An incident was captured in a 10-minute video posted to YouTube showing a 68-year-old woman trying her best to ignore the stream of profanity, insults and outright threats directed at her by outrageously disrespectful teens on their way to school.
I'm so heartbroken over this. How on EARTH anyone thinks it is okay to be so horribly disrespectful to any person, let alone an older lady is completely outside my understanding or acceptance. (Warning, video contains harsh language.)
I was raised in a multi-generational household who's matriarch (my grandmother) was a Polish immigrant / Holocaust survivor. Oh, and we were dirt poor in America. Being disrespectful just wasn't done because it was always our elders that took care of us on up the line. I'm not sure if I always believe in "an eye for an eye" but somehow in this case I really would love these horrid teens shamed in public, preferably on YouTube. Yes, I know it's petty to feel that way, but after just loosing my grandmother in May seeing this woman just sit and take the abuse, knowing if she spoke up she most likely risked physical harm, makes me want to vomit.
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Bullied New York bus monitor: I just hoped they would go away
More than $120,000 has been raised for Karen Klein, 68, who was captured on video being taunted by high school students
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Thank you for sharing your thoughts. I agree! I also was raised to Respect Your Elders.
Ah horrendous video capture; those kids were relentless and many will grow to feel deep shame when they reach adulthood. The happy flip side, the response, is heart-warming. though.
I think society must all discourage that and speak against it. disrespect to any people is not something to be commended.
Public Humiliation would work well for these idiots. I watched this on the morning news, and all I could think of was what I would have done if it had been my grandmother.
They would consider themselves stars – not humiliated +Dawn Carl
Really disgraceful occurrence. Wish you all success in you efforts to spread awareness about the need to show respect to elderly persons.
These kids parents need a nice slap in the mouth that's the problem.
This is absolutely inexcusable behaviour. I would not let this stand in my house. I am glad they got it on video so there is indisputable proof that these kids are guilty and appropriate discipline can be dished out.
A couple months walking to school should help suffice, me thinks. (yeah, its summer – they should be made to walk to school every day anyway)
Unfortunately +Lynette Young, the sad fact of the matter is that kids, in general, have more rights and freedoms than the adults who care for them. Additionally, the fact that these teens behave this way indicates that the parents weren't involved nearly enough during the formative years and, as a result, suggest that these teens aren't going to change much during adulthood without some significant event to invoke a realization that this behavior is wrong (morally and ethically). My heart goes out to this woman (and people who have to tolerate this behavior). The reality is that if she had spoke up or attempted to intervene in anyway, she would have most likely lost her job.
Unfortunately Lynette, this is a product of the lack of disciplinary action both at home, and in the schools. Like you I was always REQUIRED to have the utmost respect for my elders. What these kids need to do is have forced time doing some community service for some elders. It is just gross…and kids think this stuff is cool? Disgusting.
http://www.democratandchronicle.com/article/20120620/NEWS01/306200023?nclick_check=1
Here's the original interview. Great stuff here. I'm glad Karen got some positive attention out of this. She's a lovely woman.
I love this new generation of "entitled" youth…it means that when I'm 60 I won't be obsolete, because these idiots will in no way generate the experts needed to replace me 🙂
I saw this on FB and could only get through about 45 seconds. Disgusting behavior.
The new generation of 'entitled youth" are raised by the older generation of "entitled youth" … and don;t forget that. The apples do not fall far from the tree.
Depends on the humliation +miriam dunn ! I can think of some serious humiliation I could put them through. < evil grin > However, community service in the form of hard labor working on an elders home or such would be next on my list. These kids have not learned respect at all, regardless of what the father of one of them says. " I can't believe my son would do this". SMH
High school students? The future, so-called "elite"? Really "promising"!
True. The number of coddlers I meet here is ridiculous. I was raised with corporal punishment when I was small, and extra chores and grounding when I was older. Did me no harm and instilled a great work ethic in me.
