“In conjunction with similar action taken at home, it actually at one time helped maintain civilized behavior”
I just can’t understand why it has come to this. Literally the schools are filled with sociopaths in training. It’s not like harmless taunting, it’s literally systematic stalking. I might be 26, but I would think that in the fifties things were a lot less malicious in schools.
Well, I wasn’t around then- but I do teach history, and note a marked difference in society and education between then and now. My parents lived in that vanished world, and they lived in a world where criminals got punished, bad children got a spanking, and people could walk the streets safely, leave doors unlocked, and even leave your keys in the car. Cause trouble in school? You either got spanked or sent home.... I was among the last (1970s) where spankings were given in elementary school. I sometimes think I belong to the last generation that has anything like sense.