Re: Youths assaulting youths
IMHO: If one thing could change (or more accurately, revert back) that could reverse what's happening, it would be, as mentioned by others in this thread, that parents resume their responsibilities as parents! This in turn would be parental expectations (demands?) on the schools to then do THEIR job which would be infinitely more do-able with the support of parents. We of our generation (and I hate to play the 'age' game...) didn't grow up in a vacuum, and our parents didn't countenance any irresponsibility on our part (or at least tried their utmost to see to it). I was a latchkey kid as my mother had to work, but the responsibility of both my parents in their parental role was clear enough 24/7 in my life, and there was no doubt as to what the expectations were of me. How things have changed, and so relatively quickly too....
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