Josh+Oral

My Speech
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**__The world is becoming too PC __** Bullrush, climbing trees and contact sports these are just some of the things that we can’t do nowadays because it is not `politically correct`. The world is getting so bad, for example, in one school over in Australia they banned forward rolls, cartwheels and handstands because they were considered a medium-risk level-two activity what’s that spouse to mean. I’m not saying go and bring the cane back, I’m just saying be more realistic.  If you climb a tree and fall out of it breaking a leg or arm, tough, you didn’t have your balance right, but the hundreds of others who climbed the tree and did not fall off had fun. What about those people who played bull rush year after year having fun, we cannot do this any more. Why you might ask, because one person out of how many hurt themselves. This is probably the same idiot who would fall off his bike going home anyway. So what do we do now, ban biking?  What about rugby? Lots of people get hurt playing rugby but they are never going to ban that are they. So why do they ban all these other things that could possibly hurt us? We need to learn our own lessons and not be wrapped in cotton wool.  There should be some political correctness in the world but not as much as there is nowadays. Nothing was wrong in the olden days so why did we change? Beats me. Teachers if you ask any kid in this school I bet 95% of them will say that we need less political correctness. If they know what it means.   And if you are “for” political correctness, as a parent, then tell me why you are. If you’re doing it to be a good parent, well I’m sorry to say it’s not helping your kids. When you’re a kid, you just want to have fun, but by taking these things away it’s less fun and your life becomes more miserable. Hurting yourself is part of life and the learning experience.     <span style="color: navy; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">I believe life is about right or wrong. At school you used to get a cross if you made a mistake. Not a dot. A cross meant you got it wrong. You failed. A dot means what? That you have another chance to get it right?
 * <span style="color: navy; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Here is a quote from Bill Gates “ **//<span style="color: navy; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Your school may have done away with winners and losers but life has not. In some schools they have abolished failing grades and they'll give you as many times as you want to get the right answer. This doesn't bear the slightest resemblance to ANYTHING in real life.” //

<span style="color: navy; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">In reality that doesn’t happen. How would you like to be operated on by a brain surgeon. Whoops he got it wrong. Oh, give him a dot. No, life is not like that. You cannot control the unfairness of the world. What you can control is the way you react to it. <span style="color: navy; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"> <span style="color: navy; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">That is what we should be taught, consequences of our choices. Don’t limit our choices, let us learn. How we respond makes us the person we become and that is what we need to discover, who we are and how to handle different situations. Don’t make life easy for us or we will fail when we are out in real world by ourselves. You only have about 85 years in your life so make the most of it.