"43 Elephants" wrote in message
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> Ivan wrote:
>>
>> wrote in message
>> news:253c6c5c-30d0-4080-b4c1-01269a3e8def@n77g2000hse.googlegroups.com...
>>> On 22 Mar, 12:12, "Ivan" wrote:
>>>>
>>>> I grew up in a pretty rough postwar inner city area and attended a boys
>>>> only
>>>> Secondary Modern school which was staffed by mainly (Welsh) ex-military
>>>> type
>>>> teachers who maintained an iron discipline.
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Yes your perfect classroom world chucked out such
>>> delights as the Krays and Myra Hindley.
>>>
>>> Take you nostalgic rose coloured specs off.
>>
>> LOL and of course in the last 50 odd years things have got oh so much
>> better! and besides nowhere did I say life back then was perfect, however
>> I don't think I'm in a minority in believing that since discipline was
>> totally abandoned in favour of the soft options approach things in our
>> schools haven't exactly improved, I mean can you name one school in the
>> UK back then which had to install metal detectors to find out if kids
>> were carrying guns or knives?
>
> In those days the teachers beat the shit out of kids. Bullied and caned
> them all daily. The outcome was supressed violence in kids who as soon as
> they could hit back at the system via their own kids in the late
> 60's.
>
> You reap what you sow.
You mean as in what's happening now as the end result of > 50 years of
misguided a ideology?
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