To want all parents of teenagers to know

[enjolraslove]

that I have just been away with 50 of them for the last few days(school trip) and they were just wonderful. I could not have asked for a nicer, kinder, more responsible and fun group. Today they were being very secretive at lunchtime which normally heralds disaster but it was because they had bought thank you cards for all the staff and were getting them signed (that really did make me cry). I am so incredibly proud of them and their parents should be too.
That's my good bit. Bad bit, not one parent (and about half got picked up by car- rest got buses home) even spoke to a teacher, let alone thanked them.
So my question aibu to think that these kids really are incredible to be so good given what appears to be a total lack of good examples from their parents. Honestly these were a really mixed bunch, lots of serious trouble etc but they were just a delight the whole time.

DS2 has just finished college ans is so sad about it,he says it was the best two years of his life!

He was bullied at school and only made really good friends when he went to college.

And what a nice bunch they are too.

oh a survival parcel

HaHaHa.

DD was a door slammer

Pissed me off when she did it but you know...broad shoulders.

It doesn't last long and there are plenty of vile adults out there and they must have been teenagers too once.

My geography teacher once cleaned up my (drink induced) vomit on an A-level school trip... but then she was awesome and my favourite teacher.

Respect to you OP for giving another generation some classic and fond memories!

Nice to hear it!!

Often people think something bad and do not hesitate to tell people about it, not always so with seomthing good.

well you sent sweets sweets are always good and what 14 yr old doesnt worship money,

yes it does pass dd1 has turned into a lovely young woman DD2 is a bit dramatic is is a challenge but all in all they are great,

They really were amazing. From the total loveliness of asking permission to do everything, the fact they supported each other much, the fact they all 'slept ' ( I mean literally)with each other and were then full of apologies. Seriously teenagers are great and I love my job

I've just made a slide show of all the photos and the song they kept singing ready to show them all this week

HAHAHAHAHAHA! Other peoples teenagers are often delightful! I'd trade mine for somebody else's most days!
As someone else said, they had to learn those manners somewhere, it was quite probably their parents! Are you saying that they have good manners despite their parents? Or that they learned them from all the wonderful teachers in the world!
Maybe the parents didn't speak to you, because they were full of a sense of impending doom, they'd had some lovely teen free time and now the little darlings were home?...
Maybe, like most school trips, theyre hacked off because the ETA WAS 5.30pm and the minibus didn't arrive until 9pm?....

It's lovely you had a nice time, but don't forget, you were taking them somewhere they wanted to go, doing something they wanted to do!

What a lovely post.
I think lots of teenagers are lovely too.

for op, although she probably could do with a few too.

at what saggy said

I think teenagers are vilified nowadays for no reason. My dad who's 78 fell over (tripped on a kerb, cut his hands knees and head when he fell) outside Wickes in town. He had a receipt in one hand and the product he was returning in the other and was well dressed (so people couldn't mistake him for anything else than a pensioner in trouble) but everyone, I'm talking adults here walked past and ignored him. It took him 15 minutes to recover and get up, no one came to his aid. A few days later whilst at our local shops where teenagers had been banned from gathering for just being teenagers a man his age fell over. All the adults just walked on by and a group of teenagers went over helped him get up and escorted him to his car after making sure he was ok.

It still tugs at my heart now and makes me feel sick that grown adults left my dad there hurt and bleeding on the floor of a carpark. How could they do that