Down and out

Where do young people learn right from wrong?

Most new parents are 20 to 30 years old. Their learning experience began about 1980 and continued to 2000. In that span of twenty years parenting was replaced by the "me first" philosophy, and children were turned over to schools for feeding (school breakfasts and lunches), no disipline (most bad behavior was excused), and judgement of merit (that is no longer necessary to attain the next grade level).

These young people passed through high school not knowing our country fought in Korea, how to spell "dictionary", or how to make change for a dollar bill. Then, they grew up to be parents themselves. The result should be no surprise.

Now, their children think of themselves FIRST. They've been taught that they are entitled to a ride a satin pillow through life. Interestingly, they show very little respect for their parents, or the schools, or any authority figures.

Public schools have proved to be a poor substitute for training behavior and setting the guidelines of right and wrong. By losing the work and reward satisdfaction of meritorious achievement to attain advancement, today's students do not graduate prepared for life experiences.

All of which is a tragedy of huge proportions.


Yet Americans still glide blissfully along as our abundance runs out and our much blessed society continues to fail.

We have only to watch the decline of Great Britain to see where we are headed.

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