Sykes Gets It Wrong: Students Tougher Than Ever

Charlie Sykes over on the Right side of the playground is whining, The Wimpification of America: Back to School, that today's students are more wimpy than ever.

Not so.

Student arrested after scuffle with trooper -AVERILL PARK - An incident Tuesday afternoon at Averill Park High School led to a student facing charges for assaulting a state trooper.

Mount Vernon students arrested   Three students were arrested and two teachers allegedly were assaulted Wednesday following a lunch-hour incident at Mount Vernon Township High School.

Two Arrested In Honors Student's Slaying -Baltimore city police arrested two men in connection with the slaying of a Patterson High School honors student who got caught in deadly

Fourth Grader Arrested For Bringing Gun To School...a teacher's assistant. She took the bullets from the student and discovered the boy also had a gun.

and this:

Playground "from Mars" a hit at Solomon Schechter School...During their first recess of the new school year, the students attacked the new playground as if they would never be allowed to play again.

They shimmied up the rock climbing walls, dangled from spider web ropes, spun around on rotating circles and crawled through a series of dangling blue ovals.

"The rock wall - really fun," said a slightly out-of-breath Hannah Bartel, an 8-year-old New Rochelle girl.

My unscientific collection of anectodes are better than his. And I am not using mine to sell a book. So there.

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Just two days ago, another one:

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