Bullying seems to be on the rise in Australian schools, kids as young as 12 and 13 are stabbing one another and victimising other students. It’s obvious there is no solution in place to fix this, “Oh, Tommy nearly killed Lucy with a fishing knife, so lets just suspend him for a week or so, then he can come back and finish her off” – discipline is a fucking joke these days.
I’m in my really early twenties, so I’m young (in-case you want to know that). But when I went to school, I remember nearly being expelled (not suspended) for having too many absent days in year 12. Kids are killing each other and bringing knives to school, and only get suspended, yet I nearly got expelled for having too many days off? Where is the fucking justice and focus here?
I swear all of the stories I’ve heard from my parents and their time at school, it makes modern day schooling sound like a holiday camp. My mother recalls getting hit with a hard handled feather duster for only talking in class. My father getting the cane once because he was late to school, I think those kinds of extremes need to be brought back into schools immediately.
Bring back the cane, set-up some kind of hard labour detention program within the school which would make kids who did something wrong stay back after school hours and do work with the groundsman or make them come in on a weekend and do it. Is something like that really that hard to implement? Nope. Will the governments ever do something like that? Nope.
I find it comical and sad that the government is spending millions of dollars and wasting time on implementing an internet filter to protect kids from bad websites on the Internet, yet they’re not doing something about physical abuse happening in schools. Would you rather the government protect your kids from being stabbed or protect them from opening up a pornography website?
How about the government funds some school discipline programs, and perhaps implements self-defence classes into school. Get a martial arts expert, or ex professional boxer to come in and train kids at school to know the basics of defending themselves. Make it mandatory while you’re there.
Check out this news story which kind of inspired this opinionated rant: http://www.news.com.au/story/0,1,26803685-421,00.html
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