The easiest way to solve a problem is to undo what has been done. Students and teachers lost respect for each other at the same time. Therefore, using simple logic, one would assume that the best way to regain this respect would be to also do this in a synchronized manner. This idea seems apparent enough, but there is one more point I have made in this paragraph that has not yet tied into the larger quandary. Students and teachers are untrustworthy of each other. Neither group is trusting enough of the other to believe that the respect will actually be gained back if that one small step is taken in the right direction. Being also stubborn, neither group wants to push the other in that right direction. Until something immaculate occurs, teachers won't respect students as they should, and students will not do the likewise for their teachers. .
With that horrible and weak excuse gone, we move to the next group of finger-pointers, parents. Our parents have somehow allowed it to slip their minds that they too were once young, and uttered the so easily forgotten words of every generation, "I"m going to be so much cooler than my mom or dad when I"m a mom or dad." By no means does our generation expect their generation to live up to this promise, we just ask that they remember it. Remember the Beatles on the Ed Sullivan Show when you yell at us for staying up late on a school night to watch the MTV Video Music Awards. Remember Farrah Fawcett and Leif Garrett on your wall when you see Jennifer Lopez and Eminem on our walls. When you shiver at the sound of one of the great Notorious B.I.G's raps, remember your parents telling you to turn off the unforgettable Bob Marley. Don't blame the media. In their generation, the media was blamed for the drug use, which was extensive by some accounts, and undoubtedly they claimed it wasn't the media's fault either. Don't blame our media for killings that it's not causing.