Revolting teenagers.

[terbang]

A couple of days ago one of my daughters friends got bottled at school. He got a nasty slash down his face that required quite an embroidery job to repair. At Waiuku college there is a fairly high degree of unrest between various ethnic groups and this incident was a result of such tension. A particular group of lads have been running roughshot on other pupils for some time now. In todays PC world the punishment for the attackers (3 of them from this particular group) was only 2 days suspension. A group of kids compained to the school that the punishment hardly fitted a crime of scarring someone for life and as usual the compaints fell on deaf ears. Today a group of children (My Daughter, subversive little bugger she is, included) staged a walk out of the assembly and formed a picket outside the school. This was in protest to the level of violence that seems to go unchecked and the lack of real discipline at the school. They just don't want to have to put up with this gang of shitheads anymore. The protest gathered momentum and before long around 250 kids walked out of class and protested including the head boy and girl. The cops were called by the teachers who were unprepared for such civil unrest and had no Idea on how to handle it. The newspaper reporters turned up and so did TV 3 and quite a few people started asking questions as to WTF is going on at that school. The softcock headmaster is now stating that because it happened just outside the school gates (only a few metres) that it was ouside of his boundary of responsibility. So why the suspension..? All protesting children are now marked as truant and will also face punsihment. I guess that cant be that bad if they only dish out a minor suspension for bottling someone.
This is an interesting incident in that it highlights the fact that our youth are also getting sick of our PC society and are willing to have their say.
Quite frankly I agree with them and my wife Rachel (who is actually the truancy administrator at Waiuku college) and I support our daughter and her friends actions. Maybe the next generation isn't such a lost cause as we often accuse them of being.

[Nasty]

DId the initial kid who was bottled lay assult charges with the police ... even if it was around the school they have to take this seriously and put charges in if there is a complaint made.

[James Deuce]

Maybe the next generation isn't such a lost cause as we often accuse them of being.

They never are.

[ZorsT]

The principal of that school should not use the fact it was outside the gates as an excuse.

They always told us kids that they were responsible for us (and our safety) from when we leave for school, until when we get home

[Mom]

Today a group of children (My Daughter, subversive little bugger she is, included) staged a walk out of the assembly and formed a picket outside the school. The protest gathered momentum and before long around 250 kids walked out of class and protested including the head boy and girl. This is an interesting incident in that it highlights the fact that our youth are also getting sick of our PC society and are willing to have their say.
Quite frankly I agree with them and my wife Rachel (who is actually the truancy administrator at Waiuku college) and I support our daughter and her friends actions. Maybe the next generation isn't such a lost cause as we often accuse them of being.

Fantastic to read!! This sort of thing reassures me that we are in fact raising some thinking kids, not a bunch of drones/non participating ignorant kids.

Of course I dont mean the catalyst for the kids stepping up (that is another thing altogether) but to read that they have said "no more" and are prepared to face the consequences and taking a stand warms my heart no end.

Best of luck to them!

congratulations on raising a ..."subversive little bugger"

Mom

[N4CR]

the principal of that school should not use the fact it was outside the gates as an excuse.

they always told us kids that they were responsible for us (and our safety) from when we leave for school, until when we get home

that is correct.

my college had a race riot once chinks vs whiteys on the basket ball courts, rather hilarious but nothing like bottling people. that headmaster is in the **** now i'd say, good luck giving half the school detentions... hahahahaha what an *****.

well done to the kids for having the balls to do something about it, respect to them!

i work at a college also.

[Coyote]

They never are.

Hear hear

I'd be in the protest
Edit: not simply to get out of class

[Dafe]

Maybe us adults should learn from these kids!

[Toaster]

..... revolting teenagers...... pretty much says it all. I fear for what is becoming of our schools, kids, society, moral decay, violence etc. All the political softcock correctness is turning everything to "poo" because none gets propertly disciplined and there are no real punishments or consequences dealt out for wrongdoing.

[Panther]

the PC society that my parents generation has created for us is a load of ****
bring back the cane in class rooms
my mum was way too soft on me, i dont care if she thinks her mum an dad were too harsh and she had a tough life, riding to school on her 175 twin, im gonna be tough on kids, what happened to the days whe you were scared of your parents, and that fear translated into respect?

[Wasp]

Maybe the next generation isn't such a lost cause as we often accuse them of being.

I sure as hell ain't

during my last years of school I soon realised that a "heads down keep the fuck out of everyone who is bigger than me way" approach was needed.

[terbang]

Maybe us adults should learn from these kids!

Us parents, having being pummelled for way too long, by the very PC machine that we, our generation, produced have become immune to it. We need to take a close look at how our kids view the legacys we leave them and encourage them to make some hard choices.

[Motu]

Each generation gives their offspring an easier time than they had...it's only natural.My parents childhood ('20's and '30's) was pure hell...my mother used to talk about her father using a stock whip on the kids,she was even shot at,hearing the bullet go over her head.She used the ''wooden spoon'' on us,and most likely thought she was giving us an upbringing in paradise.So long as there is communication issues can be sorted.....

[Quartermile]

There is alot of PC bullsh!t going around lately and I can easily see the effect it had on my school (no longer go there) but the 'respect' that Sallo states is missing from the classroom.

Although don't get me wrong I loved running rings around my teachers really you shouldn't be able to do that especially at college!!

[Panther]

thats whys colleges are turning out so many dumb ***** cos they don't bother to pay attention in class, learn anything, do any work, learn work ethic etc, can't get past dumbed down 5th form.
bring back the cane and the electric chair.
all comes down to respect for elders.
PC allowed kids to back chat in class, abuse the teachers and behave in ways that they would not infront of their parents. and teachers cant do jack. if they try and do anything they get narked on for sexual abuse or end up crying.
Thanks helen for keeping my generation real, real little shits.