They have forgotten the corollary three R's - respect, responsibility and reverence. They fear enforcing their own rules and hoist the white flag of surrender. Students think they can violate rules and regulations with impunity, and violation can lead to violence, defiance to disruption and destruction. Our children suffer. Certainly we Jews, as part of society at large, must attempt to resolve the problem.
Youthful rebellion is no new phenomenon.
The generation gap is quite natural. This does not mean that for centuries we lived in an authoritarian society. It does mean that the classic Jewish home is one where parents listen to their children but don't submit, while children speak to their parents but don't talk back. The lines of communication are open because there is a common language, a common sense of values, and a common code by which they all live. This concerns how to behave in his private life, how to conduct himself in relationship to his fellow man, and how to serve God in his every action and deed.