PsyEythan

First, thank you all for your feedback! Again, thank you all.

Hi everybody, i'm Eythan from Israel. I've been volunteering/working in education and community stuff for years now, even done my army service as an instructor on how to teach. I now got this job of a "Youth Manager"(it sounds a lot better in hebrew haha) in a small community up north and I'm having some problems. So this thing is bassicaly like the Scouts, but it's only for this small community. I'm in charge of of youth activity in this community. This includes youth instructors(ages 15-17 mostly) who carry out weekly activities with 4th to 8th grades, train 9th grade youth and try to get them to become instructors also and carry out activities to the rest of the youth untill they finish highschool and get drafted to the army. I've been having success in private conversation with few of them. We've been having great talks about self knowledge, economics, philosophy and day-to-day life. I've been handing out books to any of them who would read it an I'm actually working on translating "On Truth" to hebrew so some of them could read it. Sadly, I can't seem to get them excited about it collectivly in our weekly activity. To get things worse, all the people I work with(managers from nearby communities, the regional council etc.) are complete SJW leftist nutcases. I obviously can't ask them for help. All of the written stuff that is supposed to help me is full of leftist propaganda(and this is the main reason I'm work in education for shit money although I study CS). Remember that the activity is supposed to be fun and engaging, non of them are forced to participate and it's really hard to get today's youth's attention for more than five seconds. So far I've been using food as a bait every time I wanted to talk about something "heavy", next week we're going to watch "The Matrix" and through that movie have a nice talk(I hope) about philosophy. There's a lot of stuff out there on teaching kids philosophy, not so much about youth - especially in an active way, not in the classroom/lecture way. Can you people relate to this? Have some decent advice? Activities you know about?