Boot Camp For Kids?

"Boot Camp is the answer"?? This only addresses problem children after the fact. The real question is, why are there so many delinquents in the first place and how can we reduce that number dramatically. Here is the problem as I see it; kids today know their rights and it is spelled out to them by every teacher, CPS Social worker and the like and by God you'd better not touch them in any way shape or form. I attended elementary and high school in the 1970's. In the early 1970's where I attended elementary school, corporal punishment was used. My third grade teacher whacked me on the back of my hand with her pointer, and you know what, I didn't misbehave after that! Ask yourself the question; why is it that kids were in control more 50 years ago than today? Why was there less crime? Children respected their teachers because they knew there would be consequences. Time-out's, detention and things of that nature are a joke and the kids know it. It's time we bring corporal punishment back into the schools and throw the Progressive "I'm OK, You're OK" Liberal bums out because there in lies the problem.


John Wilson
Longview, WA.