OUR UNTOUCHABLES

WHAT IS HAPPENING TO OUR CHILDREN? We know that they are capable of murder at a very young age, the James Bulger case proved this. Many of them are out of control and streetwise enough to know that they are being made untouchable by the justice system, as well as their parents, the police; and of course the teaching profession.

It is the teaching profession, it seems, that suffers more than most by the feral nature of many of their pupils. These pupils not only care little about being educated, but their behaviour effects those who care greatly about it.

Statistics made available under the Freedom of Information Act, adds another dimension to their out of control behaviour, and still only covers 45 of the 206 local authorities.

The sexual harassment of teachers by pupils as young as six may or not come as a shock to a public no longer capable, it seems, of being shocked by anything they read about the way many of our children have been allowed to behave, because of the liberal sentiment that has guided our value system for the past 45 years.

As reported in today’s Daily Mail: “In the youngest case a six-year-old boy made sexual remarks to a 49-year-old teacher in the West Midlands, while an eight-year-old boy licked a teacher's leg and grabbed her breast at a school in Cambridge”. The paper then goes on to list other offences including a 16-year-old boy who announced to his class that he was going to rape his teacher…“while other female teachers have complained about being touched on the bottom or breast - with one even saying that she was followed into the lavatory”.

In another case involving a male teacher, a female pupil lifted her dress and rubbed herself provocatively. These young people are the modern untouchables. They can torment the elderly, and kill with virtual impunity just as Venables and Thompson did. Some 90 per cent of those who do such things care little for the forms of punishment (including incarceration) that the state imposes upon them.

They do indeed (as liberal Britain believes) come from ‘broken homes’; but any custodial sentence handed down to them within our modern justice system will never deter or change their behaviour and many liberals also know this. Which is why they call for more community sentencing.

But community sentencing only completes the circle of contempt that these juvenile wrongdoers feel for the penal system. When the gravest of offences leads to a term of confinement that is better than they ever had at home, then the world becomes their oyster and criminality their vocation.

THERE IS ALWAYS AN insipidness about social liberalism. They hope (yes hope, rather than believe) that human nature, if treated with compassion and enlightenment, will respond accordingly. Social liberals, like Catholics, are prone to feelings of guilt and therefore mired by such feelings.

But the modern world in the UK is not like the Dickensian world of the 19^th century. Children are no longer sent up chimneys or put to work in sweat shops of the type Dickens found himself in, by making boot polish – at least not in the UK.

In the 1950s children were given boundaries by both their parents, and had them reinforced by their teachers. Teachers then were a much respected part of the community, and if they felt the need to discipline a pupil, then they received the backing of the parents who knew just what their children were capable of because they themselves believed in behavioural boundaries.

In my time at school we had the slipper, the board ruler as well as the cane. But the former was the nuclear weapon, to be used only by the headmaster in exceptional circumstances.

Today, whether at home or at school, the child seem to rule the roost and if teachers today dare to even offer the merest of criticism of their parent’s son or daughter (let alone issue a punishment), then the parent will be down at the school ready to punch the teachers lights out.

When I attended school, I learnt that rules (called laws in the adult world) were there to be obeyed and if fallen foul of were punished with some form of physical reprimand. All of my contemporaries new the rules and if they ever fell afoul of them knew what the consequences would be and accepted them. Today the children have all sorts of legal protection that guards them from any form of physical punishment. They know they have rights that not only question their teacher’s behaviour, but also their parents.

Is it no wonder that that we live with such an untamed, uncultivated and undomesticated educational set-up.