You would be shocks at how many dysfunctional children are
in our schools, even down to the lower Elementary School grades.
I’m learning about the extent of these problems with emotionally disturbed or parentally-miseducated kids (re their conduct) from my grandchildren.
Schools need good, strong and enforced rules of conduct, but if the children have problems, they must also be addressed in realistic ways. Excusing them from at least a partial responsibility means that they will continue to misbehave because they can, and that spells trouble in Middle School/Junior High and High Schools.
Look at the death rates of young black students and the causes of it. America - We have a problem.
Hope this new revised policy approach will succeed. It has too. Our children are too precious to waste.
There's a favorite passage from Emerson's essays that explains the danger of this laxness:
If you take out of State Street the ten most honest merchants, and put in ten roguish persons, controlling the same amount of capital, -- the rates of insurance will indicate it; and the soundness of banks will show it.
What's more, the highways will be less secure: the schools will feel it; the children will bring home their little dose of the poison.
Yhe judge will sit less firmly on the bench, and his decisions be less upright; he has lost so much support and constraint, -- which all need; and the pulpit will betray it, in a laxer rule of life.