'Some people are so stupid...'

Yes. They are.

But you know what, it's not those whom society has labelled The Chavs, but those who feel so superior to them, who have no idea what their lives have been like, what paths have led them to be so angry, so disconnected from society, at such a young age.

I too, along with so many others get exasperated by bad behaviour, rude attitudes and total disregard for others, but I also understand the reasons behind it, and no matter how exasperated I feel about 'chavvy' behaviour I feel FAR more exasperated with so many others, who seemingly regard themselves as socially, educationally and emotionally superior to those whom they regard as lower than scum.

Jamie Oliver is one man who's trying to make people see all the Lost Jewels that school is spitting out of The System, who may well end up with criminal records, drugs, alcohol or worse, as their horizons. His 'Dream School' programme took some of the most damaged Jewels, trying to turn that love of learning back on again. The link to the final episode of it is below.

What came across was how the 'celebrity' teachers he chose to teach them knew so little about the lives of these young people. What also came across was the quick minds, the intelligence and the terrible hurt, pain and anger that this group of children have inside them.
Eventually, the teachers and the kids met somewhere in the middle, each side respecting the other, finally learning to understand the other's point of view. The youngsters had a great deal to teach the teachers.

Yes, the kids drove those teachers almost to the point of breakdown at times, but Jamie refused to let folks give up. He'd been those children you see....he'd been 'the chav', as some would call him here...but he was lucky, he came from a loving family and so, despite his ADHD, his severe dyslexia, his being told what a failure he'd be, at school, his family continued to believe in him. His father taught him how to run a restaurant, how to cook, how to be disciplined and work hard...and the rest, as they say, is history.

The headmaster during this programme was also, once upon a time, that problem child, so used to being told he'd never make anything of his life, that he'd come to believe it and *became* the child he felt his teachers saw. And then one day ONE teacher turned his life around by **BELIEVING** in him..and from that moment on, ALL he wanted to be was a teacher himself, to turn the lives of others around in exactly the same way. At times, even he was driven to tears with all that surrounded him, but he and Jamie between them, got nearly all those youngsters through to a better place, a far better place...

He ends this series saying that the one thing he's learnt from this is that everyone has got something to offer, and there HAS to be something so wrong with a system that is spitting out so many children with 'FAILURE' stamped inside their heads...

Of course it is not all the fault of schools, because so often terrible damage is already in place inside the souls of so many young children before they even start school. Unwanted, unloved, they learn early on to grab what attention they can by acting up, being a nuisance..Their anger takes root in tiny minds, distorting them so much.

ALL they long to be is loved. Is that too much for anyone to ask?

Richard speaks above of both sexes being allowed to act the same, but I disagree with that a great deal.

The Death of Motherhood has caused so much damage in our children. The Death of Femininity has added to that. Girls are encouraged to behave like lager louts, when the lager louts themselves are also so often broken people. Why would any society not help those who are broken? Why would they encourage their women to behave just like them? Men and women are different, for different reasons. We seem to want to breed gentleness out of women these days, and I truly don't understand that.

Children need parents, mothers AND fathers. If you don't have a loving home, no matter who raises you, then life starts off so very harsh and hard.

So if all The Lost Boys & Girls have ganged together in Neverland UK, becoming their own tribe with their own rules, their own dress code and language, is it really that surprising? They have become their own extended family, because there is no-one else there for them, more often than not.

What is so surprising is there are now several generations of Lost Boys & Girls, whole families of Peter Pan kids, who don't know what it's like to be loved, who therefore cannot love anyone else, let alone themselves....and all society wants to do is to continue to spit on them even more, rather than find the solutions or face up to the fact that something is so very, very wrong within that society.

Here is Jamie's programme:

Jamie's Dream School - Final Episode (available for the next 28 days)


Jamie knows something is going so so wrong at school.