Thread: Schools and Social Skills

I understand what you're saying Shovel, but that would be wasting money into something that a school board wouldn't approve for high school. Social skills would have to be taught to younger kids. Public schools already have an incredibly difficult time passing kids for regular core classes. The way Don't talk to strangers. is taught does discourage children from talking to people they don't know, so maybe that lesson should be revised to be more specific and could be expanded to include social skills. Something that includes those trust games, public speaking, and so forth. Now, if teachers were trained to identify socially retarded students, they could contact their counselor to have them enrolled in a program of sorts that wouldn't occupy school time. Something like an after school 'club' or something that meets on the weekends at local hang out spotsmallsetc. that are field trips with actual social skill learning. You would obviously need someone with some sense of child psychology in charge of such a thing to accomplish worthwhile goals and not every school district can afford something that grand. But even with these kinds of prgrams available, you can't force kids to go to them. Even if you get their parents' permission and have transportation set up for them, some will refuse to go. I know I would fit into that category. I wouldn't want to be forced or suggested to go to a stupid after school program to talk to weirdos. What you did is what most will have to do if they give a damn about their life. If they hate it and want to do better, they will find a way. If they some how manage to fail at that, that is what a trained professional would be for. Outside of school, that's you're own problem as you're an 'adult' and are responsible for yourself. As for myself, I decided being nice was the reason why people walked on me and thought I was easy. I helped 'friends' with homework and tutored people. I went to Art Club and Anime Club. I even made sure to try and recruit people for those clubs who I thought would enjoy the company of like midned people. In the end, I made no friends and the people who I thought were friends either used me for sex, money, or a hobby. Once I shed the nice off of myself, then I learned to be more socialble... through being a sociopath. Now I use everyone in my life for my own gains and view humans as tools at my disposal. I honestly don't trust anyone, including my husband. I honestly hate humans as a whole. And I socially engineer and NLP those in my life to do what I want them to do while letting them think it's their choice. Sure, this isn't some happy and cheery life change that mirrors the awesome effort you put into your's, but I can see that if I had attempted any sort of self-help or classes for social skills, they would have been outwardly mocked for how silly they are. Before we try and get kids who'll be more outgoing and socially adept, how about we focus on the teachers who barely have an education? It seems they need more attention before they go off and numb the precious minds of our future with their own inability to learn. I'd much rather have a bunch of children who don'twon'tcan't talk to each other, but have an education to later work out their social retardation rather than social butterflies who're just as vapid and functionally stupid as their parents.