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Posted - 09 December 2004 :  2:01:01 PM  Show Profile  Click to see Famuk's MSN Messenger address  
This article taken from a Canadian newspaper, mailed to a teacher by her grandmother who lives there, this wonderful teacher shared this little piece of sarcasm and humorous advice with her students. Lucky to be one of them; here's a look at what people think of teenagers:

SAGE ADVICE FOR A GENERATION OF BRATS
Society is fostering young people�s foolish expectations

By Diane Francis

The biggest single problem facing Canada and other wealthy societies is �spoiled bratism� or a culture that has indulged its children. Children are to be cherished and protected and there�s nothing wrong with heaping material benefits on them.
But there�s great harm in heaping attitudes on them, at home and in schools, that set them up for failure and end up subjecting society to their unrealistic, unfair demands.
These are manifested at the political level, but also at the business level.
For instance protestors in Seattle, Quebec City and elsewhere have turned the Multinational Corporation into the bogeyman of their generation.
They have turned the Multinational into a surrogate parent/teacher and are holding each one responsible for life�s injustices, for cleaning up the environment, lifting the world�s six billion people out of poverty, as well as eradicating corruption, dictatorships, greed, misery and cultural inadequacies such as child labour and the wholesale abuse of women.
Such injustices exist and should be addressed. But the blame is totally misplaced by these rich kids from rich societies.
The blame rests with leaders in poor countries, both political and religious, who keep their followers barefoot and pregnant and superstitious. Until these cultures and countries get their acts together there will be nothing but increasing and widespread poverty and pollution on this planet.
The new let�s-protect-globalisation subculture simple manifests the New Ideology of Entitlement, or spoiled bratism.
Billionaire Bill Gates eventually grew up, as did most of us. And I was sent a wonderful list of rules, attributed to Mr Gates, that hits the target when it comes to the wrong-headed attitudes schools have propagated.
The list is allegedly part of a speech given by Mr.Gates at a high school convocation. Regardless of whether or not Mr.Gates authored this, the rules articulately debunk the bratism that plagues public policy and business issues.
It addressed why feel-good, politically correct teachings set up young people for failure in the real world and lead them to completely misunderstand what governments and business should be held accountable for.
Rule#1 Life is not fair. Get used to it.
Rule#2 The world wont care about your self-esteem. The world will expect you to accomplish something before you feel good about yourself.
Rule#3 You will not make
$40,000 a year right out of high school. You won�t be a vice-president with a car phone until you earn it.
Rule#4 If you think your teacher is tough; wait until you get a boss. He doesn�t have tenure.
Rule #5 Flipping burger is not beneath your dignity. Your grandparents had a different word for burger flipping-they called it opportunity.
Rule#6 If you mess up it�s not your parents� fault; so don�t whine about your mistakes. Learn from them.
Rule#7 Before you were born, your parents weren�t as boring as they are now. They got that way from paying your bills, cleaning your clothes and listening to you talk at how cool you are. So, before you save the rainforest from the parasites or your parents� generation, try delousing the closet in your own room.
Rule#8 Your school may have done away with winners and losers, but life has not. In some schools they have abolished failing grades and they�ll have you as many times as you want to get the right answer.
This doesn�t bear the slightest resemblance to anything in real life.
Rule#9 Life is not divided into semesters. You don�t get summers off and very few employers are interested in helping you find yourself. Do that on your own time.
Rule#10 Be nice to nerds. Chances are you�ll end up working for one.






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