Runway06 -“Discipline (obviously not to that extreme!) is the Answer. And it all starts at home with the parents and also in the school.”

Exactly and coupled with respect. Now children are encouraged to be “adults” when they are 6. Whatever words are used to describe it our social structure has broken down. And my experience of other countries where I have spent a great deal of time in the last 40 years is that the UK experience is not shared elsewhere.

There, the family unit, in which children are children and where there is respect for their elders predominates. It is seen as old fashioned and fuddy-duddy in the UK but it is this lynchpin which held together the relationships between children and parents and children and teachers.

My mother taught all her life in some truly awful inner city elementary schools, but even she would be appalled at way some schools are run today, and the attitudes of parents, children and staff.