Are Schools Too Protective Of Kids?

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(02-16-2018, 12:10 PM)fredtoast Wrote: Todays children are less violent, smoke less, and get pregnant less than your generation.

Children today deal with much more pressure and stress.  Athletes have to specialize and work all year round to make traveling teams and get scholarship offers in 8th grade.  There are more standardized tests for scholars.  Social media has exposed them more to the ugly side people only show online and they can't escape social media because EVERYONE has to be on it.

I'll see your 112th place trophy and raise you a 9 year old kid who can only play one sport and has to do it all year round because that is the only chance he has to make an AAU team and have a shot at a scholarship in 3 years.  He can't play in the local rec league with his best friends because that is for "losers".

Do not know which stat shows this because when I was in school there were never gun violence at school like today. 

In fact there were less than 10 murders a year in Louisville which now there are many more with way less kids than us boomers. 

Smoking was glorified on TV back then and schools even had smoking areas for children where I went. It was way more excepted then opposed to now. 

Pregnancy ?  Once again there were way more kids then and free porn was not accessible as today.  Bet masturbation is up and that is probably not a good thing. 

My nephew played football and baseball and got offered a scholarship in both and excepted the baseball. Had many common players from his AAU elite baseball team that played football with him as well. Every single one got a scholarship coming out of Ballard HS.  

Betting heroin and overdoses are way up nowadays as well. 

Get the teacher argument but not some of this even if stats support it.