However, on further reflection of the matter the situation does become clear. What will become of these children as they continue with life without discipline, without learning how to become socialized? Will they automatically naturally become socialized in future life? Will they continue to deteriorate? Will they continue to disturb others in the classroom making the teacher’s job more and more difficult as time goes on?
When viewed in this way we realize that when looking at society as a whole over the course of the next several decades it is actually easier to discipline the child in the school. In other words, either the school system with the cooperation of social services and the security and police officials have to take the necessary steps in order to train the children in the proper path that their parents will not or cannot do or else they will have to face a rise in anti-social activity both in the classroom and well beyond in the future. If by the price seems to be too great to pay and the problem must be solved on an immediate basis.
It should be noted that even if there is no real cause for stress but the parents perceive a cause for stress this would be sufficient if the parents perceive a cause for stress that makes them feel that they do not want to train their children or to discipline their children in socially acceptable manner.
This may be contrasted to the way in which parents acted during the Holocaust, the Inquisition, or the Exodus from Egypt.
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