A 13 year-old in Austin (at Fullmore) has collected a Class C Misdemeanor criminal charge for wearing too much perfume. This touched off a discussion on the local radio show about the state of schools around here. Several teachers and a school bus driver have called in and they mentioned that it is now verboten for school people to touch your precious snowflake. A generation ago, your screaming meanie would have been taken to the principal's office for a paddling, with their feet dragging and their ears stretching. Now, they have to call the local policeman on campus to remove a disruptive student, or to get a child who won't stand up off the floor of a school bus.
And we wonder why there is no discipline in the classrooms. You make it so your teachers CAN'T discipline a child, and he won't be disciplined. Let a child in my Darling Wife's class even refuse to do their work, and see what happens. If they start a hoopin' and'a hollerin' and'a name-callin' and The Swat is very likely to make an appearance.
You have to teach children and animals where the fences are if you want them happy and well-behaved. If you don't, you get . . . what you have.
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