Civic sense, who should be teaching it to the kids?

Whatever happened to basic decency ?

Be respectful of anyone...EVERYONE.

Much as I hate to say it i suspect a lot of family problems are due to the fact that there's no primary caregiver role in families these days.

Parents have been told to get out into the world of work and stop being a burden on 'government resources'.
Only, they're not 'government resources'
They're 'family resources'.

When you let government define the roles your society plays, THAT'S when you get the mess you have now !

That's another important distinction.
Children were once a sign of joy.
A being raised with love, ethics and morals developing their own sense of ideals over time.

Mum or Dad was able to stay home and care for their children while the other went out to work.
They earned a livable wage that took care of living expenses and enabled modest savings for running a car or trips and holidays etc

Can you honestly say the same is true today ?

If Parents aren't home to raise their children and communities like church or temple get ever more extreme in their OWN doctrine rather than being there for the community, who's raising your children ?

There can be numerous reasons for what you see as a child's disrespectful behavior and misbehaving. They learn from the world around them.

I know a lot of adults that act like "grown" children and have very disrespectful behaviors... and some of them are parents, grandparents, and even teachers. Many adults can't control their own behaviors, let alone be a role model to children; it runs rampant in our world and is easily accessible to kids.

So, it is an interesting question... who is willing, and I might add, capable, to teach them how to behave? We value teaching kids how to read, how to write, how to do math... do we also value to teach them social emotional skills on how to behave and emotionally regulate, or do we just discipline them? Do most adults even know how to do this?

Sometimes it's a teacher with a child from an abusive home, other times it's a caring parent with a child who is bullied at school... any person in a child's life has the impact to either help or hurt.

Parents 💯

Parents should teach their kids, its their responsibility.
If my kid was to be disrespectful in public, I as a parent would be ashamed.

Schools are for aquiring and learning knowledge academically, Period.

Why does it have to be either/or? Because this is a digital age rather than one where messages can be reinforced, and people work in tandem?

The saddest part of this question is that it has to.

In an ideal world it would be modeled by others for children to absorb and imitate.