Maybe if the schools were allowed to discipline kids like we used to, the cops wouldn’t be having such a rough time today.
Our hands are tied and some of the things kids do behind schools wall would be considered felonies out on the street - things like theft, vicious assaults (the school will call it a “school yard fight), extortion, threats and worse.
We can’t even suspend them any longer for anything so they get the message that they can get away with anything anywhere.
I see it all the time in my community working in a retail environment....the level of 'incompetent parents' is striking here....and most see the schools as babysitting clinics so they can be free of their responsibilites. You can with certainty believe that if their little Johnny goes bad they will blame the school system rather than see that they've raised brats and thugs and bullies. Who never even learn to pull their pants up...and then they wonder why they end up here!
