Purple is the new red, but in a more compassionate way.

I know about a billion teachers and most of them haven't heard how stressful the color red is for students.

IMO these kids and their parents need to toughen up. See number 9.

Dr. Triffid's 10 Rules for Life Survival:

1. Always assume that the person on the other end of the line is taping the conversation.

2. Tired of your boss yelling at you? Don't keep quitting jobs and starting over again and again. Become a boss and get to yell at people.

3. Never, ever, ever forget your eyeglasses at the Airport Health Spa off U.S. Route 23 in Maumee, Ohio.

4. Half of the people in the world are men. Leave the seat up if you want to.

5. Live by Zall's Law -- "Whenever you get a mouthful of scalding hot soup, the next thing you do will be wrong."

6. No matter how much Puff Daddy brags and pretends to rap on the subject, jail is a hellhole and you do not want to go there for any amount of time whatsoever.

7. Friends come and go. Enemies accumulate.

8. Life isn't fair. That doesn't change. Get used to it.

9. No matter what they tell you in school, nobody in the real world cares about your self esteem level.

10. And as Coach Finstock sez, "Never get less than 12 hours sleep; never play cards with a guy who has the same first name as a city; and never get involved with a woman with a tattoo of a dagger on her body."