The biggest change I see is in the way education is being handled, especially in elementary and sometimes middle school.

Back in my day, and I'm not even that old, if you had bad grades you had to study harder or there'd be heck to pay. (Seriously. I got grounded for my first, one and only C in elementary for two weeks with no TV).

Nowadays, however... if a kid has bad grades, the teacher's to blame because his or her teaching methods "aren't appropriate for the kid's learning style". Or the school has a "stressful environment". Or "not enough is being done to encourage the kid to learn". My mum is a middle school teacher and she heard all these, and more. She even got reported to the principle once for sending a bully to detention. I remember I was so p****d off I wanted to find the parent who reported her and key his car. (I was 16 and stupid, what can I say...)

At least physical violence in school isn't tolerated anymore. When I was a pupil we had a teacher who used to slap us around in elementary, then another one in middle school, and a sports teacher who groped girls' butts and made lewd remarks and no-one did anything about any of these. I hear that's not the case anymore.