The news lately has been full of a group of middle schoolers (by which I assume they mean kids of 10, 11, and 12) who viciously mocked, bullied and verbally abused some 68 year old bus monitor on their bus.
And there's a lot of angst out there - how could those kids do that? Don't their parents teach them any manners?
Of course not.
But what do kids watch these days? TV shows that mock parents and glorify the "Cuteness" of know-it-all kids.
The shows where kids were shown to respect their elders - the Brady Bunch, the Father Knows Best, Leave it to Beaver, are long gone, and shows like Roseanne - where I think each of the two daughters had illegitimate children, Married With Children, where the girl is a slut and the boy is ...well,...whatever he was...
Kids are surrounded by this stuff.
And then we wonder why they have no respect for anyone. And since t hey can't be spanked - they certainly don't have respect for t heir elders.
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