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"We are teaching respect on a case-by-case basis, not on arbitrary parameters having to do with social position or age."
October 25, 2006 09:03 AM
...so says Jan Falk, of Fairfax Station, Virginia, writing to her local paper to extol her 11 year-old son's contribution to political discourse.
"I have never been more proud of my son," Mrs. Falk wrote the Centre View in Centreville, citing the eloquence in which her son greeted Susan Allen, wife of Viriginia GOP Senate candidate George Allen.
Guess what the little charmer said to Mrs. Allen?
"You suck."
Gosh. And I have been having a fit that my friends' kids fail to address adults with proper titles (Mr., Mrs., etc).