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I'm from a tad after Quicksilver's time, (graduated HS in '65), but I agree with him: it was 'different' then, as in yes we were also idiots and pranksters, and juvie deliquent wrecks trying to get away with all we could. But, only the foolish or self-destructive then, would talk back to, or swear at, or dis an adult to their face, especially a teacher.
I understand that things have changed, (lol!), and we are in the time of kids calling Social Services if they get a mean look from Mom,
but the 'lid is off' the lack of civility jar, imo.
I only taught briefly, as a TA in grad school, trying to get Freshman Comp kids to write a readable paragraph, and then for one un-fun year teaching 'English' in the ol'Southwestern HS, back in the Motor.
Not suggesting that every teacher is 'right' or great or...and, the teach in the story might have been more diplomatic and discrete.
But it seems to me this is a generally uncourteous world we are in, and current kids are simply a reflection of our current 'us': good/bad/different,
but they are a product of what we are, as contemporaries, and it does not seem like the 'environment' is improving any.
GL, mD
Last edited by motordavid; 02-17-2011 at 01:25 PM.
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