BEYOND HONOR STUDENTS

My child is an honor student...and so is yours.

All children are honor students.   Why not? 
All children belong here.  They didn't come here to make trouble,
or cause disturbance, to be mean, to be labeled slow, to onstantly

be compared to others,

or even be required to compete against friends. 

Of course, this is another perspective on children, and since it is my perspective,  I tend to like it a lot. 

Children are not deficient in anything,

except maybe some specificv vitamin.. 

Deficiency is someone else’s

belief of what should be

Could it be that children,
including us at one time, maybe even now, simply want to
connect with people, to use themselves in their own way....
a way that is creative, of value to others and ultimately

appreciated for who they are inside, not how they perform

for the approval of others? 

It seems, and probably really true, that what the world requires

is the ability for children and big people to see through

not only their own eyes, but through the eyes of others ….

to care about relationship more than being right,

to feel comfortable with difference,

and to value trusting oneself –

thus, possibly avoiding the next war, or belief

that “they” or “them” out there are an enemy.

Maybe even the people closest to us don’t need to change either.  The change could simply be our own.

That would be a relief. 

I am Bruce Scott