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There was a "close" call for Lebanon High School a couple of months ago. Before this occurred, a girl had posted a video of how her days at the high school were. She mentioned being stressed and the whole school being depressed. I think the adults of this town should step up. Not just the adults, but the school faculties!!! If there are students that express their feelings of struggle due to the environment-- resulting in a student bringing a gun to school grounds, DO SOMETHING about it!
ALL Lebanon school faculty needs to change up the vibe of their school environment. Linn-Benton Community College has staff that don't seem to care about their students either! If students come to you and seek for help, faculty should do their JOB! Its not about gun policies! Its about BEING NICE!!! HAVING COMMON COURTESY!!! I am calling out to Lebanon High School and Linn-Benton Community College faculty!! Please focus on the students and CARE for them. Don't let this job of yours become your daily routine of dreary menial work!!! You have the opportunity to inspire every pupil you meet. Each interaction will contribute to either good decisions or bad decisions that they'll make. Linn-Benton Community College, Please FIX yourself!!!
Advisers, instructors, even receptionist. step up your game. You have the power to inspire or destroy. What are YOU going to do today?
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ReplyStudents, step up YOUR game. You have the power to control your own outcomes. YOU have the ability to treat each other with decency, YOU have the ability to request assistance in learning to manage your mental health symptoms, YOU have the responsibility to control your own destiny. Life will not be gifted to you! Don't let this life of yours become menial and dreary! Step up and FIX YOURSELF. And at the Community College level? We are talking about a population of ADULT students - so STEP THE HELL UP and START ADULTING!
Reply^^agree
Replyyou're quite incorrect if you believe issues related to mental health and emotional functioning belong to professors and teachers to resolve. no. those issues belong to students and parents to resolve.
ReplyOregon is a beautiful place, but it is quite depressing. I say move out of that town?
People are mean
ReplyThe job of an educator is to educate. not to hand-hold, not to "be nice", and not to monitor mental health (which they are not qualified to do) The job of a receptionist is to greet visitors, answer phones, etc. and not to monitor mental health (which they are not qualified to do). The job of advisers is to assist students in making decisions related to academic courses and college application and not to monitor mental health (which they are not qualified to do). Stop playing pass-the-buck and the blame game. The absurd increase in school shootings is reflective of a generation choosing to believe they are entitled to anything they want and not capable of regulating their own emotions when they find out that is not the way life works.
ReplySo you're waiting for someone else to inspire you. Giving someone else the power to destroy you. Blaming others for your decision-making. Not taking responsibility for the vibe of your environment. Not taking ownership to step up and care for yourself and those around you.
ReplySome girl claiming the "whole school" was depressed is just nonsense. What she should have said, if she wanted any credibility at all, is that SHE was stressed and that SHE felt depressed. She is qualified to speak on her own experience only.
ReplySo true
ReplySeriously, I wrote this hoping other adults would see this and learn how to help me inspire the youth. Our environment sucks. I can't do this alone. There's too many suicides and mass shootings. This all stems from unresolved pain/struggle. If we are going to be working with students, why not take some time to learn what "abnormal" behavior is? Its is just so we can be more safe! My husband is a professor at Western Oregon Uni as well. I know this area pretty well. People seem to have forgotten that human interaction is an effective coping mechanism. Do your job and be nice! I have had a student report that a faculty member told him he should "just give up and become a dishwasher. " BTW, that girl, Emily Gipson, she wrote that poem after a girl had committed suicide at the high school. I just hope that all of you that blamed the students for being depressed or committing suicide don't ever have to face a loved one committing suicide.
Just be nice.
ReplyEveryone is responsible for their own choices. Stop attempting to blame others.
ReplyIf your kid committed suicide, would you have the same response?
ReplyABSOLUTELY
ReplyPeople won't understand until it happens to them.
Replyassumptions are known for, well, making an .... yeah - if you don't know, look it up.
ReplyKeep doing what you're doing. Things like this takes time. I remember Virginia Tech like it was yesterday.
ReplyThe first response, now under review for some inane reason, was 100% correct.
Replythe first response was actually not only correct in general, but also made some very good and insightful points about what is occurring in society today. kind of stupid when people delete dissenting opinions. it wasn't unfriendly - it merely copied the writing style (as obnoxious as I think that writing style is) of the OP, and stated its case - one which really illustrated what we're watching happen in educational settings today and also stated very matter-of-factly what is needed if we want to see improvement.
ReplyIf you hate it there, leave. But, as others have stated correctly, stop trying to place the blame.
ReplySo if a student comes up to you and says some along the lines of "hey, I've hit rock bottom." Are we supposed to tell them to shut it, take responsibility, and blame yourself?
Oh wait, that is happening, and look where we're at. School shootings, drug use, sexual assaults--you name it.
The message is to change the environment by being nicer. I agree.
ReplySchool shootings, drug use, and sexual assault. None of those things are new only more prevalent as parents parent less and as children as provided with less tools with which to approach life. Do you want the environment to be nicer? Start teaching young males that they are not entitled to have whatever female they want and that violence in response to rejection is unacceptable. Do you want the environment to be nicer? Start teaching teenagers what the word no means, how to accept the word no, and what to do after they are told no. Do you want the environment to be nicer? Start teaching common courtesy, manners, respect, and acceptance of people not like yourself. These teachings are the job of the home and family. They are the job of the parent.
ReplyFunny... this IS what I do. So what's your solution to the growing issues? To go out and teach the parents to parent better? How about we start by being nice to each other.
ReplyWell I for one sure as h*** don't want lay person's thinking that they are able to identify "abnormal behavior" That's absurd to ask people to do things outside their area of expertise. And no, the general message of all of this nonsense isn't "make the world better place", not when the original poster is demanding that others "do their jobs" while blaming their failure to do "their jobs" for the maladaptative acting out behaviors of others. And make no mistake, what is being demanded is not the job of the educators.
ReplySeriously, you wrote this wanting agreement. Guess what? It appears that others don't agree. Stop disrespecting the views of others, actually READ what others are saying, and find understanding. Look for common ground. Those things that you claimed you do? DO THEM. And do them while being open to what others are saying - because the environment you claim to "hate" is filled with people who can't tolerate opposing viewpoints, are argumentative when someone states a differing opinion, are intolerant of other views, are accusatory when things go wrong, and don't accept responsibility for themselves - which is what you are doing right here on this very post. The environment you claim to "hate" does precisely what you are doing here today.
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ReplyAre you kidding me? Jesus Christ
ReplyBalkanization
ReplySometimes, there are things that we just can't control.
ReplyTrue.
and that doesn't mean to complain about and blame others.
ReplyThen just complain about complaining.
ReplyWell, what are YOU going to do today?
ReplyIf it is that bad, why don't you forward it to the faculty!?
ReplyWhat's wrong with this?
ReplyYou sound liberal. Let bygones be gone. Who cares?
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