Sharniqua,

I understand your point, and as a child who grew up on ADC/Welfare, I know that my Mom would never have been able to pay tuition, but I also recognized school was an opportunity for me. We would not need to expel many students, because kids learn very quickly when you're serious, and have real consequences. The problem is there is no consequence for misbehavior and the lack of them leads to students who would behave, seeing "everyone else" getting away with it" so why should they behave? Again, the single greatest fallacy we have created is the idea of child autonomy from the earliest ages. Children need structure, they need boundaries and they will test them, unfortunately we will not in any way enforce those boundaries. Also, about the smacking, it won't do any good. I got smacked around by my "peers" for being poor and small, and it never made me respect them or change my behavior, why would it work for schools?

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