It's more than parenting, that's why I brought up the not so good changes in society as a whole. I'm sure you see that too though.

Society has changed a lot over the decades, and not all of it is for the best.

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Whew! Nothing like making me sweat bullets in the last couple of minuets! :lol2:

Not that it needs to be said, but, COWARD!

I would have said Knotty Pine, but since you're buying for 5....

Are teachers paid during summer? I really don't know. What I do know is that they are grossly underpaid for what they do, especially nowadays. Many of them get summer jobs to supplement the time off teaching. Also, they spend much of the summer attending meetings and developing school curriculum. Add to all this that a lot of parents these days treat them like a babysitter, expecting them to raise their kids for them.

I think it's much more than any one thing. There is no doubt though that there is something drastically different in a very bad way with these kids. Now, that's not to say it's the whole generation, of course. In fact, it's a very small percentage. But something has gone horribly wrong with them and I'm afraid it's not going to end anytime soon.

NHL - By far my favorite sport. I'm a Lightning fan first and foremost but I will watch any teams play. I love the action and the talent these guys have is unbelievable! Playoffs are even more intense. Absolutely riveting sport to watch, televised or in person. College Football - Mainly a Notre Dame fan but I watch just about any college matchup out there, particularly the SEC, but any conference will do. College Hockey - Mostly a Notre...

Now, if you would have said the NHL playoffs are going on, and this is all that anyone cares about, you'd be on to something. Nobody cares about those other three things... :lol2:

Apparently no one wants to win at home in this series. :idunno: I hope that changes tonight!

I wish we knew. I can't understand what has changed in them over the last several decades.

They're basically part time as you likely know. According to their website, the Guard responds to domestic emergencies, overseas combat missions, counterdrug efforts, reconstruction missions and more. Guard Soldiers’ primary area of operation is their home state. I was pretty much spit-balling when I made the suggestion. I don't know that it's a viable solution. BigVMan23 certainly doesn't think it's a good idea. He may be 100% correct, I...

The way it's always been. Honestly, I don't get how people get so bent and butt hurt over the older generation giving them a bit of a hard time. Never known a generation that didn't hear it. Completely the norm.

Could we train a certain percentage of the National Guard to do the job, having rotating shifts? Just a thought, not sure if it's a good one.

It has been my fear for years now that we would start seeing this. I agree, sickening.

Fair enough. It just seems we will always disagree with what needs to be done. I don't see that changing. Sad, but true.

True, but no one really seems to work hard enough to try to find good, agreeable, real solutions. I honestly don't know if there are any.

I agree.

It's no different from when I was young. You just see and hear more because of social media. Add to it that some draw more attention to themselves than what you would have seen back in the sixties and seventies and it seems worse. It really isn't. I think most of the young generation are hard working like their older generation counterparts. The odd ones get and draw more attention to themselves because of the internet and 24/7 news cycle.

I really don't know what can be done to stop this insanity. I just don't get what's causing all of this.

Do you think professor Warnick has a point that there's a different value system at suburban schools? Do you give his comment "Self-discovery and individual expression aren't necessarily bad things, but for certain troubled young men who harbor deep resentment of the system that rejected them, there's no better way to express their true, tortured selves than through a dramatic act of violence. And the higher the body count, the more powerful the...

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What?! Not Five Finger Death Punch?!

Hope you had a great day, All State Baseball!

Exactly!

Yeah right, we never heard any of that when we were young... :lol2: Come on, it was constant.

Yep. What generation didn't get made fun of by the older generation? I sure do remember it when I was younger. Never took any of it to heart. In fact, I used to get a kick out of it, they'd "insult" us, we would "insult" them. No one was upset or upright about it.

Happy Birthday, Ru!