My daughter's campus had to evacuate buildings because of a bomb scare - what's wrong with people?

Question

Is it that this generation was not taught personal responsibility and consequences?
ALL they do is BLAME someone else for their problems and then lash out.

I do not take ANY blame for this generation. I have 4 GREAT kids - My husband and I raised our kids with love, discipline, personal responsibility, and consequences. My kids are "old-fashioned" GOOD kids.

YES - The University of Minnesota

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Answer 1

I blame society, and the men (dead beats) who dont know how to be a real man. They have failed at being husbands and fathers, thus the end result is a screwed up kid who grows up with no goals in life, because they werent loved or taught anything while growing up, they just basically existed.

Answer 2

Your daughter... who is alive, safe and in good health... was temporarily inconvenienced by having to evacuate her building in order to assure her safety. Meanwhile, there are 32 sets of parents who are burying their children. And you're complaining why? You should hit your knees and thank God that they evacuated even at the mere hint of a threat and that she isn't one of the many young kids who are being buried this week!

I don't know what's wrong with people today nor do I think you or I for that matter are to blame. I think there's a great part of today's society that for whatever reasons are disturbed. It's nothing new... it's been going on for decades now. Too many people have been taken out too early and too young because someone with a gun had a grudge to settle. It's unjustified and horriffic.

It is difficult to find peace in a world where tears and blood seem to be shed simultaneously. Our only hope as a civilized society is not to lash out or try to point blame. We need to find solutions. There are too many guns and it's far too easy to get them. And if you don't agree with that statement, remember the fact that there will be 32 funerals this week that are only necessary because someone had a gun who shouldn't have.

Instead of taking a self-centered prideful position on how your kids are not part of the problem, you should be more grateful about how your kids are not one of the statistics. Violence doesn't play favorites and in this troublesome day and age, we should take stock in the blessings we still have instead of griping about how easily they can be taken from us.

Answer 3

Well since attitude reflects leadership, I would guess that it has something to do with the leadership of this country overall. It isn't just regulated to left or right. We are fed fear from republicans, we are fed fear from democrats.

The question is, what are these kids seeing when they turn on the news every night?

Violence, violence and more violence with a story about Brittney Spears shaving her head slapped in the middle. How are kids suppose to react to this when the news is no longer the news? If you want to know why we don't have many responsible and upstanding children look no further.

You have to ask yourself how deep it goes and if it goes beyond a parents reach. The society we live in today is so busy attempting to have what others have that they forget about the people they neglect in the process. I don't disagree that there are some parents ignoring the problems their kids may have, but I am quite certain that wasn't the case in this VT shooters mind. He was in college away from home out of the reach of his parents.

Answer 4

Well, I'm not sure it's about assigning blame -- but, of course, there's plenty of lack of accountability around, these days.

All the same, I know exactly what you mean about lashing out. I wonder if there is some increase in pressure and unresolved rage that current society is experiencing, unlike even a generation ago.

I'm sorry this happened to your daughter -- sorry, too that you experienced something like this. Hope the perpetrator is caught and *does* suffer the consequences.

Answer 5

I'm sorry to hear that. I saw the article on yahoo and I got your msg. Schools have to take all and any threats seriously. My daughter's high school just had one about 3 weeks ago; the kids were evacuated outside in the cold for about an hour and a half without coats and missed lunch. The next day, a repeat incident happened in the middle school.

Answer 6

Was there ever a time in American history where there weren't criminals?

If you are actually suggesting that there was some magical "golden age" when you didn't have to take the responsibility of other people, you're right. It was called CHILDHOOD, and the only reason you didn't have to take deal with people like this or take any amount of social responsibility was because your parents did it for you. Then you got older and couldn't understand how people could think differently than you and you longed for that time when your mommy and daddy were protecting you 24/7. So instead of becoming a real member of an evolving society, you became this insecure, self-important, little whiner and you complained constantly how the world was changing around you and you blamed liberals for making changes that forced you deeper into social responsibility because it meant you would never feel the same security as you did back when you were a little girl with no reason to care about anyone but yourself.

You may have gotten older, but you obviously never grew up.

Answer 7

I'm with you. I, too, have raised a few responsible, hard-working thinking Americans! And those that have raised another sort will never understand what you are saying. They expect the gov't to take care of everything for them.

In my area today, a kid threatened 2 students with a gun in a parking lot and then he drove away. FOUR schools were locked down. A lot of kids were freaking out. The boy was chased down until he finally stopped and shot himself in the head. The nightly news may have had him scared to death, too.

I respect you for taking responsibility for raising your own kids and making them contributions to our society. When two cops were shot in the back of the hea here two weeks ago, a local "activist" reacted on local radio station by asking "Where did we fail this young person?" I took it as in insult. I do my part to help the less fortunate. but I didn't raise any thugs or drains on society. And I do not support policies for Americans to continue to do so.

Answer 8

When I was in high school in 1964 we had to evacuate our building multiple times for bomb scares. People are still people.

Plus, back then we had a government operating on violence, same as now. Maybe this trickles down from the top - violent leaders begets violent citizens?? (Relax I'm not bashing bush, this is a question about the nature of a society)

Answer 9

We have too many foreigners in our country. The United States of America, is too giving, and generous. We allow these strangers into our country, hoping that they may have a better life, like we do, but they don't know what it is to sacrifice, everything you have, for love of your country. They don't understand what our forefather's went through, so America could be free from tyranny, and government. They will never understand, no matter how much they study, that America lives, for the sake of freedom alone.
Young people don't seem to be getting the message either, because their parents are not telling their children about the great history of our people! We have too many "teachers" now, teaching our children how to hate their own country, rather than to love it, for all the sacrifices in our past, and present hero's fight for. Those "teachers" got their jobs through Affirmative Action. Strange, that our teachers, who got their jobs as a gift, just for being non-white, would hate the very hands, that gave them their means of making a living.

Answer 10

it's not just this generation. I had to evacuate a building on campus back in the mid 70's because of a bomb threat. The key here is "threat". Bad as it might seem, it beats the alternative a whole lot.