respect?!

sitting in a public school setting and having experienced both homeschooling and private school setting is a big change but the one thing i still see in all of these is lack of respect.It might not be as obvious in a private school setting but its still there in the mumbling and evil glances as the authority figure isnt looking.
But then in this public school setting its more obvious with the language,verbal abuse and sometimes physical.and all this makes me wonder what happened to respect?
in all the previous generations we see that YES they had problems like all people but at least they could deal with them like civilized individuals.But now it seems that we as the "New" generation comes along respect keeps dropping farther and farther down the ladder as individualism and self worth are encouraged more.
i dont mean to say im imune to this. not at all in fact i had just recently been exspressing my "individualism" by wearing black fingernail polish and all black. but then i was rebuked by my leader and he showed me that what i was actually doing besides conforming to the world is that i was hiding my beliefs by showing myself as something else, if anyone would have seen me they wouldnt have said "wow theres something different about that kid maybe hes saved." no they wouldve said " oh my God jimmy stay away from that boy he looks satanic!" and thats not how i want to be seen so out of respect (for my leader and myself) i stopped the black fingernail polish and im trying to put my beliefs out there more. but still i see others who just say "screw authority i can do it myself" who are so blinded that they dont even see that there "individuality" is actually rebellion and therfore the spirit of witchcraft! i just hope and pray that God will somehow open the eyes of the blinded so they can see themselves as who they truly are and have some respect for others and themselves