April 4, 2025
America is raising feral children
By Ned Cosby
We were posted at the front of a large public high school auditorium in the Land of the Free in 2015. Both of us were responsible for maintaining some semblance of order as 150 to 200 students socialized, did homework, and ate lunch.
I can’t tell you what my partner saw, but I saw girls sitting on their boyfriends’ laps. I noticed a student climbing over chairs to get from A to B. Some students were throwing things.
We discouraged all this, of course, but the scene reminded me of Wild West cattle drives I’d seen on TV. I was a 61-year-old soon-to-retire teacher at the time, and my partner was a “bouncer,” aka disciplinary assistant, in his late 20s. This handsome young black man turned to me at one point during this chaotic time and observed, “These kids don’t know how to act.”
If feral students were the measure of a nation’s wealth, America would be the richest nation on earth. At the beginning of the 21st Century, we have an epidemic of parents unwilling to parent and educators unwilling to discipline in our country.
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