"Youngstas looking at us, calling us bustas.. can't help but reminisce back, when that was us" Dr. Dre
Amen, +Wendy Cockcroft . Amen.
I'm asking you because you seem to have been on here a while……
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apparently there was nobody else on the bus… nobody who witnessed this happening… nobody to intervene… nobody to report it…
Who was driving the bus? I assume it was not on auto-pilot.
The irony of all this is those kids will grow up and once they reach a certain age will be the first to cry about how the youth have no respect for their elders.
And they will raise more of the same.
Yep, when I was coming up, the stuff that kids are getting away with today was unheard of. Example: I was at a track meet waiting for my turn to run a race. I said a big Kahuna cuss word and all of the sudden it seemed like everything came to a halt. This was because the coach overheard me and immediately stopped what he was doing to ream me out for cussing. All this happened in the middle of a major race that our school was involved in. Needless to say, I never, ever cussed around the coach again. As well, I developed a long term respect for that coach — because he took the time out in the middle of a race to discipline me.
not fair, I so much hate bullies cause it is not a good thing that they do.
This is absolutely unacceptable, I fear for our future if this is the generation that we are raising.
The abuse was awful and inexcusable, but $124,000 should buy her a reeeeaaaalll nice vacation 🙂
Respect for one's elders is taught at home. Clearly those bratty teen agers weren't taught to be respectful. Rodney Dangerfeld use to kid about getting "no respect", yet these same kids demand respect from their elders. We live in an age where there is no respect. Recently a reporter showed no respect to the President. Regardless of your personal thoughts, one should show respect. For when you don't not only does it hurt someone else, it just reflects on you and your family.
Respecting our elders is unfortunately a lost trait in our society. I see grandchildren screaming at their grandparents in stores and I am appalled – I would NEVER even consider doing that to my grandparents. The disrespect that is rampant in our society is embarrassing.
Embarrassing indeed.
I too was sickened after seeing this on the morning news. Every one of those kids should have been suspended from school and they should also be banned from riding the bus until they finish high school. Maybe once their parents are inconvenienced they'll actually wake the hell up and take note of the fact that their kids are a problem that needs to be dealt with. Although I'm sure in their minds, they're blaming the school or the bus company for this. It's pathetic.
respect to others not matter their age start at home. Kids are the mirror of their home. I am glad of the education my mother gave me, not only with love but with a lot of punishment as well!! We are in a new era, ugly times and no respect from no one, so the more i know people the more i love my dog!!
Only the parents have a lasting effect on children. Instead of my explaining this in lengthy form, just let me ask you this: *WHICH TEACHER RAISED YOU?*
Teachers, coaches, neighbours – we can only be role models. We can only slip a life lesson, advice, admonishment lesson in between the time we are doing what we are supposed to be doing: Teaching!
Nope. From the best to the worst teachers I have had I do not credit any with who I am today except my parents. And quite frankly I am tired of this notion that anyone but parents are responsible. Because if it were true this bus lady is also responsbile for these kids and she is not.
Maybe it's because I'm younger than most people here, or maybe because I have a ridiculously accurate memory, but I do remember when growing up my elders talking non-stop how disrespectful kids were to them. Perhaps they weren't as bad as in that video, but I do remember some kids when I was a kid being very rude to their elders.
It's a problem that has been around for what seems like ever. Kids are always disrespecting their elders and have their lives too easy. Heck even Plato talked about that issue. While it's awful what those kids did, I don't believe we have a higher morale ground by claiming that these things never happened in our youth, because quiet honestly, they did, though there was no social media or Google+ back then to spread like today.
Looks like this lady turned out okay after the incident.
Really, will they pass a law forcing people to be nice to each other over it?
+Mike Rehmeyer I don't know if there is any talk about new laws, but the fact is some child threatened this woman with physical (and sexual) harm. Trust me, there are already existing laws that cover this.
