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I have noticed my niece using the term "gay" a lot lately. From the context, I don't think she means it in the same sense we perceive it. I think kids are using it to mean different, weird...kind of like we used geek or freak back in the day...lol.
Not that I think calling someone a freak is acceptable...just thought I'd share that thought. It struck me as strange, at first, when I heard my niece using the term that way.
I think a lot of it is that kids aren't forced to respect anyone...parents, teachers, other kids...even themselves. What is the punishment in school? Detention? ISS? Then, when they go back after the kid who got them in trouble, they just get more detention.
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The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.--Friedrich Nietzsche  |