"Return to those days"? When were those days? When I was a schoolkid in the Eighties, standard school policy was to punish every participant in a fight. There was no recognized right to self-defense for "minors". If it's a rite of passage, why was it punished even in the unwoke Eighties?
"Return to those days"? When were those days? When I was a schoolkid in the Eighties, standard school policy was to punish every participant in a fight. There was no recognized right to self-defense for "minors". If it's a rite of passage, why was it punished even in the unwoke Eighties?
When I was in elementary school in the fifties/early sixties, teachers always determined who started it on the playground. There was no punishment for self defense or protecting others.
"Return to those days"? When were those days? When I was a schoolkid in the Eighties, standard school policy was to punish every participant in a fight. There was no recognized right to self-defense for "minors". If it's a rite of passage, why was it punished even in the unwoke Eighties?
The decline has been going on for a long time.
When I was in elementary school in the fifties/early sixties, teachers always determined who started it on the playground. There was no punishment for self defense or protecting others.
That was better, but still not good enough. I object to the ageist double standard by which kids are expected to fend for themselves in a Hobbesian state of nature while adults have the benefit of institutional justice. The successful experiment of the Sudbury Valley School and its judicial committee system has proven that institutional justice works well for kids, too. https://www.psychologytoday.com/intl/blog/freedom-to-learn/201006/freedom-from-bullying-how-a-school-can-be-a-moral-community