been to one involving my neice some years ago in invercargill. Waste of time really (sad to say). but then she did end up living with her gandmother for 1-2 yrs and straigthen her out till her father came up from invercargill (but by then she was @ 16yrs old so was legally considered an adult.
/fame suit on, hops onto soap box.... Think it's time to put some of the Political Correctness in the bin and bring back some common sense. Teach the darlings what is right and wrong, teach them that for every action there is a reaction (good or bad). Have teachers introduce children to more of the concepts above (perhaps a bit more forcefully than it is currently). At the age of intermediate have those errant children face tougher consequences (in case of vandals get them to build replacement items - letterboxes as an example). have parents face responsiblities of parenting also when kids are younger or have those children removed and fostered out to childless couples (I know opening a can of worms here etc). /fame suit off hopping off soap box I know the system of the 50's & 60's wasn't exactly ideal but in many ways society was much better than today. On Wednesday 10 January 2007 16:48, Robert Fisher wrote: > On Wednesday 10 January 2007 3:40 pm, Olwen Williams wrote: > > My letter box got ripped out and tossed in the ditch the other day. > > I've been pondering installing a wireless motion detecting webcam with > > a solar-charged battery being recorded by a server. It can't be that > > hard. > > There were 8 out of 10 boxes in our street vandalised the other night. > > Number plate recorded by the manual (human eye) method. Little pr**ks were > caught. Apparently they had done Beach Road before our street. > > "Would I like to attend the family group conference?" > I don't think so - they probably do not have a family. > > Rob
