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A Lot Of Parents Don't Realize How Much Harder School Is For Their Kids.
I think some parents (not all!) don't really some of the problems present teens face. I.e. Increase in drug use, drinking, new drugs, etc...
 vintglam94  05 May 2008 22:12
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I don't know if its harder. I'm posting on the agreeing side, because yes, they don't REALIZE how much harder it is, because they don't know if it is or not. Just like they don't know what its like for us, we don't know what it was like for them, so neither of us has a valid argument. The only people with a valid argumentative stance in this matter would be your teachers who were student during your parents student years. Plus, I'm pretty sure drugs were accepted back in their day too. Depending on how old your parents are, weed was legal, and LSD use wasn't frowned upon by the youth, because of the music movement and all that stuff. Drugs are apparent in our generation just as it was in theirs, except all drugs are illegal now, so more kids talk about it like its something special when they've used, because its illegal, therefore "cool". I smoke weed everyday, I don't think it makes me cool, or uncool, its just who I am. And it sure didn't make school any harder for me. In fact, my grades rose after I discovered the Plant
 
 Carlton  01 Oct 2008 05:11
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Yes! I agree because MY parents keep saying stuff like, "In my day, I always did my homework and never, ever, complained." It just is so annoying! I don't really see the connection with drugs and alcohol but I like the title statement
 
 lavatis  06 May 2008 13:58
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School work is too easy for kids today. That whole no child left behind lowered the bar for all children. Any child today that is even close to average looks like a honor student when 20 yrs ago they would have been considered lacking. The schools train kids to memorize, not teach them to think. We had no calculators in class. We did it the hard way to teach us to use our brains. Kids today have no future thanks to government schools. I grew up in the 70s. Drugs were everywhere. Some did them. Some didn't. We had preps,jocks, stoners, ect. Back then parents and the schools system encouraged children to think for themselves. Today children are weak willed and weak minded.
 
 TullFan  08 Dec 2008 06:30
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I disagree. Teenagers only face drug and alcohol problems if they allow themselves to get involved with them. School isn't really connected to these problems. Teenagers will only make school harder for themselves if they choose to take drugs, drink excessive amounts of alcohol etc.
 
 louise23  07 May 2008 11:38
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 What I'm saying is that drugs and alcohol have become NORMAL in todays young society!
by  vintglam94
 12 May 2008 00:04
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In fact, anyone who has closely analysed the education system through the years would realise that subjects are dumbing down and back when our parents were in school, it was much harder. At least this is certainly the case in Britain.
 
 chaew  06 May 2008 08:21
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Sorry, I'm not seeing how any of those things makes SCHOOL harder. It might result in more peer pressure, but education itself is not impacted by such things and kids should know better than to engage in those idiotic activities to begin with.
 
 Cephus  06 May 2008 08:18
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