This week 2 things have seriously bothered me. When things bother me, I feel like I need to state my opinion. I understand that my opinion doesn't really mean anything, but I feel better when it is out there. So, if you don't want to hear/read my opinion you should probably leave this page now because I am not going to hold my feelings back. The two things that have bothered me this week are: 1)It has somehow become 'uncool' to support your local high school sports after you graduate. 2) People dissing Danville because they were 'unprepared' for college.
I played sports my whole life. I suited up in a Danville jersey well over 500 times in my high school career. When you play 3 sports, it is easy to do. In that time, my parents were at almost every game, and my grandparents were running them a pretty good race. Along with my own family and the family of girls I played with, there was always other people from the community there. That makes you feel good. When you look up and there are people there who do not HAVE to be but they choose to be. It makes you feel like people believe in you. Like people care. So, I will gladly repay that favor to as many young people as I can. If that makes me uncool, I could not care less. I got hugs last night for coming to a ballgame that will far outweigh anybody telling me it is uncool. Also, I LOVE my community. I can go to those ballgames and see people I do not see often but hold special places in my heart. Those people are the ones that if something goes wrong, will love on you with food, visits, and most of all prayers. Walking into Smith-Owens Stadium makes me just a little more thankful for my community every time I go.
As for the whole people being 'unprepared' for college. That is YOUR fault. Not Danville's. I will preach this until I die: You get out of your education what you put into it. I went to Danville. My friends went to Danville. Out of my friends these are some of the degrees we have or almost have: Mathematics, Aerospace Engineering, Business Management, Education, Chemistry. That list isn't too shabby, is it? Out of all of those, I do not think I can ever remember them complaining about Danville not preparing them. Yes, college was harder than Danville. It is college, so it should be. Yes, I had to study more. It is college, I should have had to. I got the same grades through most of college that I got in high school. When my grades dropped a bit, it was nobody's fault except my own. I was trying less, so I got less. Most of the people I have heard make these comments are the ones who just did enough in high school to get by. Well guess what...That is your own stinkin' fault. Maybe if you had decided your education was important, you might have some knowledge and skills to help you out now. You know who I feel sorry for, the teachers of high school who have to put up with kids who don't give a rip, want to just squeak by, and then want to get to college and blame the teacher for not equipping them. You cannot force knowledge on someone. They have to work at it. There has to be effort on the student's end. If there is not, the students will not be as successful. So all of these people who want to complain about how ill-equipped they are, they should probably look back over their high school careers and evaluate just how much they tried. I think they will be a lot less disappointed in their school and a lot more disappointed in themselves. Well, they may not be...they may be part of that growing trend of people who want to blame everything on everybody but themselves. BUT, if they were honest, they would see it is their own fault.
I closing, I just want to say thank you Danville. Thank you for a high school that I did learn academics and life lessons from. Thank you for teachers who sincerely cared. Thank you for a high school sports program that I will FOREVER cherish. Thank you for a community that I am so proud to be a part of.
I played sports my whole life. I suited up in a Danville jersey well over 500 times in my high school career. When you play 3 sports, it is easy to do. In that time, my parents were at almost every game, and my grandparents were running them a pretty good race. Along with my own family and the family of girls I played with, there was always other people from the community there. That makes you feel good. When you look up and there are people there who do not HAVE to be but they choose to be. It makes you feel like people believe in you. Like people care. So, I will gladly repay that favor to as many young people as I can. If that makes me uncool, I could not care less. I got hugs last night for coming to a ballgame that will far outweigh anybody telling me it is uncool. Also, I LOVE my community. I can go to those ballgames and see people I do not see often but hold special places in my heart. Those people are the ones that if something goes wrong, will love on you with food, visits, and most of all prayers. Walking into Smith-Owens Stadium makes me just a little more thankful for my community every time I go.
As for the whole people being 'unprepared' for college. That is YOUR fault. Not Danville's. I will preach this until I die: You get out of your education what you put into it. I went to Danville. My friends went to Danville. Out of my friends these are some of the degrees we have or almost have: Mathematics, Aerospace Engineering, Business Management, Education, Chemistry. That list isn't too shabby, is it? Out of all of those, I do not think I can ever remember them complaining about Danville not preparing them. Yes, college was harder than Danville. It is college, so it should be. Yes, I had to study more. It is college, I should have had to. I got the same grades through most of college that I got in high school. When my grades dropped a bit, it was nobody's fault except my own. I was trying less, so I got less. Most of the people I have heard make these comments are the ones who just did enough in high school to get by. Well guess what...That is your own stinkin' fault. Maybe if you had decided your education was important, you might have some knowledge and skills to help you out now. You know who I feel sorry for, the teachers of high school who have to put up with kids who don't give a rip, want to just squeak by, and then want to get to college and blame the teacher for not equipping them. You cannot force knowledge on someone. They have to work at it. There has to be effort on the student's end. If there is not, the students will not be as successful. So all of these people who want to complain about how ill-equipped they are, they should probably look back over their high school careers and evaluate just how much they tried. I think they will be a lot less disappointed in their school and a lot more disappointed in themselves. Well, they may not be...they may be part of that growing trend of people who want to blame everything on everybody but themselves. BUT, if they were honest, they would see it is their own fault.
I closing, I just want to say thank you Danville. Thank you for a high school that I did learn academics and life lessons from. Thank you for teachers who sincerely cared. Thank you for a high school sports program that I will FOREVER cherish. Thank you for a community that I am so proud to be a part of.
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