RizzyKing

It is all too easy to constantly put the blame on bad parents but in my experience it isn't bad parenting that is too blame it is the system everyone is forced to go through. We are statistic obsessed in this country and thats ok but if there is a problem it is better to sweep it under any carpet then address it in the current enviroment.

I agree with Maggy it is wrong to insist all go the academic route as that simply doesn't suit some and they become distanced from the system through a feeling of personal isolation that isn't helped by being punished with a physical isolation.

I would love to see a system whereby academic study by and large ended at secondary level and the upper level was used to give kids a vocational training of sorts so they leave school at least partly qualified to do a job they choose.

I blame successive governments for this obsession with league tables and statistics and the way funding is decided on those and that is something that urgently needs to be scrapped getting back to good academic basics and a generation of kids that have some clear idea of why they are in school and the benfits of it as many right now don't see it.

We do also need to bring back something be it the cane or slipper or whatever else for those whose idea of a day at school is to cause as much trouble as they can having a usually disproportionate effect on all the other students in the school.

One thing we cannot do anymore is allow the system to put the blame elsewhere for it's failings as they do be it on bad parenting or add which since we have gone to this obsessed system has shot through the roof and get back to personal responsibility and the understanding of how things can affect you even when you don't think they will.

Thats what we have really lost in the UK personal responsibility it has become far too easy to blame someone or something else for your own shortcomings and that is eroding a lot of what was so good about this country.