the crazy part is, they where 3rd graders! heres the link to a local news website: TheStar.com | World | Gr. 3 kids plotted to stab teacher, police say just imagine what these kids are going to do when they are older? i dont even want to think about it. what is todays worlds coming to?
I know most highschools in the city's have metal detectors at the doors now to prevent kids from brining in firearms and knifes and stuff... Im gunna laugh when they do this for the public schools! (Grade 1-8)
The metal detectors they use are not very good. Sometimes they can go off merely just because they get "echos" from concrete or tile floors. They would be much more accurate if they had these on a low wooden platform-which would reduce the echos. When I worked for the State as a Correctional Officer, we used the exact same kind of detectors-and sure enough, they were not accurate at all-sooooooooo, we still had to do 100% pat-searches.
Ham stringed by mega numbers of government "services", (who all know better than you how to raise children, and who work from a book of rules that's never written), (Whatever/whenever, not the same twice, yet never wrong), and walking on "egg-shells" in an attempt to stay out of jail, get fined, or have their children taken away (for their safety). People can't afford to stay home (not work)(if you do you will not have enough money to give them what they need (to develop/grow)(and again be in noncompliance of unwritten rules/opinion), and are (most of the time) too tired to interact/teach/supervise, so they have to sacrifice that needed family time by letting the Internet/TV/video games/piers be their mentor(s). Some work when they want/need more money, but still are concerned for their children's safety. Too "lazy", "greedy", or too "tired" to be around so this begot Nanny(ism). Someone to do the job of safety while you work for the big-3. After enough time (a blind man could see this coming), the only people this lot protects your children from is You ! Their agenda is "protection" not raising, that's still you, but now you have to do it according to their rules. You asked for it....You got it....hope it was worth it. The "Nanny's", leave no option, but to let them run wild, (discipline is abuse), and pay for what they destroy. Intervention into there private lives is damaging to their "self-esteem", and makes you a MONSTER ! If you want your kids around, and you want to stay out of jail, your only option to avoid the Nanny's is let them do what they want, and then tell them that was not nice, and deny them half of their dessert for one meal, and be on a Nanny "watch list" for life.
Heck, when I was growing up and when I screwed up, my Dad was not afraid to use a leather betl or a switch that he cut from a tree. Depending on how bad my Bros and I screwed up on somehting, the sentence was anywhere from 10 to 20 hits. No Police or DHS or CPS ever got involved. However, I know it's drastically changed even starting about 15-20 even 25 years ago. The worst sentence any of us had, was Restriction (after a whipping from the night before) and we could not step foot in the street i.e. could no go across the street to the park and play-or go to any friends house-next door or across the alley; but that never stopped us from leaving anyway. But since both parents worked, we knew what time they got home from work (most of the time) we'd do "our thing" and then made sure we were back home slightly before 5 PM. On 1 or 2 occasions, my Dad would have come home early and surprised us by doing so. Again we were given a dosage of pain, then sent to our rooms till supper, given all kinds of BS chores to do, restriction from watching TV for a period of time-stuff like that. However, that still never stopped us from "messing around" when they were gone. Hell yeah we disobeyed (as all kids are bound to do when told no on something) but, we never got into any serious trouble except for one time my nextdoor neighbor Robert Klassen, and a brother of mine-were cought trying to steal a Pellet Gun from a Krogers Grocery Store and were cought by the Police.
