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Originally Posted by pocketkangaroo
I never remember high school ever being this cruel. Sure there were your cliques and teasing, but never this bad.
I wonder if a lot of this has to do with bad parenting. Most of these kids doing the bullying are probably not given attention or love at home. They are not taught how to respect others or themselves. It's a sad state of affairs that we have these little sociopaths running around schools.
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Well, my kids aren't at that level yet, but it seems to me that most parents aren't really being parents these days.
Even when the economy was doing well, families still needed a dual income just to survive. Both parents would be gone to their 8 hour jobs, which would mean 9 to 10 hours with commuting, and then having to prepare breakfasts and suppers and do what ever house maintenance... I mean, how much time is there for the kids in a 24 hour day?
Add to that a degrading economy and you have a recipe for disaster. What's worse is that parents have 'conveniences' now that they didn't have before... daycares with internet webcams, kids programming on demand, dvd players mounted into their vehicles....
Parents are no longer raising their kids.
The only real education on 'life' that kids get are from other kids. And with no one to step in and say "this is right" and "this is wrong".... they're left to decide for themselves.