We were also able to get away with a lot more shenanigans that they can today.

Agree with everything. But it doesn't help when the Administrators (Principals & Asst Principals) don't have the backbone to enforce consequences on these little darlings for continual bad behavior at the high school level. The teachers wind up spending most of their time in class dealing with behavior issues instead of teaching. Boils down to the Admins afraid to stand up to the parents.
If I got in trouble at school in the '60's & '70's I knew it was going to be a lot worse at home from my dad with the belt. Sure we had a few knuckleheads, but from my experience today there seems to be a large % of them in the classroom.

Good post and I agree parents are the issue. Too many mamby pamby window lickers that expect the school to raise their kids instead of jerking a knot in their tail when the kids need it. Schools now have to have a signed permission slip from the parents for corporal punishment. The kids who are taught to deal with discipline at home, aren’t often the trouble makers at school either.
I recently saw a prime example in my rural community. The school still has a respectable dress code and enforces it. New 2nd grade boy showed up wearing ear rings. Was told they did not comply with district dress code and he could not wear them at school. Momma and daddy threw a walleyed fit. Administration told them if putting earrings on their second grade boy was that important to them, they could home school. They pulled him out for two weeks. He came back last week, minus the jewelry in his ears. SMDH.

Agree with everything. But it doesn't help when the Administrators (Principals & Asst Principals) don't have the backbone to enforce consequences on these little darlings for continual bad behavior at the high school level. The teachers wind up spending most of their time in class dealing with behavior issues instead of teaching. Boils down to the Admins afraid to stand up to the parents.
If I got in trouble at school in the '60's & '70's I knew it was going to be a lot worse at home from my dad with the belt. Sure we had a few knuckleheads, but from my experience today there seems to be a large % of them in the classroom.

Umm, I'm currently a high school teacher, been in the industry for years, and I can tell you for a fact, that "kids are different," and much of it is because of what adults tolerate now.

Carl is somewhat correct, much to Vern's dismay.

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We are not the best teachers. Friends seldom look up from their cell phones the say good morning on my morning walks.

I think kids are different. They aren’t as mentally mature as they should be at pre teen years. I think that’s because of the hovering mothers and video games. I think the games mess with their brain. I’m speaking from personal experience. My boys are young and I limit their time to 30 minutes a day on video games after chores and homework. When they go to their grandparents for a weekend they are unmonitored on games. I can tell a difference. Discipline is not a problem at either house. I don’t put up with any bullsht and I know my old man doesn’t.

I also disagree with the post that it’s because of no spankings in school. I had spankings in school rarely and had some coaches that could hit pretty good but nothing like my old man. I wasn’t scared of a whipping, I acted good because that’s how I was supposed to act. None of them could compare to the 6’5” 250lb man that raised me. The only thing I ever got in trouble for at school was fighting and I never got a punishment for that at home.

I also think the school system is emasculating young men these days. Boys aren’t made to sit in a desk for hours, be monitored at lunch and then get a few minutes to run around with masks on and social distance after they get through eating every day. My youngest got involved in a fight last week because three kids spit in his smaller friends face and started pushing him around. My son was sticking up for his buddy and had to miss lunch and get another days lunch detention.

You're son did a good thing. Define "miss lunch", 'cause if they said your son couldn't eat, I'm comin' up there.

'Don't know you from Adam, but if half the stuff you post on here is true, I'd say that apple didn't fall from the tree.

Kids are changing because parents are changing. Parents are changing because the society is changing.

All by design of the evil one.

No grub for GW that day, but I don’t think the teachers knew because he didn’t say anything. That pissed me off but it did t seem to bother him too much. I let it go this time. The instigators got in much worse trouble. I know him and he’ll start a fight with his older brother for little reason at all with no chance of winning. He can handle himself and said he wanted to let it go. I’m just glad he was in the right.