[Mobius]

Where do you live...?

[iamzack]

I assume the older among you folks are about my parents' age.

When my mum was a kid, her little brother tried to bomb their high school.

There are people like that in every generation. While swearing is arguably more common these days, it's also less taboo. Because people got a bit smarter and started to realize words really are just words.

[Scotty]

Where do you live...?

Lansing, Kansas.  I go to Lansing High School, and the other is Leavenworth High School (we compete for the title of LHS ).  I got a B- is social studies and got stuck in the remedial class once.  Of 24 students, not counting myself, 21 had either been sent to juvie for some reason or another, averaged eight suspensions a year, or had been pregnant in the last year.  I hated that class with a passion.

[Mobius]

There are people like that in every generation. While swearing is arguably more common these days, it's also less taboo. Because people got a bit smarter and started to realize words really are just words.

I'm pretty sure stuff like that doesn't happen here...

[General Battuta]

There are people like that in every generation. While swearing is arguably more common these days, it's also less taboo. Because people got a bit smarter and started to realize words really are just words.

I'm pretty sure stuff like that doesn't happen here...

Of course it does. Last time I was in Italy I was chased back to my hotel by a bunch of teenagers yelling swears.

[Mobius]

Hotels and schools are two separate things.

If you extensively rely on swearings and bad conduct in Italian schools you get much more than a reassignment to a course for people like you. In 13 years of schools I've never experienced anything like what iamzack and Scotty said.

[Scotty]

Oh I wish they would get more than just a course re-assignment .

[Turambar]

Oh I wish they would get more than just a course re-assignment .

maybe if their parents weren't so convinced that getting an abortion was murder, they could have waited to have children until they had a stable home life, causing this whole situation to not happen.  >.>

[General Battuta]

Hotels and schools are two separate things.

If you extensively rely on swearings and bad conduct in Italian schools you get much more than a reassignment to a course for people like you. In 13 years of schools I've never experienced anything like what iamzack and Scotty said.

In all my time in public school in America I never experienced anything like that either.

[Scotty]

Oh I wish they would get more than just a course re-assignment .

maybe if their parents weren't so convinced that getting an abortion was murder, they could have waited to have children until they had a stable home life, causing this whole situation to not happen.  >.>

Keep it off this thread.  Besides, in this case, it's more the people than the time.

[General Battuta]

Oh, the dispositional bias...how it does pervade us.

[peterv]

I think that this is clear: the phenomenon of young people's antisocial behavior has to do with the environment that they live in.

That given, the last one that we can blame for that kind of behaviour is those young people. Parents, media, modern ethics above all is the cause IMO. An environment made by the older ones, or allowed to exist by them. So calling kids rotten, etc. is ridiculous.

Now, by allowing, or even supporting practices like the use of the mosquito device can cause one and one only result: Hate from the younger people.

And it's a justified result, caused by morons and the morons in this case are not the kids.

[Blue Lion]

Ah yes, everyone's fault but the kids themselves

[iamzack]

To a certain extent, yeah. Kids are largely a product of their environments.

[peterv]

every sociology's student will confirm it.

[Blue Lion]

Then the adults are a result of their upbringing which is a result of that person's upbringing etc etc etc etc

[Scotty]

Where did it start, and more importantly, how can we "fix" it.

[Blue Lion]

What "problem" are you attempting to "fix"?

[iamzack]

I did say "to a certain extent." Upon reaching a certain age, most people become capable of examining themselves and their lives, and then doing something to change them if they find them unsatisfactory.

However, upbringing can work against that. For example, if it is never indicated to someone that they have any power in their own life, then they will assume that that is the case.

[peterv]

... and more importantly, how can we "fix" it.

 

BL: massive stupidity problem