On a mid-December Tuesday several years ago my grandson Jack was riled at something. It may have been something his sister Maddie, my wife Wendy or I said. Or didn’t say. But he was riled and let us know. At two, his usually angelic face was capable of possession-like transformation. He was fuming. Maddie wanted to know why he was acting like that.
This certainly holds with many boys, though it's only part of the puzzle. There is the piece, too, that teachers are largely still women, and those are largely the ones for whom the system worked, and their (I'll say it - OUR) perspective, well-meaning as we may be - is limited.
Yes, when talking about emotions and interpretations of or tolerance for them, not enough of us "go there," and certainly not when discussing student achievement or lack thereof.
Trump has even more going on, I suspect. No matter, of course. I know you meant him as a representative of a group of people who are not getting what they need. Few of us are, honestly. There certainly is a gradient, though, and there is "bad chemistry" out there; combinations of privilege and neglect and access and genetics that seem to coalesce in a way that stands out in one way or another. We should wonder; it's' good for us. We are all responsible to some extent. Best to start talking about this stuff, as long as we also listen.
Trump is no longer president. I find it interesting that so many people are still focusing on Trump while his successor, Joe Biden, for who we were supposed to vote to protect the world from the horrors and evil of Trump, in the last week bombed a host of people in Syria for a bunch of fraudulent reasons and lied repeatedly to a little girl about COVID. Had Trump done either of those things as POTUS, there'd be no other stories in the news for weeks. I understand that people are still shaking off the trauma of having Trump as president, but I'm trying to encourage people to move on and focus on the current administration. There will be no shortage of concerns if we pay attention.
This certainly holds with many boys, though it's only part of the puzzle. There is the piece, too, that teachers are largely still women, and those are largely the ones for whom the system worked, and their (I'll say it - OUR) perspective, well-meaning as we may be - is limited.
Yes, when talking about emotions and interpretations of or tolerance for them, not enough of us "go there," and certainly not when discussing student achievement or lack thereof.
Trump has even more going on, I suspect. No matter, of course. I know you meant him as a representative of a group of people who are not getting what they need. Few of us are, honestly. There certainly is a gradient, though, and there is "bad chemistry" out there; combinations of privilege and neglect and access and genetics that seem to coalesce in a way that stands out in one way or another. We should wonder; it's' good for us. We are all responsible to some extent. Best to start talking about this stuff, as long as we also listen.
Trump is no longer president. I find it interesting that so many people are still focusing on Trump while his successor, Joe Biden, for who we were supposed to vote to protect the world from the horrors and evil of Trump, in the last week bombed a host of people in Syria for a bunch of fraudulent reasons and lied repeatedly to a little girl about COVID. Had Trump done either of those things as POTUS, there'd be no other stories in the news for weeks. I understand that people are still shaking off the trauma of having Trump as president, but I'm trying to encourage people to move on and focus on the current administration. There will be no shortage of concerns if we pay attention.
Read Mary Trumps' book. She explains her uncles behaviors quite well. His behaviors were cultivated.