I have seen some pretty terrible behavior by inner city parents lately and I have to know if this is seen in the small towns and suburbs.
Do parents feel the need to fight children?
I guess that is my question.
Do the adults outside the inner city have such poor self control, such an incorrect upbringing, such poor social skills and decision making that when a high school kid says something they don't like that the only solution is to physically fight them?
Yes, I am not speaking for ALL inner city parents...but how many times:
1. Do parents come to a child's school to fight other kids? I don't even want to guess how many times that has happened in MPS. Happened at Bradley Tech every time the fights make the paper. I would guess parents have been arrested for fighting students between 60 and 100 times this year throughout MPS.
2. Do parents fight student spectators at a high school basketball game?
This is a behavior that has exploded in the last few years. Maybe the parent, who is only 30 with a kid in high school, is not mature enough to be a parent.
Wednesday, January 17, 2007
I need to know
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Scorpion says---
Children reflect the actions and mimic the example given them by the
adults they deal with and live with each day.Last night at the MPS
basketball game I attended there was a near brawl.Security stepped in quickly,and got it under control
quickly. This sounds good,except for the fact that only about thirty
people were in the stands,and at least half of them entered the fracas immediately. The really sad part was players and managers left the court to "back up" the adults they knew in the mess.No one was ejected,no one was asked to leave the game.Any punishments here? I
guess because it ended as fast as it began and no fist fights occurred people were given yet another chance.Imagine that! In forty years of high school basketball I had never seen players leave the game to enter an argument.Suppose I'll see something
new again at my next game. Imagine
that! Won't see nothing in the news anywhere today about this.Just
another occurrence in MPS.
It is rare, but it happens. Or at least you'll see parents fighting amongst themselves or with refs or coaches. It isn't the age of the parent, it's the upbringing and personal character of the parent. It's disgusting and the sad part is that my first feeling is that they need their asses kicked. But arrest, conviction and sentencing is totally appropriate and necessary.
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