As the younger generation would put it, public education sucks.
Well, it's the same as it was 50 years ago, and then we still had prayer in schools and even studied and recited parts of the Bible, too.
But, what about that wimpy boyfriend of the girl who got attacked? He was holding her hand all the while and even when she got hit a couple of times... LOL...
And after she got hit, he just hugs here... what a wimp!
You noticed that too!!!
Why are we raising a generation of wimps? NO ONE who expects to live past today would dare attack me or mine!!!
So call me a male chauvinist if you want but hit my woman (and she likes that!!) and go ahead and pick out your burial plot!!! That also goes for my children!!!
They’re self-described emos. Google emo or emo boy, and you’ll understand why he’s a wimp.
You forget, schools have been feminizing males all this time as well. You know, you have to be more sensitive, accepting of all ‘lifestyles’, you can have sex with another guy, here’s a fisting kit, we want you to be safe (raw but actual), Title 9, yada, yada.
Not to mention second generation fatherless boys. I know we’ve always had fatherless kids here and there, but then at least you had family or at least a few brothers and sisters to keep you on your toes a little... oh, and real role models and teachers, principals, etc.. Even those who have their mom and dads (may be liberals, God bless ‘em), they’re so self-focused, the kid goes by the wayside and is on their own. These boys don’t know what being a young man ‘means’, courting someone, being a hubby or a dad; What does protecting, responsibility, reason, right and wrong ‘mean’?
These kids are lashing out, next week it could be a gun if not kept in check. What do you want to bet the kids parents say ‘It’s no big deal’, or ‘What did she do to ‘make’ them react’? These are the same parents crying on tv when their kids get shot down for murdering, raping, bullying someone later in life... ‘He was such a good kid, he was doing great, I saw no problems, they’re lying about him’, etc..
Have one kids don’t teach them respect, common courtesy, to use their heads, to focus on success, to have compassion for other human beings, or to respect anothers opinion and find out the reasons why they feel that way, to open their minds. Meanwhile mom and dad throw them expensive toys and clothes but nothing of substance... then wonder why they don’t respect them or go bad.
One vs. 10 isn’t exactly good odds... I’d imagine he was probably in shock, too. Sometimes it’s best to walk away, but they definitely should have reported the incident to police and the school IMMEDIATELY.
I wonder how bad her injuries were (a black eye, bloody lip)? Why didn’t her PARENTS at least say or do something??? That’s what I’d like to know...
Watched the video... If I were him I would’ve smashed the guy with the skateboard he was holding, so don’t get me wrong - I DO get your point... But that’s just me (and I’m a girl, too). By the time _I_ was 15/16 I was so fed up with my Dad’s beating on me that I hit HIM back once (he was easily more than twice my size, too..). But, that ended really badly for me and at times I really wish I hadn’t done it (I ended up with a dislocated shoulder, had to have surgery, and it hurts and I have to be careful with it now even 20+ years later - the next time it goes out I’ll need to have screws put in...).
I do want to point out that some kids aren’t equipped emotionally to stand up for themselves, or others. They were probably BOTH scared, and I’d wager a LARGE bet that this wasn’t even CLOSE to the first time they’d bothered the couple, either.
I don’t think he deserves to be called a wimp. We don’t know him, or what he has been through in his life... WE may have reacted differently, but then we weren’t there, and didn’t know the other kids he was dealing with — he did.
All JMHO.
It was a large school and had 3 stories....you had 5 minutes to get from one class to the next and the halls were shoulder to shoulder no time for fights. If you were late, you got marked and too many lates and you were sent to the principals office...We also had an actual Truant officer that called my house a couple of times.....
I laugh about it today but came home from school one day and my mother asked me where I was, when I said school, she replied that's not what the truant officer said...