Some of the 97%
Who said
that today’s youngsters are wild, unruly and mostly delinquents? Granted, 3% of them are. Today I wish to feature a few of the 97% that
we never hear about.
Thursday
last, the wife and I attended a spaghetti dinner held for the benefit of a
Haitian school being rebuilt after that horrible earthquake. That school, for the last 17 years has been
supported by The Haiti-Laurentides Committee of l’École Secondaire
Augustin-Norbert-Morin, in Ste-Adèle, about 60 kilometers North-West of
Montreal in the Laurentian mountains.
Students
helped by a dedicated teacher are the Committee members, volunteers and
organizers. That evening, about 80 of
them were the ticket vendors, waiters, bus boys, etc. They were without adult supervision since the
school board has cut the job of the person supervising after school activities. Everything went very smoothly and we enjoyed very
good spaghetti and a splendid evening.
In Montreal
where college and university students are on strike to protest a decreed
tuition hike, they have been marching most days and evenings. Their marches were infiltrated with that
despicable group called the Blackbloc, vandals dressed in black and wearing
masks who highjack any kind of street manifestation, save for religious
processions, and wreak havoc.
At first,
most student demonstrators walked away when violence began. For the last three days they have been
opposing the Blackblocers and even helping the police to catch and arrest them.
We may not
agree with the student strike and its cause, but we have to acknowledge that,
in an orderly way, our young ones are standing for their rights, or perceived rights,
and are rejecting the scums that pretend to sympathise with them but are only
doing a disservice to their cause.
Look around
attentively and you will see that our young ones do not deserve the reputation
that sensationalist media are foisting upon them.
