Re: fuel-air explosives and the next highschool "event"

[Lois Breur Krause <krause@CLEMSON.EDU>]

> Bring baggage with them?   Me, I was fine as long as I WASN'T in school.
> The school environment and its promotion of competition and its toleration
> for hatred was the problem, not the students' baggage.

And therein lies the source of my wish.

My experience was similar, although I withdrew rather than allow myself to
feel anger. I thought it was my fault,  I was to blame,  I wasn't smart
enough or good enough, or socially acceptable for some unknown reason.  I
guess it might be a gender thing.  Girls who are nerds (at least in my
case) become isolated by choice, to avoid the hurts.  Self image suffers,
etc.  Suicidal tendencies abound. Too often one friend, and a pact.

Dr. Lois Breur Krause
Department of Geological Sciences
442 Brackett Hall
Clemson University
Clemson SC  29634

krause@clemson.edu
http://home.earthlink.net/~breurkrause

teaching chemistry, physics, astronomy and geology to elementary education
majors.

How We Learn and Why We Don't: Student Survival Guide,
available from International Thompson Publishing, ISBN 0324-011970
800-355-9983

If I had one wish for our nation,
I would wish for a turn about of what we value in a person.
We value athletic prowess, and not intelligence.
We value physical attractiveness, and not beauty of the soul.
We value cunning and wealth, and not honesty and integrity.
These lessons should be taught to our youth.
Instead our schools demand athletic competition of every student,
and denigrate the scholar.
Failing to reward excellence rewards failure. - Dr. L. Breur Krause