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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP here. Thanks for the responses. At least I'm not alone. The behavior is so bad, it's not as though they just forget their manners. Their rudeness is in your face. For example, I'll greet them and they'll just stare at me and then turn their backs and start talking to each other or return to texting. None of them can compromise on anything. The other parents are mostly uninvolved, or where they are, they don't seem to feel it's a problem. [/quote]

Lower ypur expectations.
You are expecting adult social skills and adult social experience from kids and it's not going to always happen.
I see the same thing with my DD's GS cadette troop and yes, I have seen my own DD weakly mumble hello to adults she knows. 
Adults understand to say hi and make pleasant small talk but guess what? Tweens and teens don't do that yet. They certainly don't do it socially yet among themselves either. It's a skill they will learn over the next few years.
So try not to be so offended and I promise you acted the same way towards some adults when you were that age. Even if you want to swear you didn't![/quote]

Spend the next meeting establishing ground rules for the year.  We recently did this.  It helped.  Can you establish a no technology at meetings rule?  Or they need to give the leader their phones until a certain time?

Down right being rude to you as troop leader is not acceptable.  Have a parent meeting to talk about expectations you have - and establish what the consequences are to it.   Is it that a child needs to leave the meeting?  That the parent needs take an active role in running meetings until the behavior changes?  Figure out what you want / need.[/quote]

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