Keren Aduma Sholit 4th grade. Height: two inches from the pot. Vocabulary - like a sea urchin! A reader told us a story that happened on the way home from school.
Some mothers with second graders walk. In front of her is a group of older guys. As it turned out later, fourth graders.
They look like they are still babies. But they talk in such a way that adults' ears curl into tubes! To curse through a word, and even across the whole street.
One of the mothers did not live up to this and made a completely fair comment.
And then a miracle almost happened!
The guys started talking among themselves:
Hey, the kids are coming! Let's be quiet! That is, fourth grade students understand very well that they should not express themselves in this way in front of small children. And they themselves, apparently, are already adults, they can do it! But then there is the most "authoritative" representative of the company. The boy, who still needs to grow to become an adult, turned to the woman and made a rude and obscene offer to go to hell.
The young experts then ran away with profanity. What courage! It's character!
True, for some reason he is just enough to be rude to a woman who made a common comment. And that is what is not particularly pleasant about this story. Children no longer only fight among themselves. They quite calmly allow themselves to be rude to unfamiliar adults who ask them to behave decently.
But the comment was perfectly normal. No one insulted them, did not threaten them, did not demand the impossible. They simply asked not to curse in front of younger schoolchildren. Dear parents, talk to your children! Being able to tell an adult to go far is not a sign of independence, courage or maturity.
But the ability to calmly respond to a comment, admit that you are wrong and behave with respect is really a sign of education.
And yes, our dear young "authorities"! 4th grade is still not a 4th grade conviction.