These incidents happen in greater number, with more kids, more frequently and are increasingly cruel. So while the blanket issue is not new, its current state certainly is.
I couldn't even bring myself to watch the video because I know it would upset me. If that were my child, his life would be taking a VERY drastic turn and a lot of the liberties that he enjoys would be taken away until he learns how to treat people with the respect they deserve. I hope the amount raised goes through the roof and Karen can sit back, relax and enjoy life instead of having to deal with spoiled brats. You know what? Where's my credit card?
/rant
Also, the fact that this crime was recorded has to raise the question of its legitimacy. How many more people will stage situations to mimic this one, knowing what a cash cow it will generate via donations if the publicity is conducted well enough. It's really setting bad precedence.
http://www.indiegogo.com/loveforkarenhklein
more than $170 000 raised already 🙂
There should be a bully registry , much like the sex offender registry , so people could see who they're getting ready to marry or hire.
What kind of home do think the kids are raised in. Respect starts in the home. Most kids have not been taught and brought up right. It''s all about what kind of parents they have.
+Steve Anderson I totally agree with you! If there were a bully registry their behavior would be with them every where they go! There's a famous poem by Dorothy Law Nolte called children learn what they live. The gist of it is if you see certain behavior consistently you will learn to be that way. It is obvious where they got their lack of respect and compassion from!
They only insult the old woman because she is perceived as weak. I bet these teens don't dare to say a word to a big built dude! Shame on them! Bullies :/ YIKES!
there is also the possibility of the factor of "mob effect" here … one kid starting it, others joining in for whatever reason and then it just goes wild.
that is so sad thoes kids just dont hae no life
A belt, paddle or a switch from a tree. Enuff said.
besides parents, society is the problem, the media the movies the cartoons. all of them show how funny and cool is to disrespect anybody. how cool is too beat someone. but we all of us laugh!!!!
Kids don't treat people with respect because there is usually no consequence to their behavior. They know she can't slap them. They know she can't speak back harshly or threaten them. Her only choice was to take it. Had she responded, people would be chastising her for not being the "bigger person." Those kids, and others like them, deserve to be slapped in the mouth.
+Juan Carlos Casaverde Buggs bunny, Road runner, Tom and Jerry, just to name a few. Violent of all them and I never did or saw anyhting like that on my bus, because I knew I would get my ass wooped.
liberalism and socialism run amok, until parents and teachers can really discipline their kids this will continue to go downhill.
you right, those old cartoons were funny, just look Foghorn Leghorn it beat the dog all the time!!! but i don't know how to explain it but it is was not negativity or something that will make you go and kick a dog!!
Think I'll skip the video…clearly there is a disconnect to aging in the youth culture…I'm just biding my time, they have to get old sometime
I know everyone is extremely angry and rightfully so. There is no excuse. None. But who wants to take a bet that some of the little demons go to church? Get good grades? Present one face to mom and pop and another to their friends? There is a lot of stuff happening in that video. Crowd mentality, No internal filters, Playing to the crowd.
Pre-teens and teens are not good at considering anyone other than themselves. They are still growing up. Short term thinking. If not for the video they might not even remember that they did this.
You hope the lessons parents try to drill in take, for some it is all they can do to get them to wash themselves and not stink up the room. Parents do the best they can but sometimes normal kids to profoundly stupid things.
Yes, there needs to be discipline, as in invoking a personal discipline as a life long tool, not necessarily invoked with a switch, belt or whipping stick. Empathy which seems to thought of a sissy skill or weakness in our culture needs to be taught.
Again, in no way am I condoning what these pro-terrors have done. They need to be held accountable. Seriously accountable. Wanting to beat the snot out of them is understandable. We have a sustained culture of bullying. What do we choose to do about that?
But how about…, it happened here yesterdae in Singapore, where i'm from, a younger woman was verbally abused by a grandmother after the young lady graciously offered her seat to the old lady in the train…
But how about…, it happened here yesterdae in Singapore, where i'm from, a younger woman was verbally abused by a grandmother after the young lady graciously offered her seat to the old lady in the train…
So, how are we supposed to respect the elders when the elders are acting rudely?
