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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I remember the exact same behavior in the 80s when I was in middle school and I attended a private school. [/quote]

There were no phones so no distributing porn was happening. Weed maybe but that’s happening too.[/quote]

I agree about phones and porn. However, I was referring to OP’s original post and plenty of kids cursed, were disrespectful to teachers behind their backs and tried to wear inappropriate clothing. And I remember my mom telling me that when she was young kids were different. [/quote]

We passed around an actual book that was pornographic in my middle school in the 1980s - so low tech  :lol: [/quote]

It was magazines at my school.

My parents never dismissed it or accepted it as normal. If we were caught misbehaving or being disrespectful we were punished. That didn't mean that we didn't push the boundaries, it is what kids do. MS is the first time kids are changing classes regularly and have a larger amount of independence. They carry more in their backpacks and can stash things in their lockers. There is more room for bad behavior so stuff happens. The bus ride tends to be longer, heck it will be my kids first time on a bus because he walks to school right now, so there is more time and space for bad behavior.

Explaining why it happens does not mean condoning it.

That stuff happened, using different formats, when I was in school. At the time people were blaming music videos and song lyrics. Kids were busted for smoking in the bathroom, porn magazines were passed around, there was swearing. Some kids were punished when caught and others were not. The ones who were punished either changed their behavior or tried to more careful and avoid getting caught. The ones who were not punished tended to keep doing the stupid crap. You ended up with the kids people avoided because they were "trouble makers" and the kids people wanted their kids to hang out with. Half the time the "good kids" were just better at nit getting caught.

And this was totally happening in the 50's and 60's and 70's. It might have been harder to have happen because the technologies were different but I promise you that there were kids doing the same type of things and pushing boundaries then.[/quote]

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