This is Fascism, children are being indoctrinated to obey the state, remember the brown shirts in nazi Germany. They say that those that do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it.

Arthur Guy, Gloucester,

Throwing more discipline, searches, etc at these problems ignores the real core issues that are causing them, which is often the fact that parents are unable to help their children with schoolwork and be there for them since the corporate economy is working them to death. I am afraid searches and so on as well only weakens children morally and ethically, since it is teaching them they cannot expect and have no privacy. Children becoming adults who willingly give up their rights and kneel before whatever tyrannical violation of their privacy which comes along is not what we want if we wish to remain a free society. Corporal punishment only teaches children that violence is the right way to solve problems, it does not teach them to have respect for others but that when you are the authority and when you can get away with it, violence is ok. Children can be shown by example, you teach them to respect others and to behave non violently by acting this way yourself.

D. Smith, Atlanta, GA, US

Quote Simon Lomax "However most of the British public are totally up for this extreme socialist tyranny and will think it's all great."

You have hit the nail on the head Simon. The mindset of many British people has changed over the past few years. A people not worthy of their ancestors so it seems.

Per, Rugby, UK