re: #320 MandyManners

The issues his teacher laid out the other day flipped me out in that kids nowadays are expected to have the skills we needed in the seventh or eighth grade.

Yeah, I noticed that when I was teaching. It was terribly amusing when parents asked me how I put up with them some days. I said….”they’re KIDS”.

So much has gone into treating them like mini adults, without actually teaching them or training them how to be adults AND taking into account that it takes years to make them that way. I mean, when I hear parents now talk about kids dating in grade 4 or 5, my first reaction was “Grade 4 or 5, girls had cooties!”