We all know Baltimore has big problems, with kids in schools just out of control beating up teachers and breaking in over weekends, attempting to sexually assault people in the building and just going around with a complete lack of character and morals. We have a mayor who says “so sad, too bad” when yet another school employee is attacked in a school and a schools CEO who begs off by saying he can’t just blanket schools with security because he can’t guess where and when problems might pop up. And in the end, nothing happens to the kids who cause problems and they become even more emboldened because they know they can do what they want without consequence. So the schools become even more dangerous. It’s really scary. That’s why I’m glad I live in the county. For now. Lord knows city bullshit gets exported out to us before too long.

While city teachers and administrators (rightly) contend that nothing will ever get better until these little animals learn how to act human at home, we have parents out in the county thinking their shit doesn’t stink because they have it all together when it comes to child rearing.

I was in the local Target yesterday getting a prescription filled (yay drugs!) and some privileged white woman was in there pushing her privileged brat of a kid around in a buggy (”buggy” is West Bumfuckian for “shopping cart”). The kid was a girl and had to be 10. She was sitting in the big part of the buggy and taking up all the space.

While pushing her around, the mom was totally berating her daughter for some shenanigans the girl pulled in school. When she wasn’t busy talking on her cell phone. Or checking out the sandals on display in the store.

So here you have some bitch disciplining her kid in a Target while shopping and talking to whomever on her phone. Way to get your point across.

The sad thing is that woman probably went to bed last night praising the shit out of herself for the job she’s doing with her daughter. And her daughter might be ok and may turn out to be fine.

But based on the example set by this woman, and knowing that bad examples blow up into poor practice as time goes by, what are the odds that the daughter’s kids turn out pretty shitty based on the examples the mother is setting now? Pretty high I’d say.

In a generation when privileged white county kids act just as horrific as the savage kids in the city do now, I wonder where the fingers are going to point.