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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don't have experience at public middle but at private middle, and I am also surprised at the spoiled and sarcastic attitudes. I think it's popular wisdom that the poorer kids act worse, but honestly now I'm not so sure.[/quote]

My daughter and I are poor, and she might roll her eyes as she turns away from a teacher, but she'd never do it to their face, or curse in front of them or speak rudely to them. I know she now curses when talking with her friends, but she has the decency to say "Oh, sorry!" if she turns and sees a teacher behind her. [/quote]
+1 I grew up poor, now middle/upper class.  This is how I raised.  We teach our kids to respect the teachers, even if they don't like or agree with them.  We've told them that they would get punished if we hear they've been disrespectful to the teachers. You can disagree with a teacher without being disrespectful.

OP - on DCUM alone you will note that some parents don't think the eye-rolling and back-talking by a kid is a big deal.  [b]To them, the kid is "expressing" oneself.[/b]  That's why you see so much of it in public. It starts in the home.  We don't tolerate back talk, ever.

Some parents on here have claimed that respect should be earned not given, even by a teacher.  So, that's how the kids treat the teachers... like the teachers have the "earn" their respect.  Such crap.[/quote]

This problem is becoming prevalent in many schools across the country because of these new parenting norms.  [/quote]

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