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That's totally out of order.
How exactly do they expect that kind of treatment and generalising to help relationships between young people and older people improve?
If you'd been barred because you were black the shopkeeper would rightly have been punished- this should be exactly the same.
As for the minority who do commit crime, they should be punished properly when they steal and vandalise. While I agree that hanging around drinking and smoking harms no-one but the teens themselves, anyone caught shoplifting or breaking and entering should be made to pay for any damage caused. This means of course that we need more police out on the streets.
We start them on exams at the age of around 11, then more exams and more and more... If they misbehave they suddenly haver ADD and are zombified on Ritalin, or they are labelled as naughty kids, under achievers, misfits. The parents have to work so much that they don't have time to spend at home raising their children... So many people are so obsessed with pedophiles and criminals they won't let their kids out and stick them in front of a Playstation... Other people let their kids out, but then there's nothing for them to do.
I'm glad that I'm an adult, I'd hate to be a kid these days. There are a few children who need discipline, I'll admit that, but at the same time maybe if we talked to them then we'd understand their issues. The more we label kids as yobs and stereotype them, the more that stereotype will become true.
I am not afraid of young people at all, I've chased groups of them down the road for giving me shit. There are a few isolated incidents of violence but that's about it. Most will leg it, or get a bit gobby.