6/8/01

Bad Behaviour

Don't go and teach British 'monsters', warn teachers recruited from violent townships

Thanks mostly to the hysteria created by children's charities and to the nonsensical politically-correct educational ideologies followed by our teachers for the past three decades, there are now literally millions of children and adults who have failed to be educated and socialised properly. 

The costs of this to our society have been, and are, truly MONUMENTAL. 

It has taken billions upon billions of pounds - and, hence, the associated expertise, energies and resources that such money would bring - away from so many areas that desperately need them; the NHS, pensioners, science and medical research, the roads, the infrastructure, the legal system and, of course, education itself.

The cost of crime ALONE is measured in billions. The lawyers, the police, the prisons, the social services, the probation services, the courts, the officials, the property damage, the hospital bills. 

BILLIONS

And it doesn't stop there.

We all pay every day in terms of our reduced safety when walking down the street as others are more violent, more intimidating and less caring toward us - and so we travel by car - and we insist on taking the children everywhere inside one. This clogs up the traffic, which increases the cost to business and raises pollution levels as well as depriving those stuck in the traffic jams from actually working those hours that are lost to it.

We pay higher insurance premiums for our cars, our houses and our property, and we daily pay some significant extra money for all our goods to cover the costs of shoplifting and fraud. We protect ourselves with stronger locks and bigger keys, and we fork out for alarm systems and other security devices to make us safer.

But it doesn't stop there! What about all the hidden crime associated with, say, being successfully 'ripped off'!? Conned - by the builder, the car mechanic, the plumber, the decorator, the salesmen, the doctor, the lawyer.

Such things as these don't even count in the statistics of 'crime' and its costs.

Crime costs billions.

Further, the negative social and psychological effects of failing to socialise and educate so many millions of people also require billions to ameliorate them.

For example, as a result of the massively increased difficulty experienced by parents when it comes to controlling their children, many have actually given up. 

There is no question that family breakdown has been increased significantly by the serious emotional burdens now being imposed on parents when having to deal with their very own children - some 20% of whom, it now appears, are in real need of some professional therapeutic intervention, or drugs, to prevent them from actually damaging themselves or others. 

This has undoubtedly contributed to the well-documented increase in the number of breakdowns of personal relationships and it has given rise, therefore, to large increases in mental illness, mental instability, psychological depression and insecurity.

But further HUGE costs are also incurred by the nation in terms of the very education that is lost by pandering to those groups who have disempowered both parents and teachers. Not only has the country suffered a long-term, direct loss in terms of the potential economic resources of so many citizens (7 million of who, in the UK alone, are now functionally illiterate) but it is clear that even those who end up going to University are actually arriving there with standards that are well below where they once were.

The failure to bring up our children properly has also cost a fortune in terms of funding the educational system itself. 

For example, it is has not been possible, for some time, for a teacher to teach effectively a class of 30 children. Why not? In some countries there are classes of 50 or 60, with the children being effectively educated to very high standards. 

Well, of course it is impossible for teachers to teach effectively when such a high proportion of our children are disruptive or difficult to keep in line.

A further cost that runs into billions is incurred by the attempts to bring back education to those who had failed at it when they were children i.e. the costs of trying to have another go at bringing these folk up to a reasonable standard.

So much harm has been done to the nation, and so many potential goodies have been lost to it, simply by pandering to the child-centred and child-abuse hysteria-mongers for so many long years (the 'self-appointed' experts, as Prince Charles referred to them) that one feels very justified, not only in getting angry, but in targeting these troublemakers and damning them.

Also see Smack those Bottoms