there is also the fact that school officials are not able to disipline children as they once were, when I was in school the teachers and principle maintained discipline and the kids KNEW it.
a healthy fear of what would happen kept all of us in line today all the kids fear for being unruly is a few minutes of time out or at most being suspended for a few days and if the kids want a few days off they know to just act up!
now if they knew that they would be subject to an ass beaten and perhaps some all day in school detention you can bet they would rethink their behavior.
I blame my generation, the previous generation knew how to enforce discipline and we were shown how to show respect and then the hippie generation of the sixties and seventies took over and rejected what their parents were taught, now they are in charge make it a crime to punish a child.
here is a great example I bought a moped for my stepdaughter for a birthday present, one day I had to go searching for and found her someplace, doing something that she knew not to do. I loaded up the moped in the truck and started to take her home, I also told her that she was grounded for a month from the moped she got mouthy and said I couldn't do that since the moped was hers, I drove to a buddies farm backed up to a pond and heaved the moped in once we got home I stood her in a corner behind a door telling her I didn't even want to look at her for a while, two hours later she calmed down and I let her go to her room.
now you would think that would be the end of it but NOOOO, she told her teacher about it the next day and that night we have a visit from children's service and the following day was in court, my crime? I put her in a corner for two hours this 22 yo social worker was afraid I might shove her head into a wall in the end I ended up paying several thousand dollars in attorneys fees hundreds in family counseling , had to rent a motel room for three weeks until the counselor report made it to the judge his report stated that I did what needed to be done in the situation.
so you tell me just who ended up punished!!