Time to swing the pendulum back from being waaay too soft with kids and land somewhere in the middle.

Kids today need a good beating - it might knock some sense into them. I say that if an asshat kid is mouthing off and threatening a teacher for example, that the adult should have the right to use force to subdue the said asshat. When I was a teen in school in the 80s, you could be damn sure that we were kept under control when it came to us getting physical with each other or the adults. There was no way in hell I would have stepped up to a teacher back then because I would have had my ass handed to me (rightfully so), and to make matters worse, I would have got it at home afterwards!