I agree, you do sound like a great teacher. However, I am not really sure that CHILDREN have changed that much. Is it better or worse that kids with behavior problems now come with paperwork? When I was a kid, the teacher got 35 surprises in their classroom every september. Sure, the worse kids came with a reputation, incorrigible, delinquent, retarded. But not all of them, and there were no "tools" with how to deal with them except maybe a stick!

Hang in there, you're making the world a better place.