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A Lost Child

Rony Joseph

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Description:Watching events unfold at Virginia Tech during the April 16, 2007 shooting that left 32 dead and 17 injured, I was left with a deep need to understand the cracks in the foundation of today’s youth that could lead to such a horrific outcome. In the decade that has passed since that horrible day, the number of mass shootings and other violent acts carried out by the generations who are standing on the brink of adulthood has only made me surer of the fact that something has gone wrong in their upbringing. While fingers can be pointed in any number of directions, I don’t believe it rests neatly on any one set of shoulders. I also believe that simply pointing out causes does nothing to solve the problem. Sure you can say that parents, or teachers, or peers, or the media, or the government is the source of the underlying issues. You can back up each of these accusations with enough evidence to condemn any one group all on its own. The problem is that it is not just one group. It is all of them and more. Placing blame on one group only encourages more squabbling over the problem and more distraction from the solution. Meanwhile, our children and young adults keep taking a back seat as their inability to deal with the challenges of life in healthy ways grows.By training, I am a Plant Engineer and an Audio Engineer. By trade, I currently work as a chauffeur for a company where my primary job is to carry students to and from school each day. We all do what we have to in order to pay off the student loans incurred in pursuit of the future we hope will manifest.I could be upset about the huge divide between my education and the job I work. Maybe I should be. But I believe I am in this position for a reason. My job lets me observe the product of today’s accepted methods of child-rearing in a very up close and personal way. It has been enlightening although not heartwarming nor filled with hope.Many of this generation’s children have lost the light that guides their path into adulthood. Once, the goal of parents, teachers, communities, and nations was to build strong and capable adults from the children born into their fold. Now those children are almost an afterthought that is nearly lost in the strange muddle of today’s American society.Looked at from an engineering vantage point, these children are not being given a solid blueprint that will lead them into productive and happy adult lives. They are also not being given a solid foundation on which to build themselves nor the tools and guidance to create their own futures. It is as if the most vital infrastructure of our civilization has been told to “wing it” as far as form and functionality go. If they were a machine, it is safe to say their gears do not mesh and their wires are crossed. If compared to a piece of music no one would ever want to listen to the noise that they create for lack of harmony and rhythm. Ignorance of the problems being hardwired and programmed into them along with a lack of motivation to cure their own ills leaves these young people with very little hope of finding their own solution. They are living their perceived normal no matter how little sense it makes to anyone outside of their current viewpoint.In a generation that has known since birth that smoking leads to cancer, I drop off fifteen-year-old who need to have a cigarette before they go into the school building. In a world where HIV/AIDS has existed and been named since before their births, I drop off girls who haven’t finished high school even though they are expecting babies of their own after having unprotected sex. For each and every child in this world craving an education and unable to receive one, I let a child out at the vehicle at their school who has no desire to learn. During a drug epidemic that can more aptly be labeled a global pandemic, I hear the kids I drive talk about their own experiences in chemical escape.I see parents who are too busy trying to keep a roof over their family’s heads and food on the table to notice that their child is struggling. If they see it, they are often powerless to help. I see parents who could not care less for the human that they are responsible for giving life. Those parents at best see the child they created as a means to an end as far as collecting a check and at worst as the individual to punish for their own unhappiness.At the schools are teachers who may have gone into the profession with the best of intentions only to find themselves mostly in charge of crowd control for the multitude of young minds who have no desire to be there and far too much inclination to disrupt any learning they might benefit from. There are also teachers who have been worn down by the system and are now enfolded in a numbness that allows them to be blind to the ever-increasing problems within the student body.Government at all levels claims that they understand the dire need to solve the problems leading to the creation of young...We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with A Lost Child. To get started finding A Lost Child, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: Watching events unfold at Virginia Tech during the April 16, 2007 shooting that left 32 dead and 17 injured, I was left with a deep need to understand the cracks in the foundation of today’s youth that could lead to such a horrific outcome. In the decade that has passed since that horrible day, the number of mass shootings and other violent acts carried out by the generations who are standing on the brink of adulthood has only made me surer of the fact that something has gone wrong in their upbringing. While fingers can be pointed in any number of directions, I don’t believe it rests neatly on any one set of shoulders. I also believe that simply pointing out causes does nothing to solve the problem. Sure you can say that parents, or teachers, or peers, or the media, or the government is the source of the underlying issues. You can back up each of these accusations with enough evidence to condemn any one group all on its own. The problem is that it is not just one group. It is all of them and more. Placing blame on one group only encourages more squabbling over the problem and more distraction from the solution. Meanwhile, our children and young adults keep taking a back seat as their inability to deal with the challenges of life in healthy ways grows.By training, I am a Plant Engineer and an Audio Engineer. By trade, I currently work as a chauffeur for a company where my primary job is to carry students to and from school each day. We all do what we have to in order to pay off the student loans incurred in pursuit of the future we hope will manifest.I could be upset about the huge divide between my education and the job I work. Maybe I should be. But I believe I am in this position for a reason. My job lets me observe the product of today’s accepted methods of child-rearing in a very up close and personal way. It has been enlightening although not heartwarming nor filled with hope.Many of this generation’s children have lost the light that guides their path into adulthood. Once, the goal of parents, teachers, communities, and nations was to build strong and capable adults from the children born into their fold. Now those children are almost an afterthought that is nearly lost in the strange muddle of today’s American society.Looked at from an engineering vantage point, these children are not being given a solid blueprint that will lead them into productive and happy adult lives. They are also not being given a solid foundation on which to build themselves nor the tools and guidance to create their own futures. It is as if the most vital infrastructure of our civilization has been told to “wing it” as far as form and functionality go. If they were a machine, it is safe to say their gears do not mesh and their wires are crossed. If compared to a piece of music no one would ever want to listen to the noise that they create for lack of harmony and rhythm. Ignorance of the problems being hardwired and programmed into them along with a lack of motivation to cure their own ills leaves these young people with very little hope of finding their own solution. They are living their perceived normal no matter how little sense it makes to anyone outside of their current viewpoint.In a generation that has known since birth that smoking leads to cancer, I drop off fifteen-year-old who need to have a cigarette before they go into the school building. In a world where HIV/AIDS has existed and been named since before their births, I drop off girls who haven’t finished high school even though they are expecting babies of their own after having unprotected sex. For each and every child in this world craving an education and unable to receive one, I let a child out at the vehicle at their school who has no desire to learn. During a drug epidemic that can more aptly be labeled a global pandemic, I hear the kids I drive talk about their own experiences in chemical escape.I see parents who are too busy trying to keep a roof over their family’s heads and food on the table to notice that their child is struggling. If they see it, they are often powerless to help. I see parents who could not care less for the human that they are responsible for giving life. Those parents at best see the child they created as a means to an end as far as collecting a check and at worst as the individual to punish for their own unhappiness.At the schools are teachers who may have gone into the profession with the best of intentions only to find themselves mostly in charge of crowd control for the multitude of young minds who have no desire to be there and far too much inclination to disrupt any learning they might benefit from. There are also teachers who have been worn down by the system and are now enfolded in a numbness that allows them to be blind to the ever-increasing problems within the student body.Government at all levels claims that they understand the dire need to solve the problems leading to the creation of young...We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with A Lost Child. To get started finding A Lost Child, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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