Quote:In addition to the home, <del>public</del> <del>schools</del> public indoctrination centers are teaching and encouraging this kind of behavior.

 

Children are not taught about pride in their country and what this country has achieved in it's relatively short life-span.  They don't know or appreciate the enormous sacrifices that our forefathers went through or the generations before us went through in order to make this country what it is.

 

At the start of WWII, many real men as young as 15, 16 or 17 years of age lied about their age in order to sign up for military service.  That happened not only in that war, but in wars previous including the very war that won our freedom and the war that united us.

 

You won't see that nowadays.

 

Today our flag is burned and stomped upon, there are "protests" that take place that involve the destruction of both private and public property and this is deemed as "acceptable" by the far left in our population.  We've become an "entitled society" rather than a society of respect.

 

Kids today aren't taught about The Pledge of Allegiance and what it really means.  They aren't taught about why we stand up, place our hands over our hearts and/or salute during The National Anthem.  You constantly see comments about "old people annoying" somebody, yet those very "old people" probably sacrificed more so the young ignorant punk that makes a comment like that is able to and has the ability to do it.

 

As it relates to this thread, those kids should be punished by means that will help them, not harm them in the future.  Winger had it right.  Punish them by not only making them do something productive (community service), but also make them write an essay and force them to actually learn.  Something like that would change lives for the better and be beneficial to all.

I forget about schools being such an influence since I have never raised a kid to put through school. There are definitely more influences now than when we were kids. I remember when MTV in it's infancy freaked the adults out because of the bad influences. But it was okay to watch Archie Bunker. No one could pay me enough to raise a kid in our bat poop crazy society. I think I can understand why a lot of folks I know homeschool their kids.

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