Anonymous wrote:DS8 is no angel, but it would be great to have a peer group that isn’t a “bruh skibiddy” disrespectful jerk pack. DH says I’m being unrealistic (no video games, no phones, no tablets, no motorized bikes or scooters, expecting basic table manners and respectful language, respecting adults) and that I should homeschool.

Homeschool lol no

Get a life you pos
Who made you the morality police?

Kids are like this because of white Christian nationalists, church and Trump .

I would never have my kids near your stupidity

My kids call each other "bruh" but know not to call adults that. They are in DCPS.

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Anonymous wrote:Catholic school. A huge reason we’re there is the kids wear belts and collared shirts every day, adults expect good manners, parents correct each others kids. I couldn’t deal with kids coming over and jumping on furniture. We wait until 8th grade cell phones. Not perfect and kids definitely have screens and misbehave sometimes, but much more in line with the way we grew up in terms of expectations and behavior.

+100

This has been my experience in Catholic school. It's a lot easier to instill manners in the classroom when you're allowed to tell kids god is watching and there's a picture of the pope staring them down.

Public schools can put googley eyes on the wall. Works just as well.

Catholic kids know where God cant see.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=j8ZF_R_j0OY

Anonymous wrote:Move to the south and live in a white suburb

Umm, I’m not sure if you are deliberately being racist or not. But, I live in a wealthy southern suburb that is virtually all white and my own kid who is considered an extremely well mannered middle school girl calls me bruh sometimes (and I don’t care and remember calling my mom “dude” in the 80s). You have a weird stereotype, because the kids I’ve known for years run the gamut of totally wonderful, polite kids to a couple of them with significant behavioral issues. But literally 100% of them are using current slang.

Posts like these sound like, “my perfect kid is being turned into a jerk by his peers.”

To the rest of the world, these kids just look like jerks.

Also they do plenty of influencing themselves.

Anonymous wrote:Catholic school. A huge reason we’re there is the kids wear belts and collared shirts every day, adults expect good manners, parents correct each others kids. I couldn’t deal with kids coming over and jumping on furniture. We wait until 8th grade cell phones. Not perfect and kids definitely have screens and misbehave sometimes, but much more in line with the way we grew up in terms of expectations and behavior.

+100

This has been my experience in Catholic school. It's a lot easier to instill manners in the classroom when you're allowed to tell kids god is watching and there's a picture of the pope staring them down.

Anonymous wrote:Move to the south and live in a white suburb

What exactly are you trying to imply here, bruh?

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Anonymous wrote:What are DoD schools?

OP, I think you need to visit a few private schools and find a strict one (not all are.)

Military base schools

Specifically, only on those military bases where the "DoD Educational Activity" operates the schools. Many such bases are outside the continental US. Some are in the continental US.

Students living on most military bases in the continental US (e.g., Ft Belvoir) instead attend the local public schools (e.g., FCPS).

Anonymous wrote:What are DoD schools?

OP, I think you need to visit a few private schools and find a strict one (not all are.)

Dept of Defense schools. But most people are not eligible to send their kids to one so it's a dumb suggestion.

Anonymous wrote:I’m not seeing 8 yr olds like this. With phones, calling each other bruh. Really?

I teach kindergarten and have had students call me bruh for years.

Anonymous wrote:What are DoD schools?

OP, I think you need to visit a few private schools and find a strict one (not all are.)

Military base schools

I’m not seeing 8 yr olds like this. With phones, calling each other bruh. Really?

Anonymous wrote:I look for big-hearted parents. Sorry, OP, you’re not one of them.

You’re not either

Dungeon of dragon school?

Like befriends like, OP. If your child is attracting ill-mannered friends, then you need to take a hard look at how he is behaving when he's outside your view, and what he himself values in friends.

The kids you describe absolutely exist, and if your own child was one of them or valued those qualities in friends, you would already know who they are.