In the course of your career, you may provide a good influence to somebody and help turn their life around. Or you may be dealing with incorrigible jerks who never get the message and worse - attack you in some way to show their scorn for the system. They may seem to get away with it, for the moment. Eventually though their habits and attitudes catch up to them and bring them down. Sooner or later everybody reaps their own reward for their actions. Don't let hate take you over, Val. I have to agree with Brian on this. You work with kids who need help, and you help them find the right path to becoming productive citizens. If you have this hateful attitude, what exactly is that going to say to them? You have to have compassion, like Brian said not everyone grew up like Leave it to Beaver. Karma will come back to whomever harmed you, but these kids are looking to you to help them not scorn them... Alex