Killing time when there's not much news

[P1tchblack]

Keep in mind that these kids are 6 years old.

Story 1:

My wife teaches first grade and on the first day after the Thanksgiving break, she gets a call from the office saying that her student "Sarah's" sister is taking care of Sarah for awhile, but that my wife isn't allowed to tell her any school related information because the sister isn't legally a guardian.

As it turns out, both of "Sarah's" parents overdosed over the Thanksgiving break and apparently the father actually died for some period of time, but was brought back by EMT's.

Story 2:

There are a lot of group homes in the district where my wife teaches.  She has a hispanic student who lives in a group home.  He brought in his personal journal from home and was writing in it when students were supposed to be writing in their class journal.  Upon inspection, my wife found a LOT of disturbing images the student has drawn.  Some were giant d!cks with semen coming out.  Some were people with "X" for eyes, pointing guns at their heads or crotch area.  I don't remember the details, but when asked about the images, he bluntly said exactly what it was, including one that was, as he described it, a ni**er.

Again.... 6 year old kids.

[Alabuckeye]

Psychological treatment is going to be a massive growth field over the next decades for what we are doing to our young.

One son is in a family & marital counseling track another is in a trauma counseling track. I suspect they will never lack for work

[Conanthelibrarian]

Most of us grew up in normal, semi-loving households.

Those of us that did cant really understand what some kids deal with on a daily basis, things that would destroy us.

I sometimes feel that God put me in the field he did just to show me what life can be like and to develop a healthy amount of empathy.

[P1tchblack]

Most of us grew up in normal, semi-loving households.

Those of us that did cant really understand what some kids deal with on a daily basis, things that would destroy us. 

I sometimes feel that God put me in the field he did just to show me what life can be like and to develop a healthy amount of empathy.

Yep.  You have kids that act out during class and the natural inclination is frustration, anger and consequence.  Then you hear what their home life is like.....

[Hightop77]

I hear about this stuff.  Friend of mine started doing substitute teaching in the Dallas area.  Most of the kids in her classes, young teens who are obviously not the cream of the crop, could literally be classified as savages and unfit to live a civilized society.  She is already thinking about quitting because she is afraid of some of the students and she already figured out she will be thrown under the bus if a problem arises.  She said one started masturbating in class.  All the administrators want is to avoid the negative publicity that any type of attempt to discipline might bring.  Basically let them do what they want as long as no one gets hurt or the police have to come.  This is what the cultural Marxists want.  A total upheaval of the previous white Christian culture including the family structure.  Of course if she brought a Bible in and started reading a Psalm, the school system would come crashing down on her. This country is focked and only the blind and foolish don't see it.

[P1tchblack]

Story #3:

My 8th grade son went to his first dance - Winter Formal.  It was a mix of 7th and 8th graders.  Apparently a number of kids were thrown out of the dance.  Several girls tried to smuggle alcohol in their purses.  Some boys were AirDropping (iPhone utility for sharing docs via bluetooth) nudes  AND taking up-skirt pics of girls with their phones.

[Alabuckeye]

This is what you get when you take a sledgehammer to a countryâ€s moral foundation.

Yeah, I know. Weâ€ve screwed up a lot along the way. No one is saying weâ€ve been perfect. Remove the importance of mom and dad? Remove the importance of marriage? Even when studies show that both are critical to a healthy childhood?

Welcome to our devolution

[maize]

I remember people smuggling in booze to our HS dances or just showing up already drunk, but not at the middle school dances. I guess that could have been going on, but I didn't know about it. Airdrop wasn't a thing when I was in MS/HS, so that wasn't a problem. Very, very few had camera phones in MS as those were just starting to become a thing. I don't think anyone was doing that, it would have been a blurry pic anyways.

[Smoothmflikethat]

This is what you get when you take a sledgehammer to a countryâ€s moral foundation.

Yeah, I know. Weâ€ve screwed up a lot along the way. No one is saying weâ€ve been perfect. Remove the importance of mom and dad?  Remove the importance of marriage?  Even when studies show that both are critical to a healthy childhood? 

Welcome to our devolution

This X 1,000

There is no factor that you can find anywhere in sociological study that has the positive effect that being raised by married parents has on outcomes for children.

Nothing else even approaches it.

If you're advocating for the future of children without pushing traditional marriage then you either know nothing of what you speak or you just aren't serious.

[unc4corners]

Technology. You would think we'd be getting smarter as a country but we are only going downhill and fast.
We are headed to a one world currency too. Read you Bible and see what's happening. It tells you plainly.

[P1tchblack]

Technology.  You would think we'd be getting smarter as a country but we are only going downhill and fast. 
We are headed to a one world currency too.  Read you Bible and see what's happening.  It tells you plainly.

Technology and lack of parenting because parents spend their time scrolling on TikTok and let technology raise their kids.

[Blinky]

When I was in middle school I went to Wellington, which was a private school in Upper Arlington, and we had combined dances with Columbus School for Girls and Columbus Academy. 

Man, those CSG girls were horny as hell. It was like it was the first time they ever saw a guy before. 

[unc4corners]

When I was in middle school I went to Wellington, which was a private school in Upper Arlington, and we had combined dances with Columbus School for Girls and Columbus Academy. 

Man, those CSG girls were horny as hell. It was like it was the first time they ever saw a guy before. 

Let me guess.  One of those private white, liberal and trainny schools? 

[dkeener67]

When I was in middle school I went to Wellington, which was a private school in Upper Arlington, and we had combined dances with Columbus School for Girls and Columbus Academy. 

Man, those CSG girls were horny as hell. It was like it was the first time they ever saw a guy before. 

Let me guess.  One of those private white, liberal and trainny schools? 

Very true about those CSG girls.  They weren't there because they were academic wizards or good girls.

[Blinky]

When I was in middle school I went to Wellington, which was a private school in Upper Arlington, and we had combined dances with Columbus School for Girls and Columbus Academy. 

Man, those CSG girls were horny as hell. It was like it was the first time they ever saw a guy before. 

Let me guess.  One of those private white, liberal and trainny schools? 

Columbus Academy, perhaps. They had just started accepting girls right around then, but it was still like 90% dudes. 

There were enough Academy girls to spoil the party. You couldn't just assume that all non-Wellington girls were CSG girls because there were a handful of Academy girls sprinkled in. While the CSG girls were like USC; all offense, no defense, the Academy girls were just the opposite. They were like Iowa. They wouldn't hang onto the ball, and you couldn't score on them.