[DemforBush]

"Dana Mason, who teaches second grade in Birmingham, says manners have been at the lowest level she has seen in her 36 years in the classroom. Parents who move South tell her they don’t want their children to learn to say “yes, sir” or “yes, ma’am.” Too demeaning, they say.

Well, there's one source of the problem...

[runninglips]

I have a daughter, her husband and three children in Huntsville Alabama. When they are in trouble, they line up, face eye to eye, and say YES SIR, NO SIR. I will not do this again. We will NOT have this problem again sir.

[Bitsy]

Parents who move South tell her they don’t want their children to learn to say “yes, sir” or “yes, ma’am.”

Then you stay your rude yankee @ss where you are then and leave us alone. We didn’t ask you to come South. This is our turf - respect it, respect us or leave.