I am a preservice teacher with years of social work employment under my belt. I spent ALL of my social work years with children who have excessive behaviour problems. I firmly believe that society will never see a permanent change in behaviour of children until the adults can learn to work together consistently...every single person has to be on the same page.

As for the t-shirt incident, I can recall a student coming to school with a t-shirt that proclaimed in large, bold letters, FCK ME (on the front) and The only thing missing is U" (on the back). The parents were unavailable to bring a new shirt so we simply had the student wear the shirt inside out. Another shirt on a 9 year old...."I went to Hooters for the food." On the back, "Liar." Again, we had the student wear the tshirt inside out. Just a thought.

Michelle