It happens when parents have kids and don't take care of them. 

You need a license to fish, but any trash can shoot out kids and get a Section 8 house.

I do have 3 high school boys and one middle school boy and let me tell you the stuff they come home and tell me happens not only in the parks but in the class rooms. Most of the teachers are good but tired, they send them to the office and not much happens. And the middle shool is worse than the high school.

I know we cannot blame the teachers but I do blame most of us parents.  It is easy to point fingers. What happend to the days were the kids have to check in and be home at a certain time. I always have a house full of their friends. I would rather have a noisey house of kids while I am home and know who their friends are and what they are doing than not knowing wehre my kids are..

Example I cam home early from work and caught my 12 year old skating home from school with a group of his friends. No he was doing nothing wrong except he knows he is not permitted to skate or walk home ever. So he was grounded for 1 week in the house no friends, phone etc. I bet he wont do that again. I do not believe in hitting but I do believe that if you take away someones favorit things they will listen the next time.

Lets all try to be more of parents and less of just about us.

In 30 years of teaching in a high school (I retired 2 yrs ago), I noticed a marked deterioration in the willingness of both students and their parents to take responsibility for their actions. Many students refuse to accept any restrictions on their behavior or responsibility for their actions. Many times at parent conferences parents have said that they have to deal with the kid at home and it was our job to deal with him at school. More often than not, if the administration tried to deal firmly with the child, the parents would say that we were picking on their angelic darling because he was black, white, Hispanic, Asian, or any other group you can think of. Their next comment was usually that they were going to sue us all.

Much of the problem was the result of spineless school boards that refused to institute and enforce strict rules of behavior that had firm repercussions for violations. At the first threat of a lawsuit the board would fold like a lawn chair and settle on a compromise that would amount to a slap on the wrist. Over time this destroyed the authority of teachers and administrators. This will not change until school boards get backbones and until we get a judicial system that will support school administrators and teachers. Don't hold your breath.

Kudos to you parents who are doing a good job. I just wish that there were more of you.