Return discipline to the schools. Parents and principals need to have the authority to paddle unruly children when necessary. Today, a kid can smart off at a teacher, disrupt class, and laugh right in the teacher's face, because she is not allowed to do anything about it and he knows it. I'm married to a teacher and have witnessed it many times. Once I even saw a student punch her with his fist. Some of these kids will say to their teachers, you can't do anything to me, or my parents will sue you. They told me so. And yet.....everyone seems to blame teachers for low performance. How can they teach if some wild kid is given carte blanche to ruin everything she tries to do? And how can she teach well when she has to spend so much time filling out insane government forms telling who is black & who's white, and who gets the free lunches, and all kinds of other red tape that has nothing to do with getting a sound education?
