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Posted By: tbob

I live in a big city, and, from personal daily experience, have a positive impression of kids today. No matter how they dress or what section of the city your are in, most kids and teenagers are polite and nice and worth listening to ... There's a difference between watching cable news and actually meeting people>

Not sure if this comment was directed at my post or not, but having seen a huge rise in the number of kids as young as 12 using drugs (particularly methamphetamine), bringing fireams to school and resorting to violence, I'd say there's a helluva lot bigger problem out there than you think. I see these problems every day in my job and can only worry about the future for the other young people, most of whom ARE good kids, who have to deal with them. And no I don't watch cable news, I meet young people every day of the week and community activities.