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Originally Posted by Boomer

I decided to delete my long post written here this morning on the subject of how different things are now for teachers. I got out just in time.

In grad school ed law, we talked about in loco parentis — which would have made a locker and backpack search happen without question. — but now the “loco” part of that phrase appears to have a different connotation.

A classmate friend of mine had an older brother who taught mathematics at the junior high school we attended. It was located in a good part of town. Many parents were professionals or owned businesses. We were the HS class of 1960. Anyway, in 1976 my friend and I reconnected and we visited his then retired older brother who with the retired shop teacher were building homes. It turns out both teachers had retired in their early to mid fifties literally the first day they could. I asked them why. Their reply was "The kids changed." Now that was 45 years ago. It was a cakewalk compared to today. Those "kids who had changed" are the parents and grandparents of today's kids which is telling.