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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Just reflecting on some of the posts in here about roasting, bullies etc and it's making me reflect back on my elementary school days and all the shenanigans I got up to.

I used to walk up to boys, punch them on the arm and run away as fast as I could. Those horrible "How can you tell if someone is Ethiopian" jokes were popular and kids were repeating those constantly. I started sneaking cigarettes in 5th grade!

Of course we were told not to do these things, but I feel like the powers that be understood that [b]we weren't terrible kids... [/b]that we were learning how to be in the world and testing our boundaries.

What are your memories of elementary school?  What were some "bad" things that your friends / class got up to?[/quote]

Yes, you were.[/quote]

I'm truly sorry for you that you think that way.  I hope you don't have children that you expect to be perfect angels, and are horrified when they aren't.  That's a recipe for anxiety and depression.[/quote]

I'm not the poster who previously said you weren't a terrible kid, but I agree with them.  I remember those racist jokes from when I was in elementary school, and my friends and I knew they were wrong: it was the rough, mean, trashy kids who were repeating those.  And sneaking cigarettes in 5th grade was definitely not normal behavior: also rough and trashy.  It says a lot about the type of family you were raised in that you view those things as normal and acceptable.  There were a lot of people in the 80s who didn't, for your information.

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Wonder where those mean, trashy kids are today. I think they are still in my small town on public assistance. Probably great grandparents.[/quote]

[quote]It says a lot about the type of family you were raised in that you view those things as normal and acceptable.[/quote]

It's so funny to me that you think those kids were terrible, but that you as a grown adult come into a forum and trash someone's family of origin without knowing anything about them.  In theory, you should know better about kindness and compassion, and yet, here you are, a human after all, needing to put people down to somehow make yourself feel better.

You're wrong that I think they're acceptable.

And I do think that those jokes were terrible. But I draw the line at thinking the KIDS were terrible.

It's an awful type of black and white thinking to label a child like that, and it truly screws kids up when you take their behavior and make it their identity.

Kids need some grace to screw up and learn from it.

As for "where are they now", I imagine for the most part they just turned into normal adults.  I know I did.[/quote]

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