“We must also admit that schools mirror society. Moral, religious, and civic education as taught has yet to nurture a genuine culture of respect and empathy.”

- PKR lawmaker Nik Nazmi Nik Ahmad

COMMENT | The most common solution you will hear when dealing with the anti-social and criminal behaviour which is going on in schools is the claim that everything could be solved with a good beating.

Sri Aman MP Doris Sophia Brodi seems to think that our education system has produced a “fragile” generation and she hearkens back to a time when "spare the rod and spoil the child" was the foundation for creating productive adults.

Bagan MP Lim Guan Eng believes a surveillance state and a good beating will ameliorate these problems. Of course, there is talk of increasing police presence around schools.

First of all, there is nothing fragile about...