ok, i am just a kid myself, but what annoys me is other kids in school that say "i hate bush" or "i hate kerry" and they make long speeches about it. it annoys me because, neither they or i know anything about it. well mostly, soem of those weird kids that watch the news all thi time and study up on it. but its just annoying, they have no clue what is good and bad for the nation and the economy, i think its parents... my parents talk abotu it and i just tune them out, because i am not 18 and i dont need to know about it. i have confronted a few students, and they throw the regular line "i do to know abotu it" or as i have also gotten "i know more about it than you" i mean come on, i am a kid and i find this annoying. i think parents should sit their kids down, and as them what they know about politics, i would say "erm...the president?" and that is it. kids hear their parents and then go out and repeat what they say to sound cool or intellignt. thanks.
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Allow me to say congrats on behave of learning to think for yourself at a younger age!\n\nNow just know that it is normal fo kids to start off believeing everything the parents say, then they get into the world and opinions may change and they may not.  You seem to "not care" but you are also informed, so once again congrats!
548413
here's a piece of advice....learn how to spell and have good grammar\n\ndon't give America's youth advice talking/typing like that...they are in enough trouble as it is...
105544
As a teacher, I agree for the most part.  Spelling and grammar are horrible, and it's not just from the kids.  I don't think spell checkers should be outlawed though- they'll never know how to spell if they can't see it spelled correctly.  The thing that bothers me the most is how simple the Q's often are.  How stupid do you have to be to NOT know how to find the answers?  I'll give them the algebra- that can be difficult.  It's still stupid to ask for the answers if you're not going to know HOW to solve them though, which will be reflected on their test scores.  The greatest gift we can give them is the information on HOW to find their answers.  You don't have to know everything- you just have to know where to find everything.  Now I'll get off MY soapbox.  I actually used the phrase "greatest gift."  Ugh.
480944
I think that you're starting to see some resentment from younger people in the country, but I seriously doubt that anyone would take that kind of initiative for protests.  There have been nationwide protests of the Iraq war in the past, but they didn't get nearly as much media attention as Vietnam protests did.  I think that young people today are also a little bit more worried about things.  Personally, I'm in school full time and work a full time job.  As much as I'd like to get involved on something like that, I simply can't afford to walk away from my job and continue to pay for school.  I think that a lot of people my age are in similar positions.  Back then, it was a lot easier to get away with something like that because a college degree was not a requirement to having a successful future.  If I took any time off school, I would suddenly become an older student and less appealing to employers once I earn my degree.  There's simply too much at stake.
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I hate the word "Whatever" when used as a phrase!  My kids were in their teen years when it became popular, and THAT was always the answer to anything I told them to do, or when I was getting on to them for doing something wrong!!  And they didn't use it nicely, but aggressively, or sarcastically!!\n\nGGGRRRRRRR!  If ONE word could make me see red...THAT was the word!  Thank goodness they're grown up now, and rarely use it!
488040
The whole situation is rediculous.\n\nIt's like a school teacher complaining because she doesn't like kids.
336792
Kudos for this question!\n\nWhen I read through some of the questions and answers on here, I often find myself grinding my teeth in frustration over the spelling and grammar of too many postings. It seems to me people lack pride, or they don't realize they are presenting themselves to the entire world as illiterate idiots. I also think too many kids/young adults today believe dumb is "cool" - guess what, kiddos, it's not!\n\nBut then again, after seeing a public school teacher (of all people!) in a news interview several years ago say that for her job, "I teaches English," I shouldn't be surprised....
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They have no clue to what fair represents.\n\nOh please, below me, how come they never mention what slu** Bush has for daughters, but they picked on poor Chelsea who did nothing but get good grades and listen to her Parents. \n\nExplain that one eh!\n\nIt's the other way around, you people run and hide and are in the most denial of anyone I've come across.
77113
What is annoying to me is when my kid's say MOM and I say what, and they say MOM and I say what and they say MOM and I say what and they say MOM and so on and so on and sometimes I scream What and they say never mind I forgot...uhhhh..love them but that's so annoying...
486301
OOH!!! I HATE IT BECAUSE IF YOU DON'T TRY TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE DON'T COMPLAIN. AND ITS ALWAYS PEOPLE WHO THINK THEY KNOW IT ALL BUT ARE IGNORANT TO THE IMPORTANT STUFF. BLAH BLAH BLAH SHUT UP ALREADY AND STOP COMPLAINING AND VOTE!
