I do not envy your job. Thanks for your dedication and hard work. I recently finished reading Random Family, for me a chilling book, making me once again ask "Are we okay with the way our society seems to be going" I don't have an answer to the lack of respect and we could pass many hours discussing. Is it society, is it family, is it the way we depict how to behave in Television and the Movies. Is it our total sense of individual entitlement. I appreciate the time frame of my school - we had our mouths wash out with soap, etc. A pendulum swing back to a little more behavior rules would not be a bad thing but I don't know how we get there. If parents and society don't embrace and support the value of the teacher than it is such an uphill battle.