The question, did his life change trajectory because he thought he failed earlier in life? If he had known he graduated, would he have tried harder? And was the result of his downward spiral, correlated with the presumption he never graduated? And was this systemic?
Personally, Fck that never too late mess, the school destroyed yet another potential. This is proof of the academic negligence that plagues America’s school system. And in a lot US cities, the disdain for child-to-teen transitions forces children to figure out how to become full adults on their own. Between 8-19, a lot of US kids are raising themselves. And adults only care when that negligence is twerking in downtown courtyards.
This developmental abandonment allows educators to leave out a very important part of childhood psychology, economics. Without understanding the need to protect yourself financially, it isn’t just learning but how to apply that information, it also teaches what you don’t want to end up doing as an adult.
Let’s be honest, after elementary school, American kids need to work. Not to work just for money but, to train their young brains on how to become functional adults. A REQUIRED youth work schedule should definitely be used to simply say, you have to find something productive to do with your time, something that add to your mind to be responsible. This is no different than learning how to show up to school on time and other weak trained mechanisms, poorly enforced in school. It’s not even about making a better obedient worker but, learning how to recognize pitfalls and that spirit of follow through that can be applied for self-wealth.
The Demon’ Timing of Social Media Perks
If the mindset of seeing work as something “poor people do,” doesn’t stop, it will continue to create the habit we see in current teen era behavior. That notion of doing White boy shit for clicks and likes, without White boy career protection, won’t have financial implications in the long run. They can decided to demonetize (emphasis on demon) social media antics tomorrow, completely ending the documented rewards that comes with posting, placing many youth in positions that can’t be undone.
Technically they are making money, because these teen takeovers gain followers and revenue streams. But, if there was a stronger involvement for understanding formidable economic development in school, a work requirement would accidentally fix a lot of things that just can’t get resolved with the reading of Plato’s Allegory.
Real talk, there would be no teen takeovers or school chaos if social media use was flagged. Not to ruin their money making antics but, its resulting in people getting hurt, and in a Post Trayvon Martin world, its placing a target on teens that would otherwise be profiled doing basic shit. So, the work requirements, enforced would save more than lives, it would restructure trust with youth stability. Especially for teens that commute to do their dirt in the city and then run back to their safe neighborhoods. As apposed to teens who live in the city, minding their business, now stopped and frisked just trying to enjoy their surroundings.
Learning how to work without destroying the community should be no different than learning how to walk. But economic youth development is ignored. The last successful economic youth movement we had was drug dealing. Sadly this guy’s situation is a lot more common than people think. And it’s usually same race of the student that end up doing the lion share of the sabotaging.
Neglect Probably Started Early
For a lot of families, kids are psychologically abandoned around 11 years old. For some adults they see helping kids as helping their economic competition. The idea is, the adults have to work for THEIR money and see kids as an added expense, basically at a certain age, it’s like forced child support, or turning a 8 year old into a free loading OP. So the idea of making money with many of these type of family dynamics as some sorta Game of Throne level stuff. Families see even the kids as financial OPs so the distrust starts early.
This causes a lot of adults to stop engaging with their own children, with some, after 16 years old being suspicious of self-improvement as some form of control. While others fear making money, turns them in to a target by their own family. And the last scenario has parents feeling like the kids need to pay them back for necessities like pampers and legos.
Cute Until The Checks Come
In some cases it’s been a generational attack with children being somewhat cherished, only to be left figuring out how to practice hygiene, finances, ethics from pop culture or social media. Once the parent narc supply wears off or school accountability distances from the parents, some communities end up prolonging childhood support because beyond money they don’t know what adulthood is either. Where not talking failure to start but, simply knowing how to function as an adult because they never were taught what that entails. There isn’t a real coming of age of what happens when school is over.
And no we’re not talking about the arrested development that secretly occurs within the mind of multiple degree holders/career college culture. We’re talking about putting they asses to work instead of ice cream socials and police threats to correct the mindset.
From that point on, kids are raising themselves and only see parental involvement when sports, crime, or some form of new Narc supply shows value. And right now, monetized social media is feeding that supply.
How 90s Suburban Culture Made It Worse
People really forget how city schools became surrogate parents for a lot of students, who’s parents had childish mindsets themselves. Once suburb culture became the new “Black culture,” the mentality for school was simply somewhere you stayed a child, until comfort was over.
Suburban culture didn’t have a plan on how to support the migration of city kids to suburban life, so a lot people just stayed 9 years old, after 19. With so many kids having to “grow up fast,” suburban life was rest. And Black kids became the neighbor entertainment of class clownery, sex, drugs, and sports. But after they grew up, there was no more “fun” Darnell anymore. Now 30 years in, fun Darnell has no education, and a bad ass son named Jayden in duplicating the same behavior in class (and a money making social media account).
The city schools never changed and suburbia became a playground. That failed growth changed how high-school was managed for kids who were once known as “at risk.” And all of this happened because the transition of child to teen was never fully formulated, or thought out. Special Ed tags got thrown around until they aged out of school, and we ended up with a bunch Europhia off-springs.
For teens with no engagement in high-school, it was was always “just graduate,” with no real training on who to be once the childhood was over. Basically a brain going from child to adulthood. Then it was school and school and maybe college, with no real plan to be employed. And having too much knowledge started be overrated. Because pointless knowledge being power BS is why we have 50-11 podcast on gender wars and hotepian nonsense.
If this guy was required to work in high-school, more than likely he would have been monitored earlier and had a real choice to be a fck up, rather than his young brain thinking he failed before he even got started.