True enough, but then is not now....and how! I'm not at all surprised at 3rd grade. Kids about (even) 7 and more get programed to assert themselves under the protection of the Nanny's. Ever hear..."You're not the boss of me." ? "I'll call the cops." ? Of course you have, they all do it at least once, some do it till they're 50 (the PC crowd). Their teachers don't tell them to, but they do tell them they can & should if anything happens. A good thing gone over the top! All allegations "have to" be investigated, even deliberate, malicious, vendictive false ones. This is their weapon, and they know it. Shortages in coaches, Church Sunday School teachers, big brothers/sisters, mentors, tutors, day care and the rest are DIRECTLY attributable to this guilty till proven innocent "Feeding Frenzy" of Nanny(ism). Oh sure, the liar gets reprimanded, but pardoned until/if they do it again, which is a joke. Because, they can easily get someone else (close to them)(father/mother/friend/teacher/cousin etc.) to do it again & again &. Shortages in people (who will no longer take the chance, because of these rules), drive people apart, and promote apathy towards getting involved. For the simple reason of getting dragged down into it / with it. I once heard a woman say that she didn't like her neighbor, and because she had kids, she was going to call CFS on her. This is wrong on so many different levels, yet is condoned, and even hailed as the "PC" & heroic thing to do. It is being used as a weapon for attack, not (for the majority of the time) to defend/protect as it was meant for. Better safe than sorry....?, or better sorry than sorry? If these people are so hot, I'd like to find out how that Jon Benet Ramsey case is going? It's been 12 years? Any clues yet? How many pensions earned since then? How well did you protect her? Favorite joke on this issue.... A department store Santa has a little boy on his lap and says, "and what would you like for Christmas my good man?" Little boy replies, "Give me 50 dollars or I'll tell my mom you pinched my Bum."
One thing that rips my asp raw is, to see children with cellphones and such. That stuff should not be allowed in schools. Whatever happened to paying .25 cents for a phonecall using a pay phone?
Indeed. There should be a "Hat check girl" at the entrance to deposit all their guns, knives, drugs, and cell phones at the door. All Nanny approved of course, they're just trying to express themselves. We don't control you outside of this place, but in here is our house. There is no control or punishment that isn't a joke (for kids) nowadays, (juvy hall?), only terrorism from Nanny's if you try to implement some. Remember kids...free play station 3 for any of you that makes allegations against a family member. If you need help, we'll provide the scenario, acting lessons, and the rehearsal time/hall. Don't worry about proof (we'll plant that), and either they'll confess to whatever we invent, or we'll bankrupt/blackball them with constant harassment, missed work, and court appearances....till they "plea bargain" to a lesser offense (just to get rid of us), agree to counseling (for nothing), and we'll get a bigger budget next year so we can do the same stuff to even more people. I've seen this act repeated too many times, with too many people, since Clinton and the Democrats. It's the exact same C#@P every time, and no one seems to remember seeing the same thing yesterday. Nothing but DENIAL. Why? Oooh, let's not talk about it, it's a taboo. Maybe it will get better on its own. Haaaaa, it will get worse ! What's that word that starts with "N", ends with "i", has 4 letters in it and a "z" in the middle somewhere ?
I think video games with violence have also had an effect. I thought the pc crowd got carried away when they first talked about the violence in movies, but it has got more extreme and instead of it being in movie theatres they are on our televisions. The war movies always showed the effect of the violence and killing as did westerns, some of the shows now don't seem to do that. The video games now have kids of all ages playing at killing without a consequence - death isn't real. Perhaps its an effect of the lack of community that has also occurred. Children at school hear that so and so's grandparent died, but because the grandparent is not part of their community it has not personal effect on them - and quite possibly even the grandchild barely knows the grandparent. Some kids don't have pets either so they never make an emotional bond to another person/creature that can be severed by death, so they never learn the emotional consequence of death. While our world has become smaller in the sense of communication like this that links many of us from different countries and places, we also see a disconnect between families, neighbourhoods, and communities. It was the emotional disconnect from others that led to the horrors of the Second World War. It was also the abdication of personal responsibility and the willingness to let the state do it all. George Orwell's 1984 sometimes seems too possible.
The thing I have always found amazing is the fact that since the dawn of time humans having been punishing there kids via the parents usually with force, and only now it is considered wrong and immoral and bad for the development of the child. So it wasnt good enough for the past 1000 generations?
It's a rotten subject, but it's always been here. The point I was trying to convey, is that in all their projected "Glory", overly advertised common sense/decency, their vigilante (everyone's a cop), tattle-tail/snitch, ceaseless/careless fabrications, blatant/showy over-reacting ......... Through their Pseudo expertise, abuse of power, unforgiving "Backseat-Driver isms" ...... The "Cure" is worse than the "Disease"
and when you think of it, All of these school shootings and stuff weren't a problem back then either where they? hmm... Maybe parents should brake out the ol' belt!
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