Unacceptable Behaviour

News of a seven-year-old repeatedly stabbing a neighbour with a kitchen knife once again raises the question as to how tolerant we have become of misbehaviour and disobedience, especially when we're told "he's not a bad lad or a wild child." Where I live, I know of a boy in reception class who recently forcefully stabbed a teacher in the leg with a pencil (this is not the same child or school that I recently referred to in Restore Order In Schools). It may not be appropriate to arrest someone so young, but something surely needs to change in society to restore a sense of order and discipline on our streets and in our schools.