Tell me what you really think.
I am sorry that I don't know the origin of the quote. Amen to the rest!
I don't think it's surprising that they aren't too tired to go to a sporting event, but too tired to go to the academic "stuff".
Sporting events don't require an intellectual effort, people get recharged by the crowd's energy around them. It's easy and effortless.
The PTA meeting, the spelling bee, the choir - those all require intellectual effort. There is no crowd energy to feed off of (unless the PTA is discussing something controversial, like Huck Finn and how it needs to be banned because it doesn't portray the African American man correctly.)
It's not fun, in short.
It might be cynical, but there it is. For the record, I don't share this view. I'd much rather go to the kids concert over the sporting event, unless my kid is the athlete.
Soooo... those were the halcyon days? I guess I missed that in my study of American history - too busy, I guess, reading about child labor in sweatshops and Jacob Riis's description of those same tenements as squalid and horrible. I think you've fallen into the ubiquitous rut of nostalgia for the past/disdain for whatever is the problem today. I know plenty of well-behaved children as well as a number of less well-behaved children. I imagine that there were plenty of ill-mannered children back in the day (where else did the bullies and baddies of earlier literature come from?). And I guarantee you that 100 years ago, as in every age, people were bemoaning the lack of morals in their modern era and waxing nostalgic about the early 1800's, when people were just nicer.
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