Recommendations - Where is the Silver Lining?

I think that solutions have to be grounded in the particular contexts in which teachers and students share the same space and develop relationships. Some schools are literal battle grunds because the student-teacher interaction is so bad. Its not just the students who are responsible for this, some of our teachers and principals opt out of their obligation to provide a viable moral direction for the children in their charge. They lose the students long before they start to teach mathematics etc. Moreover we write off students as "problems" without trying. I think we have to start early, by working to help our young children to understand respect, tolerance and acceptance. We also need to be able to identify early those children and young people who are most at risk, first we have to figure out where they are and how to reach them. This means that we have to come up the kind of solutions which relieve them of the burden of blame, often what we have done is place the responsbilty of change on youth without ourselves changing. So we do behaviour modification work, whose behaviour is being modified? Theirs not ours, when in fact some of that modification needs to take place at our end.