old, I do have things that might not matter to most of those others my age world and I do not let people push me back when I am determined to get something, expecially if it means something to me. I am on a Provincal Youth Council, there are only 12 of us on this council and we deal with matters what may not right now involve us but in 5-20 years time may be more of our problem then anyone elses. The council alone that proven to me many things that I though I wouldn't be able to do alone, and have shaped me into who I am and who I would like to be in the near future. Education won't stop me, Administraters will not stop me either, for I know its important to not only succed in life, but to suceed with something you love to do.
This post was edited on: 2006-11-11 at 09:42 AM by: Janiice
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Lynn Abdouni
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why frustration?
November 10, 2006 - 03:29 AM
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i certainly agree with the frustration you may be feeling for the "schools picking kids" phenomena... but it can't go otherwise.
in a reasonnable world (supposed ours) schools evaluate students that are more likely to adapt to the system and are more likely to be productive. so a guy/girl 's gotta do what he/she can to prove they are capable...
However, what's not accpetable is the use of other criteria to accept/reject an application. Example: How much money does he have, if he knows anybody from the factuly, if he beongs to a certain political party, if any of the administration staff has a personal problem with his family, and so on...
eventually, i think it's more of a challenge, and i think youth should give their opinion like older people do through their perspective... so there's nothing to stare at!
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Agreed.
November 10, 2006 - 03:36 PM
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I hear you. On the topic of education, I'd like to take it a bit further. I'm not sure how primary education is elsewhere, but in the US, a persons future options are crafted when they are too young to foresee their own future. Often times, elementray and middle school performance lead to high school class placement and as you said, those grades will determine college elegibility. What really frusterates me is that as a 12 year old, it might be "uncool" to do well in acadamically. Even in high school, as a 15, 16, 17 year old, all students are making decisions that will shape their future and the tragedy is that many do not understand this.
Pigeon holed from elementary school. The American dream is only that, a dream. It rarely works out as most will live and die in the situation they were born into, despite hard work and drive.
My best advice, create your own education. Don't allow society to tell you what education is. There are many ways to learn without the barriers of a classroom. Many ways to succeed without a college degree.
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Re: Youth In The World.
November 11, 2006 - 01:23 AM
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The reason that youths are placed in such spotlight when they enter a room of discussion is because they are not expected to be able to participate at their currently level of development. Like what was said in the later post, you have to make your own education.
When the spotlight is on you, take that opportunity to prove that you are not afraid of their presence and they should value yours. There are always going to be contraints of society - society is just as synthetic and imperfect of an idea as any other. If you wish to move out of your constraints you have to be willing to make that push.
I agree that we should have better access to education - and the education we want. Iif you wish to take your place in basic society, you have to play by its rules - but reality is what you make it. If you wish to become a lawyer of judge then make that effort to teach yourself about that world. Within society, [that] is a very important job to have so it is only right that you meet the criteria of what a judge or lawyer must be able to achieve.
If you are given the chance to succeed, the take that challenge and prove that you can and you will be rewarded. If you feel you were rejected, perhaps you just weren't ready yet to step into that light. That doesn't mean give up.
Growing up and moving into a new social group can be very frustraiting. Sometimes the best route is not the easiest either. Look at what you really value in life and then try to find that in different places. I am currently in the process of dropping out of university in my second year. I came to realize that there are many different ways to come to an ending. I am by no way disappointed in my situation, especially after I realized how much I grew along the way.
What I hope you get from all this is, try not to get so frustraited by these invisible walls that seem to close us into partitions. They are just an idea like any other and can thus be reimagined if you apply the right integrity to the situation.
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