Since the other topic was locked, I wanted to make my own. The usual responses to why kids are disrespectful now adays are typically things like:
Family unit is breaking down, teachers cannot physically beat kids anymore, schools do not have enough authority over the children, parents are not strict enough with their children, kids are not medicated enough, there isn't enough religion in schools, there is no enforced dress codes in many schools, there isn't enough funding etc etc.
Basically, the fact that children have any sorts of rights is what the problem is according to such folk. The concept is simple: lock the children up and beat them into law abiding citizens, drug them to be docile and agreeable, and most of all, teach them to follow authority.
I have a different reason for the decline of Americas youth in particular.
1. Children are treated like criminals, and they will in turn act like criminals. There is nothing that says "you are a criminal" more than locking a child up for the better half of the day. Once in school, kids form their own cliques (equivalent to prison gangs) and segregate themselves based on class, race etc.
2. Parents don't give a shit about their kids, mainly because there is a free daycare available. This free daycare is the public education system, which provides an opportunity to dump your kids off in jail all day, and incentivizes it. Have you ever wondered why the school day often starts at 7 in the morning, when studies show that children learn better when they actually get sleep? The reason why is because the parents need to be off to work by that time, so they need to be able to throw their kids in the daycare early in the morning. Nothing says "I don't give a shit about you" more than abandoning your child in a prison for the day.
3. Some kids aren't meant to be in school. Children are energetic, and they don't always sit in a desk for hours and hours when you want them to. Kids learn better at early ages, so you need to make sure you can mould their minds into the husks you want them to be early on, so instead of waiting for them to be mentally and emotionally mature enough for schooling, you chemically lobotomize them so they will comply with your demands easier.
4. School offers an opportunity to teach kids that nothing can ever be accomplished, and that life is a waste of time. Before anything of substance can be completed in the classroom, the bell rings and you are off to your next menial task. Basically, this is how the system turns kids into procrastinators. John Gatto, a former teacher of the year writes about the REAL lessons kids learn in the classroom. Instead of listing them all here, I will just direct you to this link.
5. Instead of gaining working experience and bonding time with their parents, children are forced to go to compulsory prison. At a young age, children should be working part time and learning important habits like the value of hard work and the value of money. After work, children should come home to a loving parent who homeschools them one on one and teaches them all the necessary fields of study. Instead of relegating the parenting of your child to a bunch of bureaucrats, a parent should stay home and affectionately guide their children, cultivating their interests and stirring their imaginations.
So what do you think of my reasons for the disrespectful youth, and my solutions I intermittently offered throughout? There are more, these are just the first five things I thought to write down.
