Generation P Breeds

Kids now days – not little kids, but the kids of Generation P. Gen P is squeezing out pups left and right, as if they don’t understand how its happening. That’s what you get for counting on the school system to explain sex to your kids, I suppose. More likely it is a matter of the “repercussionless” society we have become.

Anyway, now we have all the Gen P offspring, only Gen P figures they should party on and junior is just cramping their style. Along with this they find themselves throwing perfectly good money away on a kid rather then getting that new tattoo on their significant other’s ass, or buying a couple cartons of smokes. They are used to getting everything they want and can’t deal with suddenly not being able to have something. And the kid is the crux of the problem – what to do?

The answer is dump the problem on someone else, like the mom and dad, or better yet the school system. If you play your cards right, you can have your child labeled as special needs and it is all free (there’s that new nose ring you have had your eye on!). Teachers are no longer expected to teach or to prepare junior for his future academic efforts, oh no, now the teacher has to raise junior. The “No Child Left Behind” law has even codified it. Get your kid labeled special needs and the state has to take care of him by law. No matter there is no state money or the teachers get a new child every other day, the parents are rid of that anchor around their neck.

Now to be fair there are plenty of kids that honestly need help, but the system to judge that isn’t very good and prone to mistakes. Some parents come in to have little Timmy tested and have obviously been coached as to what to say and how to fill out the survey (yes, the parent’s opinion is a big part of the decision making process). “Little Timmy isn’t socially developed and doesn’t get along well with other kids”. Little Timmy is three and that is the way three year olds are. He also will “never listen (never mind he isn’t to the point where he understands everything he hears), “won’t put his toys away” (I am over 50 and still don’t put my shit away). The therapists are either naive or trying to drum up business when they are play along with the parents and declare what are actually behavioral problems as being ADHD or Autism, or on and on. And yes, a lot of the kids just need to hear “no” once in awhile, or have a come-to-Jesus with the back of dad’s hand. Once again there are some children that are damaged goods. Whether through abuse, mom partying while pregnant, genetics, or just bad luck at birth they need a hand.

The thought behind making serving these kids a law has good intent but poor application and the teacher is the one who bears the brunt. More about how teachers are treated by the administration and school boards in a separate rant.

In the end teachers are overworked and the lack of the parents care and involvement result in Timmy appearing shirtless on a future episode of cops.