The Gov.. can make a start by bringing back capital and corporal punishment. The kid glove treatment hasnt worked.

Do you think Boot Camps would work then?

Make parents responsible
we respected our parents and nice kids of today do too.
Note the word parent`S not parent,it should be a join thing.
Alas...........only one parent ! and the other will disagree,the kid is  quick to pick up on this and wham bam !
Got away with it again.
Also give teachers more authority.
Its not about what is missing it is what is lacking,love trust,and diciplin is all you need.

You will of course, excuse my humour!! but why has normal standards, been allowed to relax so much ?? was the old standards and issues so 'outdated'?? cannot younger parents actually Learn from othere's or is it soo hard to take in ?? --- Learning Right from Wrong, used to be soo Easy!!  Why is it soo Difficult Now??

Phoenix, in Germany we say it has to do with our standard of living - you know when we were young our parents didn't have the money to fulfill all our wishes. Then my generation tried it, so the generation of today's parents no longer knows what it means to have to do without something. When they have children they realise that they should have to do with the one or other thing, but they don't want to - we say they are the so-called "claiming" generation - they expect that everybody does his utmost that they feel satisfied. So they expect that you and me and all the others in a certain way look after their offsprings. German teachers say they don't feel in charge of correcting the faults in education made by parents - parents say school has to educate their children - so you see no one feels responsible and some children just behave not in the way society expects them to do.

As we say in Stockport..they grew up with full bellies !

True - if you always have what you want to have, you aren't prepared to accept that you have to do without it.