They need to be treated with fairness by adults who are unafraid to be in charge, modeling heroic virtue.
And they need to be allowed to settle their differences, vent about stupid teachers and the very bad behaving ones need to get expelled or wish they had been.
No need to go back in time. These are classic concepts.
Oh, they need to be taught classic literature - Homer, Shakespeare, Herodotus, Austen and Twain.
Sorry; but there are none of these left.
EVERYONE from the Principle on down is AFRAID of something!
CYA is the order of the day.
I agree. I'd go so far as to ditch the teaching of modern foreign languages and teach the little beggars Greek and Latin so they could read that literature in its original form.
Much more valuable than learning how to ask where the bathroom is for that trip to Paris that never materializes.