{"id":23,"date":"2007-09-06T13:46:16","date_gmt":"2007-09-06T17:46:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/mistert\/2007\/09\/06\/a-lot-of-smart-teens-can-be-pretty-dumb\/"},"modified":"2007-09-06T13:46:16","modified_gmt":"2007-09-06T17:46:16","slug":"a-lot-of-smart-teens-can-be-pretty-dumb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/mistert\/2007\/09\/06\/a-lot-of-smart-teens-can-be-pretty-dumb\/","title":{"rendered":"A Lot of Smart Teens Can Be Pretty Dumb"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>OK I like teenagers. The years I spent teaching teens at BG are some of the best in my life. And I met a lot of really smart teens there. But even the smartest of them can be pretty dumb some times. I found <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boston.com\/news\/local\/articles\/2007\/09\/06\/untimely_yell_leads_to_drug_charges\/\">this interesting example<\/a> of some students from Northeastern. They are freshmen so I assume they are teens still. Actually they were freshmen and they were students at Northeastern. They don&#8217;t go there anymore.<\/p>\n<p>Long story short &#8211; a student hangs out his dorm room window yelling to a passerby that his roommate has weed for sale. A passing police officer overhears this and checks it out. Police find drugs, alchohol, money and drug related objects. Students go off to jail and the university decides that there are other students out there who can fill that dorm room and related classrooms.<\/p>\n<p>What I have noticed is that a lot of high school and college students seem to think they are invisible. By that I mean they think they can do what ever they want and no one in position to punish them for wrong doing will see them. If they are caught they often blame the authority figures for violating their privacy. Apparently in their eyes adults are supposed to turn a blind eye to their activities.<\/p>\n<p>Why is this I wonder? Is it just a matter of students being poor judges of risk or do schools somehow inadvertantly teach this attitude? Do schools let too much slide in high school? Or is it the kids fault? Hard to say but it makes interesting viewing as an outside observer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OK I like teenagers. The years I spent teaching teens at BG are some of the best in my life. And I met a lot of really smart teens there. But even the smartest of them can be pretty dumb some times. I found this interesting example of some students from Northeastern. They are freshmen [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life-thoughts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/mistert\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/mistert\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/mistert\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/mistert\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/mistert\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/mistert\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/mistert\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/mistert\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/mistert\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}