[Vicky.]

Something really does need to be done like, I have no idea what but its not my job to come up with solutions. As teachers are having a horrendous time of it, especially in senior schools. Kids just do not listen, as they know they cannot be punished.

Mind, there was no corporal punishment when I was at school, and we still would not have dared go on like some today do. I think todays behaviour is a mix between knowing teachers can't really do anything AND having parents that don't care. See when I got detentions, my parents went off it with me and punished me at home too. That doesn't seem to happen these days and parents seem unconcerned about how their kids go on. Theres the 'noone should tell off my kids but me' element too. Have had issues with a parent like that in a play area, this parent was sat watching their kid BITE my daughter, she kept trying to get away and this kid was chasing her. Damn right I told him he was horrible...oddly enough then the parent decided they could say something and came to try and blast ME for telling her kid to stop assaulting my (at the time) 3 year old!