That moment when you have a facebook comment that's just to good not to save. Thanks to our young people. I love you all very much and you have my utmost respect. I normally agree with Mike Rowe, but this, not so much. Granted it's out of context, so I will give him the benefit of the doubt and assume it wasn't so bad. I despise blanket statements, I don't care if they spoken by the president, the pope or who says them. Stereo types, zero tolerance, etc. are completely unjust. I hope you, dear reader, agree with me that our youth are under appreciated and easily written off just because of their age. These are our future, let's stop teaching them with our judgements that they are unworthy and unloved. Please.

Yes and no. I disagree with it on a whole, as it's a stereo type. Also it furthers generational boundaries. This has always been said of the up and coming generations. "This generation this or that" I think that there have always been hard workers and always been lazy people and I don't think that is going to change. I would say that this quote was me as a teenager, but it wasn't for lack of opportunity. I was just that age and didn't care. Now that I'm an adult, I am raising my family, I have a home day care and am finishing up my Associates come July. Saying teenagers are lazy does not mean that they will become lazy unproductive members of society. Sometimes kids are just lazy, not all of them. I know many wonderful honor roll students who are very passionate about life. Maybe this generation appears different, because they dress different, talk different, listen to different music, but they sure don't seem to care any less or be different about the things that matter. I think we as adults need to change, not the kids. The kids are alright, let's fix ourselves and our judgements and work together and stop letting agism be a major cultural divide in our society.