Originally Posted by CBreezy

I have a lot of friends and family in the teaching and coaching professions. I've had parents gang up on coaches and teachers when the "angel" senior gets replaced by an all-star underclassman. Little Judy deserves to be the star in high school and it's not fair that some stupid sophomore took her place. Or perhaps the parent of the child who gets a B and is mad because Johnny won't get into Harvard now. It's not that the kid didn't try, it's that the teacher graded him unfairly and is purposely trying to end his life by giving him bad grades.

There is no accountability for many of today's youth. I know of stories where parents go to college professors and insist that their child would NEVER drink underage and always turns in his homework on time. We are depriving our children of important life lessons. Instead, we are instilling in them a sense of entitlement. Yes, we, the older generations are to blame for this entitlement that we all complain about. We are telling them that they can have everything and instead of encouraging hard work, we complain to the authorities that they aren't giving their kind a fair of enough chance.

I think the more telling of this litigious society is that, as an adult, I can't even look at a child the wrong way without the parents thing I'm trying to molest them. I've had a child come up to me and randomly try to give me a high five and I'm so afraid of an irrational reaction from a parent that I just sit and smile. The percentage of predators in this soceity is SO small yet we are so afraid of children so we aren't falsely accused.