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Friday, July 25, 2025

And now for some good news

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We are con­stant­ly bom­bard­ed with im­ages of teenagers in­volved in deeply trou­bling be­hav­iour. They are ei­ther ex­plor­ing their sex­u­al­i­ty on cam­era, or wag­ing vi­o­lent af­ter school wars in the streets or even the class­rooms.There are so many of these videos it is easy to be­lieve that sex and gen­er­al may­hem are the pri­ma­ry oc­cu­pa­tions of our teen pop­u­la­tion.

This is of course not true, but these are the videos which, if shared enough, gar­ner the at­ten­tion of na­tion­al news cov­er­age and be­come the fo­cal point of cit­i­zens' un­leashed ire mixed in with per­verse voyeurism.There is no coun­ter­bal­ance to the pre­vail­ing con­tent; noth­ing to match the fu­ri­ous pace of up­loaded win­dows in­to the world of our de­gen­er­ate youth ca­vort­ing in their rud­der­less ex­is­tences.

It can't be for lack of pos­i­tive strides be­ing made in schools and homes across the coun­try every day. A lack of in­ter­est is more like­ly the case.I re­ceived an e-mail from a teacher at the Brazil Sec­ondary School out­lin­ing the work of their Globe en­vi­ron­men­tal club. The e-mail of­fered a Face­book page as cred­i­ble ev­i­dence of young peo­ple do­ing pos­i­tive things. The page chron­i­cles the Globe­clubs' ini­tia­tive, in par­tic­u­lar the work of our sec­ondary school stu­dents in se­ri­ous en­vi­ron­men­tal sci­en­tif­ic in­quiry.

http://www.guardian.co.tt/dig­i­tal/new-mem­bers


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