+Faiz Chavez It really isn't a matter of age. You respect the person. If you don't want it done to you then do not act that way to another person. There is no promise or guarantee the person will respect you back.
The young lady respected the older woman by offering the seat. There are all kinds of people in the world and being respectful helps to get along with 90% of them. With the other 10% you do the best you can.
They've now raised over $250,000 for her. Of course, now that +Matthew Inman has commented about it, I'm sure the poor lady will get sued by Charles Carreon for conspiring to run an illicit charity or something. I guess, in addition to Twitter and Ars Technica, good ol' Chuck can subpoena Google+, too. 😀
I do believe in the saying "never bad student, always bad teacher." Teacher being those adults, parents, teachers, coaches, etc that guide those students in this case, children.
If this is how these kids typically behave so do their parents.
Next, look at the United States education system that fills a kid's head with the notion that they have the same voice as their parents. I see it on TV and movies as well. Let me know if you need specific examples because they are aplenty and pretty ridiculous when you analyze them.
How many times have you seen the CHILD character in a movie or show as the wiser guide to the adult(s), showing them the path to the light of knowledge. Yes, it is only make believe but the CHILDREN in real life believe it and feel they do not have to respect anyone because they know as much as the next person. Also, if it is only a movie or TV show, why are actors who portray characters in movies used as experts in front of Congress or other panels on the subject matter in the movie they PRETENDED to be something they really aren't??
I have actually seen articles written by "experts" stating kids should have a say in the type of vehicle a family purchases, where they live and the type of house they should buy. SERIOUSLY!!???!! This is just liberalism and socialism run amok. You can disagree with it all you want but it is the plain truth. The day I give a CHILD purchasing authority for an expense of tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of dollars is the day they are the one making the money! Other than that they should been seen and not heard! Now do you extreme leftists understand that old adage???
For those of you who think it is just in the home, realize our government now use school children to conduct surveys of their families that intrude into our privacy. Jimmy Carter created the NEA in 1979 so there was a uniformed platform that could be put forth nationally in the name of education…yeah, right! I call it the first step in the unified attempt to propagandize our youth. My kids both came home with surveys asking about our personal habits such as if we drink alcohol and if so how much, if we smoke and other very intrusive questions. The school tried to pass it off as nothing but a school exercise which is a total LIE based on the questions asked; just way too intrusive! What they got back from my wife and I isn't really suitable to post here; we were highly PO'd! Many other parents rejected and complained as well.
But it's VERY deliberate and just another step towards a police state using education to further destroy the family by the school driving a wedge between parents and children by point out some of their parents less than favorable habits and activities according to the national board of propaganda. My kids said they discussed some of the results that came back in the surveys in class and the teacher played God with them pointing out the "bad" habits…All which are sanctioned by the very state conducting the survey because they can tax them! Convenient, eh? We condemn your activities, will let you LEGALLY do them but will tax them as a penalty for such disgusting habits….and now, they want to build casinos!! What a joke!
Are you familiar with the Frankfurt School? No? LOOK IT UP!! They are right on target with their agenda.
Familiar with the "Rights of the Child" BS the U.N is trying to shove down our throats??? Think it is bad now, wait if that beauty passes and for those of you out their willing to give up sovereign U.S. authority to a bunch of 3rd world dictators and thugs, please move to one of their countries yesterday, PLEASE! That joke of an organization exists for one reason; extort as much money from the U.S. as possible in the name of "fairness and equality". Yeah, we saw the end result of their "Oil for Food" program' made money for a few most importantly the corrupt head of the U.N.
Then, ask yourself again, why do kids behave this way? My answer, "Look in the mirror, America because your tolerance towards overly liberal, socialist policies have created it and reduced our society to nearly total apathy and anarchy!"
