To most high school students in the north end: Grow the fuck up.
Seriously, I’ve never seen a larger bunch of students so immature in my life, and I’ve worked in a school before. You’re all treating the city like a playground or, worse yet, as a spittoon. I purposefully delay my lunch when I need to go out because I am tired of having to plug my ears to protect them from the shrilly screams of the students running around the fast food places like they were four year olds in a play pen.
You’re not cool because you run in and out of McDonald’s screaming for a dollar, and you’re not cool because you can spit the most while waiting at the bus home. No wonder today’s youth is getting such a bad rap: it’s because you deserve it for your appalling behaviour.
This article appears in Apr 3-9, 2008.
Soooo true. ‘Speak when spoken to’…what? ‘Show respect for elders’….what? When I was that age (and I’m certainly not 100, so it’s gone down hill FAST), you showed some freakin respect & had manners. And take it even a step further – 15 going on 6, dressing like 29 year old prostitutes. Gross.
I feel sorry for them because they have no idea they are behaving so deplorably, I mean really what kind of role models are they presented with? Rap videos that teach girls dressing that way makes you beautiful and desirable…it’s sad really. They teach kids that it is ok and cool to completely disregard the law and even that basic courtesy is for losers…they talk about regulating violent video games and yet they let 11 year olds watch that filth.
The best part is that in 2 or 3 years some them will actually be in university, well, St.Marys… but still a university nonetheless.
It’s irritating isn’t it. Loud and obnoxious and immature. Not to mention it makes you look like trash.
I really think we need to think about the generation raising these children…like the kids had a choice in how they were raised.
How true Jane. I think the role models have to be the parents first. As a step father to an 11 year old boy, I know what kind of negative media is out there from music videos to videogames. As a parent, it’s my responsibility to monitor what my stepson is exposed to, but further to that, also field any questions he may have and explain why he cannot watch certain movies or play Halo. I know for a fact that not all parents monitor their kids this way as he has all kinds of friends that are allowed to do stuff he is not. Parenting is hard but rewarding work but work none the less, and I think it’s a lack of parenting that directly leads to most of the behavioral issues we see in todays kids.