by E. A. Mourn

Created on: April 27, 2008   Last Updated: December 30, 2008

The importance of good character, and respect for others, and the importance of doing your best used to be reinforced in the home and even in schools. Now, most of that is taboo, considered politically incorrect in many ways. The public school system is a joke, full of powerless teachers who have little to no control over their students, and in many cases even fear them. This has resulted in a generation of teenagers and those in their twenties who aren't concerned with anything but their own selfish needs. Not just that, but they have a sense of entitlement for no reason except that they exist. There are many contributing factors that have caused this disintegration

Parenting methods have changed a great deal since the previous generation. It used to be that if a child did something wrong, there were consequences to the child's behavior, now it seems that parents have the ridiculous notion that they can reason with a small child, the same way they would reason with another adult. This is just a lack of common sense. Why would a child have the reasoning skills to understand the same, often complex issues that an adult faces. There is a wave of parenting emerging where parents are focusing on become buddies with their kids instead of guiding them on the basics of right and wrong through discipline. I have heard it said that in some states you need a license to have a dog, but anyone can have a kid...not sure how true that is, but it is a good analogy.

Public schools are so overloaded, that teachers are unable to see the bullies, the misbehavior that push children into feeling hopeless, and eventually the embrace of a belief that the world is all about who is bigger and more powerful, and that they will never make a difference with only their mind.

I know this because I was one of those kids.

Now I have numerous college degrees, but I only went through the eighth grade in public school. I was almost raped in the sixth grade, and was picked on relentlessly when I entered junior high because I looked like a kid, a skinny kid. I had no full figure or revealing clothes, nor was I made up to look as if I was twenty. At the time, I thought of myself as odd, abnormal, because I did not fit in with the other girls. This was just when the school system started to degrade, with me being one of its first victims.

My mother constantly told me that I was very smart and could do whatever I wanted with my life. However, the constant abuse I endured under the oversight of overworked

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