Sometimes unruly kids just need to be taken to the woodshed!
I liked the view that +Mike Elgan placed on this incident. The kids were behaving in a appalling manner, but rather than slating them or their parents, we need a larger look at the society issues.
Before you start flaming me, I think those kids acted deplorably, and should be severely reprimanded.
Sad story all-around.
I also was raised to respect the elder. This day and age kids have no respect for their parents, so why should they have respect for anyone else. Just no discipline. When my son was growing up he was told if you get into trouble at school or on a bus, then you will be in trouble when you arrive home. Never did have trouble with him. I really felt sorry for this woman. The kids have no feelings what so ever. Just mean.
Juan, you are so right!
Dom, agree!
miriam dunn – I'll debate you on that. First off, how old are you? If you are an adult and you are telling me that you had no external influences that swayed you at all growing up then you grew up in the woods or a desert away from all population centers living as a hermit or you recently woke up from a coma and do not remember your youth. If you are either a teenager or young adult and/or don’t have kids then you have no clue what you are talking about.
Remember, despite how your parents raised you, one dumb decision at the wrong moment by an external influence can have a life-long impact on your entire life. How many kids text despite their parents telling them not to have altered multiple people’s lives in an instant for the worse? So the government intervenes to forces cell companies to do PSA’s telling kids not to text as they drive and create laws punishing them if they get caught doing so. Shouldn’t their parents’ word be enough according to you? It is the gospel, right? They do it anyways. So it is 100% the parents fault in this scenario?
As I asked previously, did you wake from a coma; do you remember being a teen and your parents being the biggest idiots on the planet? No? Oh, you must be the exception to the rule then.
Only INVOLVED parents have the deepest, long term effect on their children's SOCIAL behavior and hopefully work ethic, morals, values and principles if it is contantly reinforced but there will always be external influences that will get the best of them because they are only human, not mind numb robots as you seem to think.
Now let’s look at some of the constant hammering our kids face from some of those external forces and the biggest being our education system (which actually does absolutely nothing about bullying out of fear of lawsuits).
This very same school system is telling our kids that our Christian religion and values are no good backed by the ACLU backed by the government as most parents sit on the sidelines too afraid to battle the state and ACLU. Am I wrong?
One complaint about the mention of “God” in the Pledge of Allegiance will have it stopped but one complaint about having it stopped won’t do anything. Matter of fact, a thousand complaints about it being stopped wouldn’t do anything. Think there is an agenda there? Most schools call Christmas tress, holiday trees but that doesn't impact children at all in how they think, right?
You did hear about the organized protest by liberals at a NYC school of kindergartners recently over their singing of a pro-American song that the school prevented them from singing at school out of fear of someone who didn’t hold the same belief may feel discriminated against even though we are in the USA, they are attending an AMERICAN public school and nearly every parent of those kids involved loudly protested at the decision of a complaint that never happened? So they did it off-site and guess what? A bunch of liberal adults showed up to heckle and harass the kids as they sang the song. Real mature, eh? Also, who do you think told them about it? I’m thinking one of the progressive liberal educators who got ticked off about the event taking place out of their control organized by the kids’ PARENTS. You sure about how schools can’t possibly have a lasting impact on kids over parents when this type of thing occurs in this country DAILY by a single united front from sea to shining sea led by the NEA and ACLU? You sure??
To dismiss me by a single, very over simplistic sentence of “WHICH TEACHER RAISED YOU?” is an easy copout to ignore everything else I said in my comment because as of today public schools provide all 3 meals for kids, they are looking over kid’s shoulders at the lunches their parents packed for them to see if they are worthy for them to eat and if not, replace the with government provided meals deemed "more nutritious”. Again, need the specific examples of this actually happening? If the parents don’t raise a beef then the schools have grabbed another piece of individual freedom and parents’ rights over how they raise their kids. Are you sure about your statement??? I don’t go away easily.
