Hello, my name is Ariel and I am new to this discussion list. I am a student of applied anthropology at UCSC and I am currently researching the issue of school violence for a senior thesis. My project will use Gregory Bateson's hypothesis of double-binds and schismogenic systems to try and explain how we have come to be in such a muddle. I welcome all sources of quotable reference from any point of view in this research, and would be grateful for any and all assistance that you might provide.
School violence is at an all time high because of a lack of discipline.
Neither parents or teachers can not discipline kids today without the fear of being arrested for abuse. The kids today know that and essentially have the upper hand. I have seen parents and teachers threatened by kids. I heard a child telling his mother this in a grocery store. The laws of today have literally tied the hands of parents and teachers.