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read. a lot. and counter their oppinions.. there comes a sad day when parents finally have to admit that their children know as much/more than they do...\n\ni switched my parents, but it took a good long time... and a lot of research.. even though pops still calls himself republican he at least didn't vote for this babboon...\n\nand thank you thank you thank you for not being another ignorant rich kid spouting daddy's politics that they know nothing about... \n\nhere's to a prettier future...
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I am not close to being an expert, but let me just say this. I am 35 and I am a single mother of three kids. I have a fifteen year old, a six year and a four year old. So I have only two of them in school right now.\n\nMy 15 year old son is on honor roll and my six year old daughter just received high honors. \n\nI am not bregging but only trying to paint a picture. I do not force any kind of studying habits. I think my success has been mostly more about how I raise and communicate with them.\n\nGrowing up I have never talked baby talk with any of them and they all talked exceptionally well when they were little. So well to the point people would always ask how does you little girl or boy talk so well, they are using sentences and they are so tiny.\n\nMy son has told me that the reason everything comes so easy to him is because half of the things he studys in school are things that I have included in everyday conversation with him so he already knows about it and it gives him the opportunity to participate in conversation in class and it makes him strive more when he knows about it and the teacher is impressed.\n\nIf my kids have a question while watching tv I answer it and bring up other things in relation. If they don't want to watch the news I don't have a problem with that, I watch and telll them later about all the things that are going on.\n\nMy son told me at school for his graduation they played a movie they made of all the major news and events that happened in the past decade and when they showed things like Tim Mcvey, Jon Bonet or even the last space shuttle that blew up and he said that after the movie his friends were saying they didn't even know who or what half the things in the video were.\n\nMy son's comment was "Don't these kids parents talk to them?"
257138
Yhea, they are annoying.  But if you think about it, no one really knew what they were doing when they were a tween or teen.  At that stage in life we're all just trying things out in an attempt to find out who we are.  It drives me nuts when kids think that they're goth, emo, or punk, but then I remember all the stages that I went through, and I realize that they can pretend to be whatever they want.  Its just important to make a distinction between the real thing and teen rebellion.
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First of all, dumbasses, I don't think nitai777 is from our wonderful country or he/she would not be saying "Why are you", or saying "Mr. Bush" as opposed to "President Bush" or spelling Iraq in a non-English manner.  Did you know that in other languages they use other words?  Idiots.\n\nHe or she asked a legitimate question that deserves an honest answer instead of getting on a soap box to bash liberals or conservatives.\n\nThe answer is they are trying to help.  Right or wrong, whether we agree with them or not, they are trying to help, and no matter what political side we are on, or how we feel about the President (I personally think he's a greedy idiot) or war in general, the young men and women are just trying to help the people over there.
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I read no evidence where they had a cause for hating you, and people seldom waste a lot of time and energy on people they don't like.  Perhaps they are getting a response from you that tickles them, so they make juvenile efforts for more amusement.  When they make remarks about your friends, tell them you don't want to listen and say, "I don't listen when anyone talks about you."  Strive to treat them as friends, even when they don't act like it, and the situation may reverse itself.  If not, and you get no response from the teacher, enlist the aid of your parents in talking with her or him, and then, if necessary, it is a chain of command thind: Principal, Board of Education, etc.  Recent laws should aid you in getting attention to your problem.  Good luck, and remember, the best way to get rid of an enemy, is to make a friend of them.
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This is what s wrong with the world. kids being taught to turn against their parents. They are told to turn mom in if they think she is doing drugs. This smoking thing. They are told that punishment is bad, and they should turn their parents in for punishing them. They are told that winning isn't evrything, and as such, many childs sports programs no longer keep score. There are no winners, no losers. This kind of stuff is wrong. We are raising a socitey of kids to become weak, wishy washy people who will sell out friends and family the minute something doesn't go their way.\nI think we should bring back spankings. I think we should take back the right to raise our own kids the way we see fit. They are ours. No one else should be able to tell me what to do if junior comes home late, or smarts off and talks back to me.\nBetter stop now, before I rant for pages and pages. You get my point though.
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looking at no child left behind... I almost start to wonder if this isn't trying to destroy an already underfunded education system... \n\nWith no public education...the wealthy would be the only ones that could afford to become educated and then keep control of their wealth through that control of education... \n\nah... capitalism at it's best...\n\nDon't you just love how freetyme813 insults basically every American with his rants on public school... almost everyone attends public school and if we're all that "stupid" then why did the majority vote for conservatives?\nTest scores are at all time highs... so if he's calling today's kids dumb... and you graduated a long time ago like I did... then he's calling all of us really dumb....\nI think we all know who the "dumb" one is here...\nSorry we didn't go to private school because our daddy was rich like you apparently did... some of us have to actually work for what we have...