The typical middle school student
(at the present time), emotional, unsure (of themself and their path in life),
little to no self-courage, immature, cocky, rebellious, and full of the thought
that they know everything. Picture this a punk looking kid with faded jeans,
and a red hoodie under a black jacket that looks like fake leather. The long
black hair that has a neon color stripe on the right bang, with a choking chemical
cloud of spray-on axe deodorant. A nose ring on his left nostril underneath
eyes filled with emotional hatred and sadness in opposite pupils. While placing
a stink bomb under the teacher’s rolling chair filled with yin over whelming
the yang, chaos over peace, bad over good. This is the typical middle school
student with no common sense, completely forgetting the there is a choice
between good and bad when having to think about using drugs, hurting friends,
disrespecting elders. In my research I found that an interesting percent of
middle school students who refuse to use common sense, use common sense and
have little to no common sense.
When you look at a middle school
student you see a very similar stereotype as seen in the documentary/movie
“chalk”. We see the things they do that can make someone flinch because of how
bad it sounds, feels, looks, and sometimes smell. Just think of how much it
would help if we were to reeducate them or educate them about common
sense/knowledge through a class. Indefinitely we see in more scenarios middle
school students choosing bad choices making horrible decisions when the
right/good choice is almost hitting them in the head saying “This is your
conscious here……… LISTEN TO ME YOU STUBORN HUMAN!” they obviously need a
refresher on how to be a better more sophisticated, stand up person. Think
about how the society in schools and the community would change if one age
group did a better job at being the better at decision making.
We see
the middle school age group making the worst decisions above any other age
group. Some may believe that the best mistakes that can be learned from come
from experience. But do they have to learn from experience when a good
classroom lesson could suffice. Many people would just say that it’s just the
kids being young and immature, sure some of them are but there has to be a line
that should not be crossed for example using drugs the choice to use or not
use. The easy choices which would make the world better in many ways. Bell
hooks talks about “Critical thinking” and how critical thinking is a crucial to
the development of thinking for one’s self. Even adults can seem like they have no common knowledge
of anything that is why we should start at a young age and teach the children
so they don’t become some drunken jobless junkie’s.
We see it every day, younger and younger kids having
jail time for breaking the law which were set up for people much older than
them. Now we sort of expect things like
that to happen more often and more frequently because of the kids learning from
their experiences or we blame it on are schools for not teaching them the right
things. It doesn’t seem right for a kid to go to jail to learn from experience
or get seriously injured because they tried to attempt a stupid stunt of
sort for example the video “black in
black” touch up on that by saying that the united states is the leading in confidence.
Reasoning to the bad choices may be the ignorance of the kids them not actually
truly knowing the difference between bad and good which is not as strange as it
sounds. Many parents teach their kids what they believe is right that might be
completely the opposite so why not reteaching them in school so that we know at
lest they know.
How do
we help these kids? I believe by adding a class involving the teaching of
common sense/ common knowledge will help kids understand what they’re doing is
wrong and why what they’re doing is wrong. The class won’t even have to be very
hard it just has to be enough to teach the basic knowledge of good and bad, and
right from wrong. They could even go over the actual father of common knowledge
Aristotle. Aristotle has many great examples which the classes could be based
upon and used in the lessons to also give a small history lesson of sorts. The
class wouldn’t just be in the age group of the middle school though. If it were
to work then it would be beneficial to even go all the way through school K-12
common sense/knowledge class.
In the
end we need to educate are children to be better, to do better, and to think
better. To show them right from wrong, and to make choices which will benefit them
in the future to come for their long path ways in life.so why don’t we make
this class a reality and protect the future by first protecting the paths of
the children who will be running the world in the next couple of decades. Common
sense does not only benefit the children remember if someone knows better they
will most likely show others how to better as well. One kind deed seen by many
can have an effect which can start a chain of events that in the end would result
in whole different world.
