I want to get a message to the President that he should address the current high school seniors across America. They had their senior year ruined by this virus. My daughter, for example, had her senior prom cancelled 3 hours before it was supposed to start. We were literally putting the final touches on her makeup when the school's robocall came in that all high school functions were to be cancelled immediately. This included prom, all awards ceremonies, the senior play, the senior trip to Disney World that we had being paying for all year, and now graduation. School just unceremoniously ended. They don't even get to say goodbye to the friends they've been with for years. No one is really talking about them. They feel forgotten and unimportant. And, really, so do the parents. I feel that we were robbed of this milestone, too. This is such an important transition for the whole family.
I was thinking that maybe if the President addressed the high school seniors directly that it could ease some of the sting.
Thanks, pedes!
Precisely. Most high schools spend more funding on football than on anything else. It's idealized in the media because the media needs to sell middle-schoolers TV shows, and the jackasses who worship football had it as the apex point of their life when they mattered but couldn't make it into college football.
I recognized this fact in high school and didn't even bother to get my picture taken for the yearbook. Why elevate a clown show? Why raise something beneath oneself on a pedestal?
Hell, part of compulsory schooling is so children have somewhere to go while women work. Because nobody makes enough to feed a family on a single job anymore.