COOL Kids...

I hate the cool kids.

And i never use the word 'hate'.  I never had such dislike before...but they're simply such a waste of perfectly good utility!  If the cool kids KNEW how much power they had and used it towards good vs. well...'nothing'...education would be so much more efficient!

There are two two distinct students in class (amongst groups such as the lethargic students, the poor students...the clowns, etc)...The over-achiever (i don't like the term 'brown-noser'...neither do i like over-achiever as it implies that achievement is pegged against the median effort level of the class)...and the popular kid.

I LOVE the over-achievers.  These kids LISTEN.  Everyone else talks.  They ask questions...the questions that EVERYONE else has but will never ask and just sit there not doing anything until someone somehow tells them what to do...  The over-achievers are not nerds...they have friends...they are outgoing...they are the PERFECT student.  The over-achiever is the FULL-POTENTIAL of MOST kids IF the COOL kids were to get involved....

Here is what I mean...

The cool kids (with their cool hair...relatively cool clothes) also have the 'cool look' on their face.  As in..."here we go...another class...another teacher...what the hell am I going to learn from you?"  They don't listen.  They talk to others.  They use every excuse possible to leave the class.  The PROBLEM with these kids...and what differentiates these kids from simply the 'disobedient' is that these kids have a FOLLOWING.  If they talk...his/her flock also talks.  If they don't listen - the flock does not listen.  Etc. etc.  

Now in the US...I could control these kids with psychology....tactics of embarrassment and/or punctuating that they indeed are not that 'cool'.  (sounds a lot more cruel than it is...)  However...since they speak NO English (and more importantly the other kids speak no english)...it's futile to even attempt to deal with them (as you can straight tell them 'be quiet' etc...you have to appeal to their psychology...which is impossible sans language).  

Anyway...if these kids KNEW (which will never happen en mass...although there will always just be the 'anomalous' cool kid) the power they had over others and used it for good!  If I could re-train a cool-kid to be an over-achiever (which is what my father was...a good looking...very smart and popular over-achiever...or so I hear)...education in schools would be absorbed twice as fast...  efficiency to a place of none...

But I must mention...my theories always lack the realistic factor of life...  Kids are kids.  Societies are under group-think...  Efficiency is not the goal of most...  Some aim to achieve 40% efficiency and that is good....some opt for 100%...  you can't change the underlying...  

Maybe make everyone study economics...?

Surely they'd die of boredom...

I see nothing more useful in this world than a good economic background...

Except perhaps language...and as we all know...I certainly have a new found appreciation for that skill lately...