Friday 4th October 2002

Land Rover Treat Kids

Don't bunk off

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[kevinday]

This is more like it, reward the 'good' kids, not the scrotes!

[Simonelite501]

Is the tide begining to turn? Hope so!

[danger mouse]

It's sad I think that kids need this sort of "encouragement" to do what they should be doing in the first place.

I think it's an sign that society doesn't show them enough reasons to motivate themselves to get the on and get out.

Hats off the Land Rover though, as I'm sure Uncle Henry will have ver little to do with this one, for seeing a problem in the local community, and tring make a positive effort to help.

If all big business took this kind of interest, the country would soon be in much better shape than its looking at the moment.


Mouse

[s_willy]

I agree, i never missed a day of school right up to my a-levels.

[Simonelite501]

I think that the majority of children do attend school regulaly, I certainly did and I don't remember anyone from my peir group who didn't. But saying that, it was a long time ago, 23 years to be exact. The media seem to blow things up out of all proportion, and I would like to think that this gesture by Landrover was not some sort of incentive for children to behave well, but rather a treat to celebrate their achivements, I believe there is a difference. Unfortunately there seems to have developed over the last 10 years, a culture of "Being a Criminal is Cool". This is a huge problem, not helped by the media, so called celebrities and sports stars, so if a company such as Landrover can in some small way help to reverse this trend, I for one wholeheartedly support them. However, I am unable to support them by investing in a Landrover vehicle, because they are bloody uncomfotable, slow and the harsh ride and whiney diffs make me feel vey queezy

[danger mouse]

quote:
I agree, I never missed a day of school right up to my a-levels.

I didn't intensionally miss any lesson/lecture even through University.

God!... being there cost so much, it would've been plain stupid to not get as much out of the system as I could, while I could!

What these kids don't seem to see is that they will be paying for their schooling for the rest of their lives in taxes. The more attention they pay while they're there, the less it will hurt them later.

It's the main problem with society in this post consumer post, credit era. People want the latest thing yesterday and want to pay for it tomorrow (if at all) and kids have grown-up thinking that this is the way the actually world works.

They don't realise somewhere along line someone has to put the graft in to make things happen.

When they get out in the real world they're going to find it collapsing around them.

I think it's all little scary.

In a way maybe schemes like the Land-Rover reward trips are a way to start to adress the problem. By showing the sprogs that real people have to put in real effort to create these vehicles. They might get that they don't just grow on trees.


Mouse

{edited to try to remove fuel for suspicions that I may have not been to school at all}

>> Edited by danger mouse on Saturday 5th October 17:24