[punky]

All that happened a lot when I was at school. Not really in front of the teachers of course.

Swearing - Every other word. Even while teachers were around, so long as it wasn't directed at a teachre.

Fighting - not so much in school, but outside it was quite common. Pupils in my school used to arrange gang-fights with nearby schools Ilford County High used to like those.

Pornography - Not downloaded through the school obviously, but porn mags (and we aren't talking Fiesta and Razzle here), and this was when I was at prep school. While I was at my secondary, seriously hardcore stuff was swapped across the network, sometimes in computer lessons.

And this is at a private school! Gawd knows what happened at my local state schools.

None of this suprises me. Teachers' hands are so tied, and so overworked, that often there isn't much they can do. If they do find someone doing what they shouldn't be, they get expelled, and 99 times out of 100 they go before the school board, the old man forces the kid to say a fake appology, or he'll belt the crap out of him, and the board forces the school to re-take kide.

Swapping porno and swearing should be the least of people's worries about schools atm. Violence inside schools, with bullying, fighting, and the weapons kids take into school, is reaching unhitherto unseen, and almost uncontrollable levels. Drugs is also very common in schools. A few kids at my school drank during school sometimes. Its got a lot worse now with cannabis smoking and dealing, as well as alcohol nowadays. Half the time, teachers have no idea whats going on, its too easy to hide it from them.