Currently teachers are expected to teach and parent America's children. Safety is a good example, I someone knows of a danger and does nothing to prevent an occurance then that person knowing of the danger shares the responsibility and liability of the accident. The shootings in the schools. It is the parents, teachers and co-students responsibility to deal with problems in the schools. I believe this requires an educational effort to teach us all, how to deal with problems.
Some kids do things as a result of peer pressure.
Rules and laws don't seem to be making any headway because some kids don't pay any attention to them. Yes, horror of horrors to the Liberals, I even took it to school. Most of my male classmates had one too. When we took disipline out of the home and the classroom, the decline of the classroom escalated. The decline of the classroom is continuing to escalate.