Re: Feral children? What about feral society, Britain?

On Sun, 08 Jul 2007 12:35:35 +0100, in uk.politics.misc MM
<kylix_is@xxxxxxxxxxx>, wrote

On Sun, 08 Jul 2007 10:46:39 +0100, MM <kylix_is@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

In the past couple of weeks we have learned that British people are
fundamentally dishonest, stealing, tricking, scamming wherever and
whenever the opportunity presents itself. Now we find that in the
flood-devastated areas looters are taking whatever they can find,
cowboy builders are charging extortionate sums and insurance companies
are sending in loss adjusters who take a slice of the action.
Meanwhile, the government wrings its hands, waffles about how it's
"listening", and the country just shrugs and buys another megabucket
and another gallon of booze.

A couple of years ago someone described the anti-social youth of today
as feral, to which there was great outcry (the British are nothing if
not adept at burying their heads in the sand), but now I wonder
whether it isn't the whole of society that is feral? How does, as Iain
Duncan Smith asks, one fix a broken society? How does, I have to
wonder, one fix a feral society?

MM

Here's another article to go along with the above:
http://preview.tinyurl.com/277x55

MM

I had a friend who had taught for over 20 years in public schools.
His last assignment was in a locally "diverse" school.
He quit in a few months. I asked him why and he said that he had been
physically assaulted 3 times and that he did not have to take it.
His final years he spent in individual tutoring for math and the like -- said
he was so happy to have students who *wanted* to learn..........

FACE

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