This week I have been at Camp Exalted at Jarvis Christian College in Hawkins, Texas. Tonight I encountered a young man who was struggling with some of the many crises facing today's youth. See, our children are facing two types of curriculum at school
1.) School Curriculum 2.) Peer Curriculum. And while both curriculums are both challenging and different, they have a direct affect on one another.

Follow up:

One can often tell how a student is performing in their school curriculum by researching and analyzing how they have performed in their Peer Curriculum. Now I want to take a break here to mention that both of these Curriculums have become increasingly difficult. Each year more chapters, quizzes and test are added to this material and the students taking the class are falling further and further behind because of the pace of both curriculums.

Do you realize that our students are being tested more outside of the class room than inside of the class room? Do you realize the tests outside of the class room are often given without any material to study and to use as a guide to pass?

After talking to this young man about his struggles at school and to stay in the class room and out of detention hall, we stumbled on a key component that was missing from his foundation. I asked him if he had shared his issues with his local youth minister and with his father and mother. His reply, my parents are too busy, and that he was too ashamed to go to his youth minister.

Lord forbid that we will find ourselves to busy for our kids. Here's the truth of the matter. In order for our kids to pass the peer curriculum, they must study from the manuals that we have written through our mistakes and successes. They need our wisdom and our ignorance. What I am trying to say is that our kids need us to survive. They need our lives to prosper and to avoid life’s pit falls. To do this, we must be available for them to study.

If we do this parents and educators, then we will see a great move in the school curriculum performance.