It is not hard to control children.It's being bothered to do so that's the problem for some.For a few parents it just interferes with their own pleasures to do so.
I think that getting firmer with parents is the best way to go.Make them take responsibility for their children.Everyone thought it was terrible when that mother in Scotland was jailed because her daughter wasn't attending school.The child did start to go back to school though...I think that if parents won't take responsibilty both in the streets and at school they should be heavily fined and made to go on a parenting skills course.Also a curfew both for such parents and their offspring might be an idea as well.
I also think we might have to rethink the age of responsibility if this downward trend continues.
However having said all that I think that the actual number of cases is still small considering the number of our children that still are behaving and are not any kind of problem.
