Lack of discipline in schools is a result of lack of discipline in the home to start with. Parents are the prime source of discipline, respect and learning. If this is taught at home from a very early age then it will be easier to continue as they grow. By discipline I don't mean corporal...
Softus. Of course I am right and you are wrong. History is the proof of that. In previous generations where discipline played a part there was no yob culture. Today where there is no discipline yobs rule.
Think about it mate. Imagine how an army would work without discipline. They would be a...
Discipline is the key to success. Get the discipline back with a short sharp shock to those who think that the pen is mightier than the sword. Then the country will get back on track. A stiff upper lip.
Because kids were disciplined! No one has said that kids shouldn't be disciplined, only that they shouldn't be hit! If we could return parenting to what it was in the 60's, but take out the smacking and replace it with other forms of discipline then we might well have the answer.
The discipline argument is b*llocks
Didn't work for Tyson.
Got him off the streets mugging people granted, but then progressed to raping people.
Not a lot of discipline there. :D
I'm a boxing fan.......Just pointing out a flaw.
I didn't say it didn't teach discipline. It does.
It just does NOT go hand in hand.
10 scumbag burglars in a room (for example) you can't tell me the discipline in boxing will miraculously cure ALL of them from re-offending.
It's b*llocks to assume it does.
It used to yes. By using it as an extreme example to illustrate the problems of introducing discipline into schools in the modern day I was using it in it's past tense.
Whatever form of discipline was brought in now would leave teachers open to the same kind of threats from violent parents.
Hmm, Burglary and boxing. Struggling to see the link personally. Now, Boxing and wanton violence, then yes, Boxing discipline will help.
But you're linking of boxing and burglary as good comparisons - it's b*llocks.
A lot of ingredients have an E number assigned to them, it's only certain ones that cause hyperactivity (like sunset yellow).
I still think it's all an excuse for poorly disciplined children (I said disciplined not beaten :lol: ).