Currently my sister and I are working in different elementary schools. Me in MD and my sister in NC. I've student taught and volunteered and worked in many different schools. The kids are all the same.

They just don't care anymore. The parents don't care. Having a kid suspended or sitting on the wall for recess no longer works since parents are not doing their job. Thus these kids think they can get away with anything.

I hear second grade boys telling girls to suck their "you know what". It's sad. Back in my day it was unheard of to even think about talking back to a teacher. What a lot of schools do now is instead of a kid being flat out bad they put a behavioral label on them as an excuse. These kids get everything. I had to take away an iPhone from a 5th grader the other day. They have myspaces and facebooks. I know it's not every parent but a majority of it is.

Sorry for the long rant. It's just a sore subject.