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So let's see, a kid being told by the school, which represents the government, which represents the LAW. is telling kids their parents value system is wrong; their shoving a phony religion and innutritious meals down their throats and you say there is no long term impact there? When a child goes through an indoctrination program that preaches the same thing from K – college by ALL in that system, you are telling me that has no long term impact at questioning their own upbringing? It doesn’t make them wonder at any point if their parents had their best interest at heart when for over 12 years those people who THEIR PARENTS told them were the best ones to educate them by virtue of putting them on the school bus every day contradicted what their parents told them throughout their entire education??? It leads me to believe one of 3 things about you:
1. You have no clue how propaganda works
2. You are part of the propagandist system confusing our kids today.
3. You don't have kids.
Or are you telling me that as parents, kids should be told to take what their teachers say with a grain of salt?? Is that what your parents said to you? Or was it you went to school at a time when the parents decided as a community what a school would teach their kids as opposed to a centralized bureaucracy as we have today that peddles a uniformed message to all 50 states that slowly crept up on America and now we have some of the most poorly educated children in the industrialized world despite spending the most per student that are crude , can't spell or do simple math?
I can tell you for a fact that public education does not want involved parents; they want parents who are going to back and reinforce the propaganda they feed the kids, never questioning motives or intent. I know because I spent 14 years fighting our public education system tooth and nail nearly every day over what they were filling our kids heads with, questioning what they were being told at home and the values they were being brought up on.
I understand the demon all too well because I have a son with Asperger’s and had to fight our school system every day he was in that system from K – 12. Have a few years to hear a few horror stories? Most parents wouldn’t fight the demon the way I did as I spoke to many other parents that just allowed and tolerated the abuse by the system because that system made them feel powerless. Remember the poster of the mouse flipping off the eagle; I’m the mouse. When it comes to my children, there is no monster too big to battle and I have learned all too well about that particular monster in our society and you have to be the best advocate against that hideous creature or your kids will forever be ruined!
Public education in this country wields more power than they should and they do not teach, they indoctrinate through propaganda! And I don’t even know how many of those teachers in the system realize they are being used for just that. My youngest son had several of his high school teacher tell him just that as a senior last year.
If mommy and daddy are the ones that are the biggest influence on their kids as you say, when did parents give the school system the right to indoctrinate their children into their point of view about human sexuality and relationships even if it flies in the face of those parents’ beliefs whether they like it or not? Are you going to start splitting hairs to tell me that is different and parents should have to acquiesce to what the school demands in this case? If so, you are peddling the same social agenda as the school system while many disagree.
All kids need to learn in school are the 3 R’s; not putting condoms on cucumbers and read how Heather has 2 mommies as neither of them will help any child to be successful in the real world . But the 3 R's went out the window a long time ago and has been replaced by a very progressive agenda stressing "tolerance" where kids swear openly in class, pick on other kids in class, talk during lessons in class which just makes kids more disrespectful and angry because regardless of the fact that you are the parent, they are at school all day where there is ZERO discipline enforced by any teacher as stated by my kids ( to the teacher's defense, they don't want to be sued and I can't blame them ..in some cases) and to just dismiss that school doesn't have any lasting impact on behavior is naive and foolish.
true, and hurt touching…sad
I should not say this, but i wouldn't want the responbility of raising kids in this age. Thankful i stopped with one, education and all. Been there and done that.
Sad that sometimes it seems that the newest generations are loosing respect for basic morals.
Yes, i really think so.
just adding more information on this story.
Apparently, a couple other (similar) videos had been posted before. She, the bus monitor of the school bus, has never reported the behaviour.
I'm not justifying the behaviour "but" perhaps if the behaviour had been reported the first time then it wouldn't have escalated into this.. .maybe.
(Still sickening, no matter what the circumstances, past and present)
Being reported would have helped.
that's what I thought – -especially since it was her job to do so. I can understand not saying anything in the moment, as I can see things just escalating to who knows what .. but then something should have been done.
