Big Brother Is Watching You, so Get Your Butt to Class

@Charlchase- I hate your stance that all kids lie. It's a load of shit. If you raise your kids right and allow them to earn your trust and respect and honor that trust, they won't abuse it. God, I feel bad for your kids.

And I feel bad for YOUR kids, Alicia.

Oh! That's right!

You don't have kids. You are single, you are not a parent, you don't plan to ever have kids yet day after day you come to Parentdish and post critical comments to other posters.

Why is that? Why does a single woman with no children come to parentdish and criticize those who do?

Why does a mean-spirited woman constantly hunt me down, hound and misquote me every time I post. If you ever took the time to read any of my posts, Godiva, you'd notice I said if I decide to have kids, I intend to adopt. Never have I said I never intended to have kids, just never intended to have my own. I've also told you at least three times why I come on this site. As for Charlchase's comment, I criticize because it is horrible to not trust teens and treat them all like they're criminals.

Alicia you are so blind and oblivious to what is going on around you. I am not a parent either but it doesn't take a fool to see what is going on in the world around us. Today's kids are out of control. They are rude to people who are older then they are. They are mouthy and disrespectful to anyone in authority. They feel like they are entitled to the world without putting any work into it. They will lie in a heartbeat to get what they want and to try to get out of any trouble they get into. They will steal anything they can get their grubby little hands on. They will cheat to try to get ahead instead of putting in the effort to get what they want. They will throw their best friend under the wheels of the bus and won't own up to anything they do wrong and blame it on anyone else but themselves. I am not saying every kid is bad but a good majority of them are. The saying it takes a village to raise a child has long gone out the window. When I was growing up if we did something wrong we got out butts whooped. If we back talked we got backhanded across the face. If we got bad grades in school or stayed out past curfew we got grounded. We had to do chores and help with the house. If we didn't do something right we were made to do it over till we did. If we did something wrong at a friends house we got our butts whooped by that parent then by the time we got home our own parents would know what we did and we got it again from our parents. Now in today's world if a friends parent even thinks of raising their voice or disciplining someone else's child all hell will break loose. If a parent spanks their child it is now called child abuse. If things got back to the way they were when I was growing up I personally think this world would be a whole better place. Oh and I forgot to mention that kids today a lazy. All they want to do now is sit on their butts all day and play video games and chat online with their friends and update their facebook status. God forbid they got off their butts and went out to play and hang out with their friends and use their imaginations to entertain themselves like we did when I was a kid. We went to school. We hung out with our friends. When we weren't in school we did our homework, did our chores and entertained ourselves and were home by curfew. Today's kids just don't know how easy they have it. Oh geeze now I sound like my parents who walked up hill to and from school both ways 10 miles in subzero temps with no shoes and had no books for school and the whole class had to share one pencil to do their schoolwork. LOL I think you better wake before you adopt or pop out those kids if and when you decide to have them or else your gonna be in a whole world of trouble.

How often do you actually spend with kids? Because I can tell you, I know quite a few teenagers and quite a few young kids and I know that the majority of kids are like the majority of adults: good people. Yes there are bad apples and that's what we see in the news, but most people are good people at heart. If anything, teenagers today are more aware of world events than their parents were and many are already trying to get involved to change the ill in this world. You sound like a bunch of old geezers: "Kids these days...The world is going to pot, I tell you!" I see evidence to the contrary every single day. I can't wait to finish college and get out in the world and start actively fixing what you lot have ruined and when my generation slips up, the generation after us will pop up and fix what we screwed. That's how it works. Don't blame kids for living in a different world than you did. They have to respond differently because there are different stimuli, but in the end, kids are kids who still love their friends and have big dreams they want to achieve. Maybe if you had a little hope for them, more of them would achieve them.

Agreed. Also, how is this not going to make kids feel like they're being punished?

How? I wish that there was a way to make people do what is right. But, given the cost of putting kids in jail I think that the cost is justified. Also, funding is based on attendance. Why should my kid not get a good education because someone else is not doing their job? I say send the cops to their homes and take the kids to school! This might work better than getting rid of tenure or paying teachers on "merit".

All invasions of individual rights start as good intentions...