>>1999 and today is night and day. The entire country is changing and not to the better.
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>Sadly, you're right, and the reasons are so enormously complex.
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>Recently, there was a very cruel exchange between the parents of one of my daughter's friends and another friend.
>It happened at a birthday party, of all places.
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>I witnessed it. The kid on the receiving end did nothing wrong, but the parents went ballistic and said some things that were shocking and racially-charged. It wound up scaring the hell out of some other kids, and led to some other equally nasty comments from other parents.
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>I get very frustrated when we have issues in our local public school system of bad student behavior - but let's face it, they learn at least some of it from adults.
I feel bad for the children who are of school age (especially elementary and middle school) and their parents.
I live in a town with a lot of tensions at schools and the schools are degrading.
"The creative process is nothing but a series of crises." Isaac Bashevis Singer
"My experience is that as soon as people are old enough to know better, they don't know anything at all." Oscar Wilde
"If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom; and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose that too." W.Somerset Maugham