I think that is the big message here. We are appalled by the students' behaviour but how often do we see similar behaviour (on a milder level) and not say anything. How often do we turn our heads, pass on by and pretend that we didn't notice or we say that it isn't our business? How often are we the ones who let the little behaviours take place which then become more frequent and more inappropriate?
I thought the phrase, "It takes a community (Village) to raise a child", meant just that. Since parents aren't around all the time, isn't it therefore our moral obligation to step in when we see something like this and put a stop to it? or at least say something? I live in a small community and quite often you will see members of our community helping to raise the kids/stepping in and correcting a situation or praising as well. Or perhaps I am just naive and thinking that this is what we are to do as adults.
in the "good ol' days", the neighbourhood did indeed raise the children because the children were in the neighbourhood. The neighbours helped supervise, the neighbours helped guide, the neighbours were role-models, the neighbours cared and the neighbours helped.
In the "good ol' days" people stepped up and stepped in and weren't afraid to say something in fear of parents saying "it's none of your business".
In the "good ol' days" family was priority over profit – not just within the family but society as a whole.
In the "good ol' days" children were safe to roam the neighbourhood to explore, to play, to learn.
In the "good ol' days" things were different and yet the same. Our society, as we struggle to figure out all that is different is also trying to figure out how to provide the same as well. Working together, supporting each other and caring about one's neighbour is part of the "same" that we need to get back – but we are getting there. We are re-learning how to be "one community", 'one neighbourhood". We are re-learning how to be there for our children – all children – and help them learn about themselves, about the neighbourhood, about social responsibilities and self control, and about caring for our planet.
We (the adults of the world) are growing up.. we are learning…. but we still have a way to go, as apparent in this video.
Judy Amendt; No, it doesn't take a village; it takes 2 parents. At one point there was a dad who worked and a mom who stayed home. Then feminism criticized that model and belittled those who "bought in to it". But under that "horrible" model, America grew to be a huge world power far beyond any nation has ever done and liberals didn't like that. They were guilty and enraged with that notion and went on their "blame America" rampage. Since odumbo has been in power, all he has done is run around the world and apologize for everything American and I resent that and him. He doesn't represent me because I don't disrespect my country or myself like he does. He can go pound sand with every other nimrod in Washington.
Liberals have destroyed the family to the point where they are on the verge of forcibly taking over the family via the NEA and put the burden on the village because that same village has forced parents to be out of the house working to pay the bills like the confiscatory taxes to pay to educate the child in the village as deemed by the NEA (highest rate per student in the world, mind you and ranked 19th; great job, NEA-controlled village!) yet the very same NEA doesn't dole out any discipline then blames the out of hand kids on absentee parents. Again, the village will not let schools discipline kids for fear of lawsuits. Instead, they have them arrested these days because it is easier to give the kid a criminal record and destroy their lives than it is to dole out some discipline to nip it in the bud. And that is a fact. All out of design by the NEA.
Yet, the village wants no part in the responsibility of raising someone else's kids even though the NEA keeps grabbing bits and pieces via their policies such as providing all meals, intervening on a families privacy in the name of “school assignments”, telling kids they have rights at home their parents can’t prevent forcing the responsibility on the village. This also gives them opportunity to get in the family home to charge the parents with neglect as deemed by them. Vicious circle eh? Yet, everyone is in denial about it.
Why do I know about it? Well, glad you asked!! Because my wife and I bought in to that old horrible family model of a parent being home with the kids and it happened to be her and we kept a very close eye on the schools because we have a son with Asperger’s. I’ve dealt with everything I’ve stated above including the school doing nothing when a black kid was verbally being abusive toward our son with Asperger’s, using every racist comment about whites as well as swearing in front of the teacher standing 3 feet a way and the teacher did NOTHING. When my son asked why, the teacher stated matter of factly, “well, you are white.” Ignoring the obivios racist statements. When we brought it to the principal, they principal stated AND I QUOTE, “white males do not fall under protected status in the eyes of the law.” A white teacher reprimand a black student for racism?? No way!! I bet the kid’s parents wouldn’t have felt the same as the teacher if they are decent parents. I’m thinking they would have forced him to apologize to my son for being ignorant.
