Heard about this on the radio. More info here: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...n-brawl-breaks-instead.html?ito=feeds-newsxml Check the video. Pitiful...
When I first heard this, I envisioned street gangs of 19-year old thugs having a rumble. Then the morning paper says they are arresting 14-year olds and that one of the problems in dispersing the "mob" was that they had to wait on their parents to pick them up.
Middle schoolers dropped off at malls without parental supervision are the absolute worst. And this is coming from a teacher who has put up with this age group for the past 21 years and from the mother of a middle schooler. They are not old enough to be out alone; they are far too immature.
Teenyboppers. When I was that age we could go out without parental supervision without too much danger because we really couldn't go very far. No malls, it was the local malt shop or the Main Street movie theatre. We walked wherever we went because riding our bicycles was "kid stuff" and being taxied around by your Mom was far worse, it was totally un-hip and surrendering to authority.
Dude, life changed at the age of 15 when we could get our driver's licenses. I got mine the day I turned 15 and the next day I bought a '56 GMC pickup for $250 on credit from Dear Old Dad. Then we were freed! We were all driving some kind of V-8 heap with no seat belts and gas was 30 cents a gallon. That was when beer, sex, and weed all became obtainable. We cut the apron strings much earlier in the 60's. Kids rarely lived at home after high school. I swear to God, you could go on a date for five bucks when I was in high school. Two movie tickets were $3, a pizza was $1.50, leaving 50 cents for gas for the nights cruising.
