Some things do change for the better. As a child, I witnessed a male teacher punch out a 12-year-old student for telling him, "Why don't you get off of your high horse?" I was shocked by the violent reaction to that kid's words, but figured the teacher must be justified. After all he was a teacher, a man, someone with authority. I thought I might understand that teacher's mentality when I grew up. I still don't. That's just an insecure ego and children shouldn't be knocked around to prop it up. If that happened nowadays, that teacher would have been jailed for assault and child abuse.