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I do not know why the whole thing was painted over. It could be educational over-reaction, it might be that he didn't like the mural, and was looking for any excuse to have it deleted, it could be something else.

A lot of growing up tends to happen fast when traumas like that are involved. Not all of it is good or particularly healthy, but there's a lot that goes on there. The incompetence in the face of malice is pretty bad. The judge does have some leniency on sentencing, especially if the kids are tried as kids and not adults - so mandatory minimums might not apply, if the kids can convince the judge that this was a one-off, they understand what they did was illegal, and it won't happen again. If they return to court, the next judge will probably not be nice to them at all.

Talkin' 'bout my generation... I must be weird, then, watching how the article writers are trying to get people to show why they're not on top anymore, pointing at all their trophies and saying "In my day..." That part's been done many times before.

What's fascinating to me is that in both of those articles, the people who are being the most smug and condescending about the attitude of the young are the people who are likely to be the bosses and interviewers for jobs. Most of them are going to sit on their hands, insisting that anyone who seeks work from them conform to their idea of what a professional is and does. Which, I think, is what the CIO article-writer is getting at - all the old paradigms need to be looked at with a critical eye, to see whether they're still relevant to the newest workforce entrants. Now that we've had two generations of workers bombarded with new technologies, and at an accelerating pace, it might be a good time to check and make sure that the business models, organization structures, and other corporate and social mainstays are actually the right way to go.