Surely allowing teachers to assault students is *not the solution to assaults on teachers!

I see the problem as part of a larger one in western society. We just don't like each other or trust each other any more. And we've lost our self-respect.

Go into a shop and you'll probably find an assistant standing behind the counter with a puss on her, chatting to her mates, and treating the customers as an inconvenience.

Leave your expensive mobile phone behind on the bus and it will almost certainly be stolen by its finder.

Leave your house door open and you risk the house being robbed by a passer-by.

I don't know what's happened, but I get the strong impression that the West is in the grip of a collective nervous breakdown. The idea of students and teachers treating each other as enemies, as demonstrated by this thread, is typical of the way of thinking that has become common.

How do we get back our pride? How do we start to respect ourselves again, so we won't steal our neighbours' stuff, so we'll care about our work, so we'll like each other?