However, we need to ask ourselves why we have such a coarse culture and why children behave like this, and why parents think it's no big deal.
Most of all, we need to ask ourselves "How do we turn this around, and raise children who will treat people with respect?"
One way to do so is, in fact, to impose draconian sentences so that the word goes out that misbehavior is subject to excessive punishment. That might change things. But if we don't want to do that, it begs the question: "What ought we to do?"
The students need to know that kind of behavior is not appropriate nor gentlemanly
Oh Puhhhlease. Do you need to have gravity explained to you, or how the sun will come up every morning, or why 13 year old boys will be prone to playing grab-ass with 13 year old girls???? Gee, maybe draconian laws will stop the ocean tides as well.
ClearCase_guy wrote: “However, we need to ask ourselves why we have such a coarse culture and why children behave like this, and why parents think it’s no big deal.”
Um, because there’s nothing coarse about kids playing grab ass. It’s a natural stage in human development—that’s also why it’s no big deal.
The reactions of the adults involved are what’s making this entire issue more traumatic. They are the one making this a big deal when it should have been resolved quickly by the teachers.
These boys need proper adult supervision, not jail sentences. What happened to an adult pulling them aside and telling them to, “Cut it out!” What moron got a police officer involved?
The school staff who were involved should be fired, because they are clearly incompetent. GEESH!
Nobody has said that the kids shouldn’t be punished. They should be punished in a way to teach them that you can’t go around popping girls behinds.
Every generation from the dawn of mankind has done this horseplay so its not a new thing that is the sign of the times.
Kids mess up and do things they aren’t supposed to. They should be punished so that they will know that is unacceptable behavior. Not labled for the rest of their lives.
I can’t imagine these boys in 30 years. Being accountants, teachers, engineers, maybe even preachers with families of their own, having to register as a sex offender because they popped a girl on the butt in the schoolyard at age 13.
Because it isn’t. Our culture is the most refined in history. Women have rights unknown to past cultures, and to many present ones.
Kids have been horsing around like this since before recorded history. Somehow they survived. I think these kids will too.
Did your daddy forget to tell you about the birds and the bees?
“However, we need to ask ourselves why we have such a coarse culture and why children behave like this, and why parents think it’s no big deal.”
Why children behave like this? Because they’re children!
If you think that kids now are doing stupid things because of modern culture, then you must have been in a coma through childhood.
What we need around here is some sort of draconian sentence for posting such nauseating drivel. Let me guess, the Duke Lacrosse boys had it coming too.
Harshness? What world did you grow up in? Sheeesh!
Grab ass was the rule of the day, the girls love it! It was a part of a normal way of life, a ritual of growing up.
” However, we need to ask ourselves why we have such a coarse culture and why children behave like this, and why parents think it’s no big deal.
Most of all, we need to ask ourselves “How do we turn this around, and raise children who will treat people with respect?”
One way to do so is, in fact, to impose draconian sentences so that the word goes out that misbehavior is subject to excessive punishment. That might change things. But if we don’t want to do that, it begs the question: “What ought we to do?”