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I have been visiting the politics room a bit just lately and have been following the free school meals thread. A lot of people were stating how much better it was in the old days with people looking out for each other, being too proud to claim benefits etc etc. and young parents who would not put their childrens needs first were in the firing line for most of the posters. @crackatoa made the point that it was our generation that had spawned this generation of scroungers. I think that mine and crack's political views are probably at opposite ends of the spectrum but i think he was bang on with that observation. The moral decline has been huge in the last 40 or 50 years or so, I remember telling my parents that I was going to Ibeza with my girlfriend in 1976 and my dad asked who would be chaperoning us! He didn't try to stop me going but he was not happy at all. 10 years prior to this a young girl on our estate got pregnant, OMG, the tongue wagging, dirty looks etc were unbelievable, nowadays no one would care. My question is, what caused this lowering of standards? Obviously it has been exacerbated with the power of the internet, but it was in decline way before this.
The internet has been responsible for a massive improvement in peoples lives, imagine being in lockdown without it, even typing this thread would not be possible without the www. However, I was talking to a school counsellor at an Academy where I was doing a short term contract, it was one of the roughset schools I had worked in, she told me that 90% of the year 8 girls (12 and 13 year olds) were sexually active. The problem was, they had derived all of their sex education from the internet and they thought that the things they had seen were 'normal' sexual activities, some of the things she told me that these kids had tried almost had me in tears; that is the downside of the net.
Will it get any better? I doubt it, I fear we are still only part way down a very slippery slope.
The internet has been responsible for a massive improvement in peoples lives, imagine being in lockdown without it, even typing this thread would not be possible without the www. However, I was talking to a school counsellor at an Academy where I was doing a short term contract, it was one of the roughset schools I had worked in, she told me that 90% of the year 8 girls (12 and 13 year olds) were sexually active. The problem was, they had derived all of their sex education from the internet and they thought that the things they had seen were 'normal' sexual activities, some of the things she told me that these kids had tried almost had me in tears; that is the downside of the net.
Will it get any better? I doubt it, I fear we are still only part way down a very slippery slope.