What's wrong with this generation? "68 year old bullied by teenagers"

“It is not our part to master all the tides of the world, but to do what is in us for the succour of those years wherein we are set, uprooting the evil in the fields that we know, so that those who follow may have clean earth to till. " - J.R.R Tolkein.


Obviously there has been a failure in parenting here.
What happened can't be justified by saying that it's HER fault that she wasn't able to control the kids. The kids shouldn't have been behaving like that in the first place.


I was raised to respect my elders, and though we did some crazy shit when we were in school, we would never do something like this. It was simply unimaginable.


But where I come from, teachers and parents are allowed to punish students. If you didn't do your homework, did something wrong, were disrespectful, you got punished. And I'm talking about corporal punishment here. From getting hit on the knuckles to getting whipped on the butt.


Can you imagine the kind of backlash there would have been against this woman if she had slapped the kid and put him in his place? But you're not allowed to even touch the kids in America. Otherwise bad things happen to you. She'd have lost her job. There would have been an investigation and everyone would have said she wasn't fit to be a monitor.


Different people have various levels of tolerance. Who knows what she was going through? But there is NOTHING in this world that can justify telling a woman who's son committed suicide "your family killed themselves because they didn't want to be with you"


Children these days grow up feeling that they can do anything. There is a huge failure in parenting if children are under the impression that being disrespectful is okay.
When I was a kid, I was punished when I did something wrong. These kids are not.
Spare the rod, spoil the child.


On a side note- the collection for Karen has reached $480,000. God does indeed work in mysterious ways.