Things People Forgot After Elementary School

As I grow older and interact with people my own age I've come to realize that people don't remember some of the most important things that they learned (or should have learned) before 6th grade. *These do not apply to everyone.* Here is my list:

• Manners: Yes mam. No mam. Please. Thank you. May I. etc. All seem to disappear when puberty hits and the focus is no longer on impressing your parents/adults but on impressing your friends (Or the folks you want to be your friends). Whats more cool/gangsta than being disrespectful and rebellious? Stick it to the man! -_-
• The definition of peer pressure: No, peer pressure does not mean someone put a gun to your head and forced you to drink while underage. That, my friend, is called assault and battery. Somehow after grade school people forget how to identify it. Well here is a hint. If you don't know why you started doing something and have no legitimate way to defend it other than "Everybody does it" or "More people do it that you think" then it was probably peer pressure.

• Chivalry: It always surprises me how much more gentlemen-like little boys are compared to the men I interact with on a daily basis. Little boys will hold open doors, Give you there seat, offer you their only piece of candy, make polite conversation, etc. I guess somewhere around middle/high school it become okay to act a donkey in order to attract a mate. Somewhere around high school it became cool to think of girls as nothing more than a sexual object. We all know how the popular kids became the popular kids....
• Self-worth: Remember back in the day, adults would tell you over and over again how special you were, how you were different form everyone else, how you deserve the best... In elementary school you ate it up. You walked around with your head held high. You wished a somebody would say something rude or disrespectful to you! Well somewhere along the way lil girls forget this and start accepting any and everything. Probably around middle school when the skirts magically started to get shorter and shorter in a desperate attempt to gain male attention. Somewhere around high-school/college it became ok for boys you just met to ask for naked pictures of you. I bet if lil johnny in 2nd grade, on the playground, had asked to see you naked you would've gave him all kind of side-eyes and a few choice words. What happened?

Maybe I shouldn't assume that everybody learned these things but they darn well should have. I know they watched tv and caught all those educational sitcom episodes on these exact topics. (Usually the ones where at the end of the show the characters come back and talk directly to the camera)