30 day Writing Challenges

Challenge 2: Day 22

Something that upsets me:

How kids these days act to their elders. And yes I know I'm only 16 and I sound old, so what?

My high school shares it's ground with an elementary school and I can tell you, what I've heard some of the younger kids say (around 7 maybe 8 years old)! It's stuff I would've never dared to say out loud.
Take for example (a mild one), there were a few kids that were playing with a ball. I geuss they were around 7 maybe 8 I don't think they were older than 9 anyway. Their ball hits us more than once and we politely to stop. They don't. Instead, they start doing it on purpose. We took their ball.

We have done this more than once:

Situation 1:

My friend threw their ball into the garbage container and put the lit on. The kids actually jumped into it to grab their ball.

Situation 2:

We kept the ball. After the bell rang we threw it in the container.

Situation 3:

We kept the ball and the kids were nagging about it. They started slapping us, jumping on us to try and take the ball away from us. We told them that all they had to do was ask nicely and apologize for throwing it at us. One of them literary said "Fuck you". I wouldn't even have dared to say that to someone from highschool, knowing that I'm a kid from elementary school.
Anyway, one of them actually apologized and they got their ball back.

We haven't had any incidents since. I just think that kids don't get raised with respect anymore. They should respect everyone around them! Not that I'm so great at that, I admit that but at least I wasn't as sassy as they are now. It just upsets me how kids of today will never know how it feels to actually get a smack in their face for doing something wrong.

Today, you can't even threaten to not give them desert without getting annoyed parents telling you that you are wrong and the kid should get the desert even though they didn't eat their food.