Many of us have the same feelings. The arrogant kids nowadays are not like those in previous years, who were taught by parents and teachers alike to look both ways, cross only at the corner, etc. and watch out for their own safety.
My daughter-in-law, a doctor, always mutters under her breath when she has to brake for some moron teenager shuffling across the street with his butt sticking out of his droopy drawers, "You're gonna make a great organ donor!"
We have a large Catholic high school in our neighborhood. Their gym is on the opposite side of a fairly busy road from their classrooms. The city has put up a pedestrian crossing traffic light to let the students cross safely. They totally ignore that light. They just stream across while the light is green for cars and red for them. The first kid there pushes the walk button and they don’t even wait for it change, they just head on across. And they stream across regardless of the status of the crossing signal. Really aggravates me.
I went into the office one day and complained. The administrator advised they had tried to control them better but they just simply refused to go along with the rules. They felt there was nothing else they could do put a stop to it. I told him I would bet him $1,000 that if I drove through the crosswalk one day while it was full of students ignoring the signal and killed or seriously injured a dozen or so them they would soon learn what the red signal means. I told him to ‘fess up, it wasn’t a matter of “can’t” do anything to stop it, but rather one of “won’t” do anything to stop it. Big difference.
Let me hasten to state clearly, before the flame throwers can be gotten from the closet and fired up, I am NOT recommending anyone mow down a dozen or more kids in a school crosswalk, even if they are walking against the signal. My point is the behavior could be stopped if they would give it sufficient priority.