Over the past 5 weeks or so I've been in a program, CE City through the College of Creative Studies and Campbell Ewald, an advertising agency. As problem solvers, our goal was to come up with a commercial or public service announcement that addresses and encourages fathers to have a bigger impact on their child's life, pushing the idea of "Taking time to be a dad today". Last Wednesday my group along with 6 others presented in...

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   There's something I need to get off of my chest, questions I feel someone must ask. Why do we continue to hold such low expectations for our youth, but indirectly say that the expectations are high? Maybe, I'm saying this wrong, but it seems as if our message is incorrect. Why do we expect average and below average? Why do we give student loads of simple, tedious, low-stimulating work, in...