Didn't you have a similar thread posted on the School thread? Maybe I'm just confused lol.

As a college student who graduation almost 2 years ago I can say that High School tends to be a time conflict for students. Yes they oldier and suposed to be mature, but they are not children anymore. When you get your driver's license, new car, age to gamble, and legal age for sex (well not true as we are finding out that middle schoolers are now having sex as well...I'm not joking.) you tend to view that you are on the same level as an adult because an adult also has a driver's license, a car, can gamble, and have sex (legally need I remind you). But when your in an enviornment where your still being treated like you were in elementary school, you dislike the fact that your not being accepted as a young adult. This is all my opinion by the way. I bet that if you ask your students the same question they would agree with my opinion on some points.

I agree that High School students are not adults yet. And your right to worry as the class of 2011 (my class) and the class of 2012 are already showing signs of immaturity and bad attitudes (not all of them). I'll agree to leave the arguement about what classifies as an adult as that is a bit complex; so we'll call High School students young adults. The school staff are their Elders like you said, sometimes we have elders we like (like my Government teacher/Chemistry teacher to give an example) and some we don't like (my English teacher/my English teacher again lol); its a lot like home; we have some family memebers we like, some we don't. But to us young adults we don't tend to see it that way; we see teachers as someone whose job is to teach us. They don't care if we don't learn the material (I've had a couple who have told us too are faces and I hope to get your opinion as a teacher about my sentence); they get paid either way (thou if the grades are terrible they lose funding from the government). My guess is that both the teachers must make an attempt to teach these kids in way that they can both learn the material without it being to hard or confusing (not to mention boring) and a strong home life as parents must also make sure that their kids are doing their homework, studying, and not screwing up their life.

Except that we run into a problem as well. Parents don't want to hear you tell them that your a bad parent and that they should get more involved in their kids life. They don't want to hear it but frankly its true.

No they shouldn't if anything they should respect your opinion and at least hear you out before deciding whether to shut you out completely. But off couse people are Ignorant and unless its about us, we don't care (which of course is a problem) and even then when it is about us; we become so prideful that we don't need to change as we consider ourself "the perfect person."