[West Ender]

You can't blame a generation's behaviour on a television programme. If standards have fallen and teachers can't cope it's because successive governments, in their wisdom, have taken most means of disciplining away and replaced them with "rights".

If a teacher, or indeed anyone in authority, as much as touches a child there's a hue and cry and any young thug who knows a teacher can't even retaliate, if attacked, is going to take advantage of the fact. It doesn't take long for the attitude to spread to a whole class.