That pretty much reinforces what I've been saying about American education for some time now. The problem isn't that our kids aren't being educated -- the problem is that our kids aren't being educated and we're paying a lot of money in the process. We've turned "education" into nothing more than day care, but we still insist on paying people as if they are educators.
If parents would raise their children to have respect for adults and some manners, teachers might be able to teach more than they discipline.
By the way, I am a very tough teacher both in academics and discipline. If they don't call me a b*tch on the first day of school, I'm not doing my job. If they don't call me the best math teacher they've ever had after the first month of school, I'm not doing my job.