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The difference between then (believe me I was there) and now is that the teachers get stick for allowing this to happen instantly. I've personally got into several shouting matches with teachers over how they treat my children and deal with these situations. I'm usually in a queue of other parents doing exactly the same.

People don't take any shit these days.

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Now and then? This kid is 17 now. Have things really changed that much? I think it's more likely he went to a different school and his parents had a different temperament than you and your fellow parents.

Definitely have changed. There is less respect for teachers, the school system and people communicate more. This has happened because there were a hell of a lot of victims.

Also communication between parents is now at an all time high. I've seen this change in just the last two years.

I sadly did not go to a different school, my parents insisted that that school would give me the best education, so I had no choice but to stay.

My parents did try to sort things out, nothing happened though, so I stopped telling them about it.

I think the 17 in the article is a typo for 27. He picked up programming in his teenage years, and the article mentions a "10 years later". Also, it'd be extremely surprising (possible, but surprising) that a 17 year old would have "won awards and travelled all around the country to meet people and attend or speak at conferences."

Hey! Writer here, I just thought it might be worth saying that I am indeed 17! :) I started programming aged around 7 or 8, and have won a couple of awards (Most recently a Google Code Award for ProjectHermes - a natural language analysing bullying detector for twitter), and spoken at a few events as well.

I'm incredibly surprised myself by the things I've done over the years, it's a pretty awesome world!

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