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Updated: 3:58 AM Nov 26, 2009
Survey: Washoe County Students Having More Sex; Doing More Drugs
Local high school students are having more sex, doing more drugs, and more often thinking about killing themselves.
Posted: 9:05 PM Nov 25, 2009Reporter: Auburn Hutton Email Address: auburn.hutton@kolotv.com |
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I just got home after a great night, bringing in $3500 for the evening after taxes! LOL!!! Got to get up early and finish my math homework and my paper for English cause I just don't have it in me to attack 'em now. But i certainly don't think about doing myself in when i'm gorgeous and men dump their dough into my delicate hands and go nuts over my double Ds. I get 'em to blow their stones in a few minutes and scream like I was into it. They all would just die to do me twice. Goodnight Reno. Thanks for the dough. I feel the love. I'll get my homework done before class probably. It's ok not to, but i like to keep my grades up so grandma doesn't think I'm out doing dudes for fun and prizes.
I dropped out because there is no reason for me stay in school. I wasn't learning much and my mom needed money so I got a job cutting grass last spring. Now I work at a restaurant bussing dishes and closing up. I get minimum wage and some tip money plus some great food. I really like working in the real world because of the nice people I get to be around. They're honest, work hard, put up with lots of crap with a smile and have taught me more than my teachers about what's important. Being on time and doing what's needed counts more than whether you remember who was president after Coolidge. School is overbaked for the college kids. Making 'em all pass the Proficiencies in all those subjects says to me that what I got is not valuable. I'm a rapper of the different drummer type. Where is the Proficiency Exam to measure Rap? My best class was ceramics. See how unimportant I am? I'm good at what I do, but bad in school. If you don't fit, and ya know it, what're ya gonna do? Waste more time?
I don't like school anymore either. my friends all turned me in for doing something. Then the school told my grandma and sent me home. Sucks to get caught and blamed for doing what everybody else does all the time and gets away with and i'm nailed for it. All i ever wanted was a friend. Somebody to talk to about how things are that won't lie to me or try and make fun of how dumb i am. I'd make a good friend cause i know how lonely it can be when you're the dumb ugly bitch that nobody could ever stand to have around.
More than any news I've ever read about my home, this chunk of reality hits home in my house. Our kids are up against insurmountable odds, and nobody seems to care. The dad and I both have to work at miserable and abusive societal games that truly do NOT better the human situation, but rather, add to the problems. Our poor kids have no one to turn to but bad kids who drink, smoke tobacco and weed and get pills of a rich and various spectrum of physical and mental consequence. Our poor schools do what they can; each teacher faces a gauntlet of a hundred fifty plus kids with whom they get a minute or two each day. What kind of results can we honestly expect when the sleezy babes in high school are making bank at recess and lunch doing junior and senior boys? Nobody around here goes off to college to further their educations. Why? Kids don't work like we had to. Kids don't even go outside anymore. They huddle around electronic games just like little toy adult gamers at the casino.
The report is even worse than you think! Twice as many sophomores as juniors participated in the polling. So once the juniors weigh in, expect your jaw to drop a bit more. This suicide thing kinda got me. Kings and queens in days gone by had no Walmarts, malls, Ipods, cars, TV, freeways or passports. They had no public education, clean air, water and legal system. And our kids are so down with their loot, their cultural largess, their Trick-or-treat bags so laden with stimulation that they choose death. What is wrong with this picture my friends? How could we have so misguided ourselves that our toys define our destiny? (Our cultural values reflected in our conversation, studies, and entertainment dictate our direction as a culture.) Here in Washoe County, we are the cheap little sister of the flamboyant hostess of whoredom for the planet. I think our sleezy coquette standards and lack of buy-in by tax-payers is at the root of the problem. Pay more; get more. Stand up for tomorrow.
Look at where we are! In our culture, prostitution legal swindling, and massive intoxication are splattered on these kids' billboards as we drive them through the wasteland devoid of integrity, decency and self-worth through development and contribution. Art has taken a back seat to dancing hookers parading down main street hunching at other drivers and waving their weapons of mass distraction for profit, fun and diversion. School is lacking satisfying rigor because of constant distractions for those who have no business there in the first place. They do not know why they need to learn anything so they don't. The future has been taken from their radar for the sake of toys, fun and idleness. Challenge demoralizes them because parents and society in general have taken the path of least resistance and gone soft. Especially in Nevada, walking away from the plate when they ought to be stepping up seems natural. It's a formative assessment; now we need to develop a way out! Soul exercises!
What's really sad about this news is that it's getting worse every day. I suggest we take a gander at this universe from the perspective of those who are learning how to do life its own self. Their leaders lie, cheat and gallavant. Even mom and dad who must love them make up stories sometimes. Like pot. Why do they say it's like heroin? They tried pot, and now they may go the actual addictive thing we tried to steer them away from by lying to them. Most of the kids I've known believe in themselves. When people lie, kids respond with similar levels of integrity to match their perceived requirements. When their buddies say beer is fun and so is sex, what're they gonna do? Trust somebody who lies to them, makes up stories to hide the truth and punishes them for what their buddies 'do all the time?' Our growing problem is in eroding confidence in failing parenting, in the facade of societal deviance replete w/ denial and cover-ups, and in failing schools w/ archaic strategies.
This is truly disturbing! I don't have children in the schools, as mine are grown, but it sounds to me like the kids are having an identity crisis and a crisis of not realizing their self-worth. Are the counselors addressing these issues in the schools? Hopefully, ALL of the parents will address these issues at home. What can we, as individuals and as a community, do to help instill the values of self-worth in these kids? Doing drugs, early sexual behavior, and thoughts of suicide are the symptoms of values which are missing in the lives of today's youth.