The Golden Rule 2

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We graduated from grammar school and went to JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL, whose very name proved how really wrong you were in the first place because you were JUNIOR. This slaughterhouse of the mind conceived of by demented souls who had little or no comprehension of child (person) development - otherwise they never would have isolated children in the hormonal hell of the disobedient, the disoriented, and the depraved  - is now called MIDDLE School - and are you ever! – trapped in the middle between childhood and adolescence.

Your only hope of finding yourself in this existential void is to be just like everybody else, where you discover girls are Girls with a capital G and aren’t ugh! at all, but if they don’t like you, then you’re ugh! and so ugh! you believe it for a long time, sometimes so long that if a Girl ever does like you, you can’t believe it.  Or don’t dare.

You have learned, if not anything else, the primary (and primal) Golden Rule: how to survive.

Then somehow, by the Grace of God, your teachers (yes, you begin to realize that some of them are on your side!), your friends, and oh, now, your parents who are beginning (maybe) to acknowledge you as a human being, you ESCAPE (read graduate) from that no-person’s land, and you go to SENIOR high school, where you really are senior, perhaps in learning something (in spite of or because of your teachers) but assuredly sophisticated disobedience, which now becomes manipulation of the adult order.

Having matured (euphemism!) to that Age of Enlightenment you now become a  COLLLIDGE STOODENT  only to discover that the Great Golden Rule of education where you were taught how wrong you were extends into the current design of college desks whose surface is ½ as big as a regular desk, and that half is on the – yup! - you guessed it! - the RIGHT side! We Lefties, now that we are smart enough to be in college, know that that side is definitely the WRONG side. They do have SOME left-handed desks, now, and that’s probably because there are more left-handed people writing with their left hands (probably because those who created all those golden rules gave up trying to teach cursive to all those aberrant left handers).