Quote: (10-29-2015 07:58 PM)Quintus Curtius Wrote:
This what happens when you take discipline out of the schools. Anarchy. And when you try to impose discipline, parents and media stab you in the back.
Public education is dying, if not already dead. I went to small-town public schools and high school, but I think that era of history is now ending.
Pretty soon, if not already, the only kids getting a decent education will be those from families who can afford private school. I was not one of those, but things were safer back in the 80s.
Now, it's just chaos.
If it were up to me, I would bring back uniforms and corporal punishment. But of course that would never fly.
This must be why, when I read about the story about the cop who threw the student across the room, that my first thought was that she probably deserved it.
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I would argue that it is now too late.
"The only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilised community, against his will, is to prevent harm to others...in the part which merely concerns himself, his independence is, of right, absolute." - John Stuart Mill, On Liberty