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1. Parents and teachers are to blame for violent behaviour;
2. Children think and feel like adults and therefore should have the morality and insight like adults
3. Violent behaviour is because of poor morality (values);
4. All violent behaviour can be sorted out with corporal punishment and even incarceration;
5. Only “bad” children are violent;
6. Designing and enforcing more rules and laws will help children behave better;
7. That nutrition (deficiencies and malnutrition) does not affect behaviour,
8. That children do not behave badly due to high levels of stressors facing them today;
9. That all teachers and their methods are “interesting and good” for children;
10. That children are not allowed to react to poor teacher and parental morality;
11. That certain media images that today’s teens and children are exposed to has no impact on children’s perception and values;
12. That all parental guidance is good and that “parents know how to educate and guide” children;
13. That corporal punishment worked in the past and that there is a lack of “fear” for consequences among kids today and therefore high levels of violence;
14. There is no link between violence in society and children’s bad behaviour;
15. There is no link between poor curriculum design and teaching methods and unruly behaviour;
16. That poorly constructed school environments and class size has no correlation with poor results and bad behaviour;
17. That pollution (chemicals) from the environment has no impact on poor and bad behaviour;
18. That the current curriculum is enough to create better citizens and that “free time –vacuum” (2pm-7pm) has no impact on learner behaviour and morality;
19. That the lack of movement and sport in curriculum’s (and in the larger community) have no impact on learner behaviour in school;
20. That the increased need for drugs and alcohol (as a socially promoted tool for relaxation) is not linked to higher levels of stress in children today;
21. That the messaging around alcohol and drugs does not influence use patterns in children. (for example, please note that for many drugs start with and emanate from the medicine cabinet at home where parents validate pharmaceutical drugs for “medicinal” purposes etc and often drinking is linked to sport and personal achievement i.e. sport teams, models, celebrities etc)

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