Choose your hard?

I think this is an essential lesson to learn AND share with your students. All students. The privileged need to hear it as much as the underprivileged do.

In this regard, the American dream is false. Everyone cannot “pull themselves up by their bootstraps” without having either a strong self-motivation or a strong support system. With either or both of those things, it is still difficult.

America isn’t for the brave and intrepid anymore, it’s all about greed, selfishness, and making money the quickest way possible. I hope we can change this, but it will take an overhaul of the education system AND the average parents’ parenting “style.”