Pissed...

I am so sick of the "holier than thou" attitude some people have toward me...  They think that their being older automatically means that they know more than me -- about everything...  Well, let me tell you something...  When it comes to working with teens and advocating for them, these people don't know shit...  I just overheard them say that I don't know what I'M talking about, but they sure as shit know nothing about "real" teens...  They assume that the few trouble makers -- who are mostly misunderstood in the first place -- are the only teens for whom we make our library policies...  And, somehow, they think that this makes it fair to have age discriminatory policies (that only work against teens)...  The other day, a student was hit by a truck as he walked to our library...  Why?  Because he missed his bus home and would have needed a fucking pass (from a teacher, not a parent) to get the bus here -- but he didn't have one...  So, he did like a lot of my teens and walked down a major road (it's less than a 1/2 mile, but still dangerous) to get here...  Unfortunately, he didn't even make it all the way here...  He was hit by a truck and the boat it was towing, so he has a broken nose, stitches all over his face (to the extent that his eyes are swollen shut), broken shoulder blades, a collapsed lung, a broken pelvis, a disconnected hip, and a broken foot...  There were a TON of witnesses -- some his friends and some who were not -- who all said that the kid merely walked across the road (not playing chicken as rumors have stated) and that the driver probably would never have hit him if he didn't freak out and slam on the brakes (causing the truck and boat to skid to the right and hit the kid)...  And yet people still feel as if the teen MUST HAVE done SOMETHING wrong to cause this accident -- citing the so-called fact that, "Teens lie to protect each other."  WTF?!?  Some of these kids were his friends, but some of them didn't even know him -- and I got the same story from all of them...  I am so pissed that I don't think I will be able to get much actual work accomplished right now...  And that's a bad thing, since I am the only one in the children's room AND I have a class coming in at noon...  Gah...  Later days...