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Originally Posted by John Doe
Seems like people with regular jobs have to spend 6 1/2 days/week struggling to stay above water. They spend less time with their kids. Their kids spend time learning from TV, an uneducated teacher/sitter or on the internet, instead of hanging out with grandpa and learning about WWII or starting a feed store (see, grandpa is still working because his 401K was top-heavy with Worldcom options). The kids in Newberry, SC try to emulate kids in Watts, CA they see on TV/net and they system has to react.
I don't think this is the whole problem, but part of it I am sure.
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You appear to be making the assumption that the children of today are in worse shape than we were and the scenarios in the aforementioned anecdotes are necessary and prudent.
Are the kids.........as a group.........vastly different?
Why can't one of them be smacked on the ass when they misbehave?
Why can't Dad slap the kid with a belt?
Why can't a poor performer be forced to go to summer school?
Why is any adult who comes in contact with a child a possible "sexual predator"??
My opinion is that the reaction is way overblown as compared to the stimulus.........a stimulus that is probably not all that much different from 25 years ago.