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05-29-2008, 06:32 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: Waco, TX | | | Some "excitement" at my elementary school yesterday
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My class earned an extra recess not that long ago because of good behavior. Yesterday I took them outside to let them have at it in the afternoon. As I walk out I look across the soccer fields to this dead-end driveway that goes along between some little league fields and the school property (and is, I believe, part of our property) and there are 12 to 13 teenagers and adults gathered around and several of them are fighting. As I'm seeing this I look over and see some school maintenance men jump into their pickups and speed across the field towards the ruckus. I immediately pulled out my phone and called the local police. As the maintenance guys got there the fight sort of broke up and they started talking to someone. Then these two girls started going at it again punching each other as I'm talking to the dispatcher. Well one carload of people gets in their car and drives off just as I hang up. The other carload wasn't so lucky...4 cop cars pull up blocking their exit.
I talked to the maintenance guys and it turns out that the mothers of two of the teenage girls were over there...they had BROUGHT THEIR HIGH SCHOOL DAUGHTERS OVER TO THE EDGE OF OUR SCHOOL TO FIGHT!! Are you kidding me?! If anyone is wondering what's wrong with kids these days here is your answer - it's their parents.    
Unfortunately there wasn't much that could be done because there were no direct witnesses that could say who was fighting and one of the cars got away but the police were able to cite them for trespassing or something like that.
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05-29-2008, 06:35 AM
|  | That's the way uh huh uh huh I like it.. | | Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Robbinsville, NJ | | | What's really scary, is that this sort of bizarreness is not unusual. A few of my friends are teachers and there's not one who doesn't have a screwed up story that rivals that. Our society is going to hell in a handbasket..
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05-29-2008, 06:36 AM
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05-29-2008, 06:52 AM
| | Thor's Hammer 2.1.3beta | | Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: South Houston, TX | | Wow. Great role models those mothers are being... "Our kids want to fight?!?? Sure! Let's get 'em out of here and let 'em duke it out in front of little kids! Great idea!"
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05-29-2008, 07:35 AM
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05-29-2008, 07:37 AM
|  | Online | | Join Date: Apr 2001 Location: Sunapee, New Hampshire | | Quote:
Originally Posted by DigMe I immediately pulled out my......
If anyone is wondering what's wrong with kids these days here is your answer - it's their parents. | I was totally expecting you to say "gun" in that comment. Must have been all the "look at what I shot" threads you've created. 
I agree on the parents. Kids don't learn to act like they do on their own. They pick it up from the people they spend the most time around....their own parents.
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05-29-2008, 07:41 AM
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05-29-2008, 07:42 AM
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Originally Posted by DigMe Yesterday I took them outside to let them have at it in the afternoon. | I am bemused by this sentence... 
So - to me that means you took your class out to have a fight..?
As in "Let's have at it, sir..." ... 
But from the tone of you conclusion that seems unlikely! 
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05-29-2008, 07:44 AM
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05-29-2008, 08:14 AM
|  | I fling carrots | | Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: Make a left at the Taco Bell | | As someone with many years of experience as a Family Therapist, I've always said... Apple seeds breed apple trees. Period.
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05-29-2008, 08:15 AM
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Originally Posted by Bruce Lindfield I am bemused by this sentence...
So - to me that means you took your class out to have a fight..?
As in "Let's have at it, sir..." ...
But from the tone of you conclusion that seems unlikely! | I thought that too at first, but I understood after reading through again
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05-29-2008, 09:01 AM
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05-29-2008, 09:11 AM
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Originally Posted by Eric618 As someone with many years of experience as a Family Therapist, I've always said... Apple seeds breed apple trees. Period. | i think thats kind of narrow-minded view, especially for a Family Therapist. I've worked with family therapy groups, and while the parents have massive impact on the mores and other values of the child, no one is set in what they will become. in many cases the irresponsible behaviour of the parents can actually motivate the kids to be better people |
05-29-2008, 09:27 AM
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Originally Posted by sublime0bass i think thats kind of narrow-minded view, especially for a Family Therapist. I've worked with family therapy groups, and while the parents have massive impact on the mores and other values of the child, no one is set in what they will become. in many cases the irresponsible behaviour of the parents can actually motivate the kids to be better people | +1
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05-29-2008, 09:33 AM
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Originally Posted by sublime0bass in many cases the irresponsible behaviour of the parents can actually motivate the kids to be better people | That sounds like the exception rather than the rule. |
05-29-2008, 09:33 AM
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Originally Posted by sublime0bass i think thats kind of narrow-minded view, especially for a Family Therapist. I've worked with family therapy groups, and while the parents have massive impact on the mores and other values of the child, no one is set in what they will become. in many cases the irresponsible behaviour of the parents can actually motivate the kids to be better people | There are exceptions to every rule, but I wholeheartedly stand by my statement. There are all these programs out there designed to fix the behaviors (which are many times just symptoms) of children, when the core problem isn't addressed: The home, and more specifically, the parents. Regardless of what treatment modality is utilized, the majority of the child's life is spent in the home, with those parents.
I have worked with hundreds of families, and even more children in individual therapy. Of all of them I have worked with, less than 5% had competent, nurturing adults raising the kids.
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05-29-2008, 09:43 AM
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Originally Posted by need4mospd That sounds like the exception rather than the rule. | Very much so, in my opinion.
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05-29-2008, 10:08 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Toronto, Ontario Canada | | This reminds me of when I was in high school, these two boys had a bit of an argument going that week. One of their fathers found out about it and challenged the other kid to a fight.  |
05-29-2008, 10:36 AM
|  | The Lowdown Diggler | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Huntington Beach, CA | | | That sucks. Look on the bright side, at least you have parental involvement at your school. |
05-29-2008, 11:03 AM
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Originally Posted by MakiSupaStar That sucks. Look on the bright side, at least you have parental involvement at your school. |
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