How was your "raising"?

I have been out of school now for three days with some kind of crazy congestion and head thing. My sub called me yesterday almost in tears because of the way my students acted. Keep in mind that she is used to working with younger kids, but she had some place to be upset. I had two children, yesterday, unwrap a paper clip and proceed to insert it into an electrical outlet. Then they dared the other and so on. One of the students burned her hand pretty bad and then lied and said she burned herself on a pipe in the bathroom. The custodians freaked out because they were worried that there might be something dangerous in the bathrooms that would harm the other students. This child was finally "snitched" on for lying and the truth came out. Sue and Bob is what we will call them. Both have been suspended for two days. Sue's mother came and picked her up and of course, blamed the school. Bob's father researched all the legalities of having the electrical outlets uncovered before he came up there to throw his weight around. He is very good about announcing that he is a former city councilman...like that is so great. He also wanted to know if the students were being supervised. Are you kidding? Well, the electrical outlets do NOT have to be covered because we assume that parents are teaching there children not to play with electrical outlets. Guess we give parents too much credit. There was one teacher in the classroom who was busy working with another child. Oh, sorry, you don't like the ratios...pay us more and vote for someone else. I AM NOT THERE TO RAISE YOUR CHILDREN. I am there to TEACH them Math, Science, Reading, etc. I AM NOT A BABYSITTER. Sounds like the parents might need to grow up a bit themselves. When I am the same age as my students' parents, and my students are 10-12 years old, there is a problem. I think that people should have to take a test before they are allowed to be impregnated. So, what is the difference in the "raisin' "? Why is this generation of parents so completely iresposible and ignorant? When I was in school my friends' parents were the same age as my parents. They were responsible, working adults, and good parents. They made their children take responsibility for their own actions. It was not the school's fault. What happened to the raising of our children?