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Originally Posted by Lady of Pearl
Sadly, education is not valued among our youth as it was stressed to me when I was growing up. Students need to see role models other than entertainers or athletes. I had a discussion regarding this earlier with one of my colleagues about his son who wants to hang on the block with his peers playing basketball. His father is trying to stress the importance of getting an education rather than playing basketball. A lot of those young men will not even make it into the NBA. From his own personal experience - the father played ball in college but got a degree in engineering as well, a lot of his peers later reflected that they wished they had gotten an education like he did so that they would have increased their life chances.
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This is the very reason why we, as parents and guardians, need to monitor our children's friends.
When we moved to our current neighborhood, I asked my son did he know the other kids in our complex that rode the school bus with him. He knew some but did not really hang out, esp with the ones down the block. When I asked him why, he said that they thought reading was dumb; needless to say, I dropped the subject. He is so mature at age 12!
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