I won’t even tell you what my son said to that teacher to evoke the exact response he said the teacher would be intolerant to that the teacher later had to apologize to my son for overreacting to and admitted that he fell right in to my son’s trap. MORON!!
Schools do no wrong and our children are failing because idiots like Elizabeth Warren use another tired liberal mantra of not enough money by attacking Republicans for “Big Oil” subsidies that were taken when they cut school programs. For the life of me, I can’t seem to find where or when this was done She has failed to provide specifics about what programs were cut to give the money directly to the oil companies under what subsidies. But the Kool-Aid drinking sheeple of Doprah-nation buy it!
I am just scratching the surface here, people. Just look in the mirror every time you buy into government being able to do something for you better than you can do for yourself. And if you tell me it is compassion for others less capable then you are a bigger fool for following the fool feeding you the BS.
When I was younger, you listened to your elders in the neighborhood and school out of fear of them telling your parents and if you were a boy, your dad taking you out to the woodshed. Today, dad gets arrested and charged with child abuse if that walk happened because of notions put in their heads by, you guessed it, the village idiots at the school!
Today, you get sued for intervening in a child "expressing themselves" even if their expression is disrespectful of other's rights because it fits the template of those controlling the village which of course is the NEA. How else can ONE student bring a lawsuit against a school for mentioning God, even though hundreds of other students protest the opposite? Don't they have Freedom of Expression rights, too? And I bet if it they were Muslim or Jewish, not a peep!! Only Christians get attacked because that is part of the glue to the American family!
And if you try to use the tired, lame liberal argument of "Separation of Church and State", you need to go reread our founding documents because how liberalism interprets it today is NOT what it states or how it was intended. The establishment clause was there to prevent government from forcing people into a single religion THEY RUN. Read it yourself; don't let someone else interpret meaning for you, read it yourself. After you get done reading that. Start combing through the other Founding documents to see how many times God is indeed mentioned. But you were never taught them in school. I carry the pocket version of them around with me.
That is another reason our country is a mess because you let idiots like Nancy Pelosi get away with telling you to pass healthcare so we can find out what is in it rather than know what you are buying before you actually fork over the money. WHAT!?!?!?! Would you buy a house like that?? Buy it, then you get to see it? How's this, give me $1,000 and I will give you a car but you have no right to know what you get for your $1K until you give me the money so when I hand you a wreck I got for $25, you can't be upset because you willingly gave me the money to get your car understanding you would find out until you actually got it. I never said it would run, I didn’t say there wouldn’t be any rust on it. I didn’t say it would have windows.
Not the same? Well, when I hand a fifth of our nation's economy over to the government, you are right, it is much, much worse.
BTW, even the country's foremost authorities on our Constitution say the mainstream liberal view of Separation of Church and State is wrong but they don''t control the media now do they? Or the village idiots running the schools do they? AND it is not taught in school, along with other things that aren’t taught such as the 3 R's, American History, Law and Economics…But our kids know how to put condoms on cucumbers thanks to the village idiots!!
Government is the root of all evil today; not parents, not the family or their belief in God. Politicians of all parties; governments of all nations. They all work hand in hand to exploit and confiscate the average person's wealth and freedoms by playing identity politics and using fear. They market it and you willingly drink the Kool-Aid that they spew rather than find out for yourselves! You let them dictate all the terms. I don’t and never will.
And this is exemplified in Judy Amendt’s “I thought it takes a village to raise kids?” Judy, according to who??? Not my parents, not my wife and me; only people drinking the Kool-Aid dispensed by the village idiots!
WAKE UP AMERICA; THINK FOR YOURSELF!!!