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What happened to getting up early, doing chores, walking to school, walking home and finishing homework, helping clean up after dinner, and cleaning up around the house?
Fear of kidnapping happened, fear of peer pressure happened, CPS getting called on the parents happened, "Won't somebody please think of the children!" happened, Columbine happened, increasingly totalitarian schools happened, increasing restrictions on dropping out of school and employment happened.
Fear of kidnapping happened, fear of peer pressure happened, CPS getting called on the parents happened, "Won't somebody please think of the children!" happened, Columbine happened, increasingly totalitarian schools happened, increasing restrictions on dropping out of school and employment happened.
Ha! I live smack dab in the middle of Columbine High School, Arapahoe High School, and the Aurora theater where the mass shooting happened. My kids started walking to school in elementary (as do most of the kids with neighborhood schools in our district), and the middle and high schools have a two-mile walk zone. My kids' high school has an open campus. Try again.
Does anybody else just want to shove a bar or soap in their mouth, give them a lawnmower to mow the lawn with, and a swift kick in the rear? Geez they infuriate me with their expectations, and entitlement, and genuine thought that the world was created with "everything Ok.
What happened to getting up early, doing chores, walking to school, walking home and finishing homework, helping clean up after dinner, and cleaning up around the house? And being thankful you had a house to clean up? Get off the dang iphones!!!
Does anybody else just want to shove a bar or soap in their mouth, give them a lawnmower to mow the lawn with, and a swift kick in the rear? Geez they infuriate me with their expectations, and entitlement, and genuine thought that the world was created with "everything Ok.
What happened to getting up early, doing chores, walking to school, walking home and finishing homework, helping clean up after dinner, and cleaning up around the house? And being thankful you had a house to clean up? Get off the dang iphones!!!
Get a life. You sound like somebody's angry grandpa (and I'm a grandma)
You are complaining about junior high kids.
Geez--have you been to Florida? You want to see a bunch of over-70s with attitude problems? You think only young people are obnoxious or have attitudes? That's ridiculous.
I like talking to younger people. It's interesting getting a fresh unjaded, unprejudiced perspective on the world. What I'm sick of is older people's tunnel vision or sense of self-entitlement just because they are old. The older people that I like thing young.
“The children now love luxury. They have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise.”
Ha! I live smack dab in the middle of Columbine High School, Arapahoe High School, and the Aurora theater where the mass shooting happened. My kids started walking to school in elementary (as do most of the kids with neighborhood schools in our district), and the middle and high schools have a two-mile walk zone. My kids' high school has an open campus. Try again.
IDK I think redguitar has a valid point. Security, restrictions or protocol on these things has changed over the years. Parents have to buzz in, in order to get inside the school, be on a list, show ID to sign a child out. Kids cant be unattended before or after school. Teachers walk them to the cars in the pick up line. They have lock downs anytime anything happens anywhere near the school.
There has also been many articles of child services being called for kids being outside in the yard unsupervised, home for 15 minutes alone, walking alone.
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