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2/23/2012 9:20:05 AM EST
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Back to School
retirees, over 50, working women, Philippinos
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Well my experience wasn't exactly Rodney Dangerfields in Back to School, but nonetheless, it was an experience to remember.
Since I was married at a very young age and worked in the in-laws family business immediately afterward, I thought that my life was laid out for me! It definately proves that youth is wasted on the young! The marriage after 20 yrs. didn't work and neither did the family business.
I entered a different job field and the result was getting a great deal of beverage industry experience from that job. I even obtained a Class A CDL just because the teaching and training was available to me at no charge, so I achieved that as well.
After a time I decided to do a complete 180 - health care. I sent my happy self back to school..I decided to take a Certified Nursing Assistant course. It was interesting and I couldn't have asked for a better teacher, an RN and the best part she was from the Philippines. What a disciplined, dynamic, interesting teacher she was! I adored her, and the younger students in the class were extremely disrespectful to her. I spent my entire youth in Catholic schools where you learned respect and this was something I had never experienced before. I was shocked and dismayed to see these young women texting in class, falling asleep, one 20 yr. old sucking her thumb! I had come to find out that they were attending class free from the state with a job source program. They were there because they were told to take the course as a training to get a job and it was free,,,everything was free their books, uniform and the course.
I truly believe that because it was free they could have cared less. The teacher did not tolerate that behaviour from them, many flunked out and I learned a valuable lesson!
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 | | Great story Patricia! Congratulations on going back to school and all your achievments. So many kids appreciate nothing these day because everything is handed to them. They had a chance for free education to better themselves and sitll didn't realize the value of it ~ very sad... Thanks for sharing! |
| | |  | | Excellent post Patricia. I could actually relate to the family business but mine was my immediate family. Family and business just don't work. Time to share! |
| | |  | | A really great article Patricia, and thanks for sharing your personal story. I've seen what you have described many times in my life also, In the housing industry, people that had nothing in a free government house had no respect for it , not all, but way too many. T&L |
| | |  | | The youth have lost the drive!! You need to really I mean really want something in life then go after it. I would have killed for a free education in my youth to help me in achieving my goals! |
| | |  | | Thank you, beautifully said Harold! |
| | |  | | Patricia,
I have to agree with you on the state of affairs, and the mentalities of free education. This is a truism! It is up to us as FREE PEOPLE to create change, and inspire these lack luster youngins' to wake up to reality. We have State Education systems that do not Educate properly because they are manipulated by Government stupidity.This comment is not generated to create negativity, but to bring to awareness the truth.
Good article Patricia! |
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