Miss Chisholm says like all schools she has violent pupils - “Some of those children who need the most love, show it in the most unloving way,” she adds wryly. But what concerns her is not the lack of respect for teachers, but for education itself. This can not be laid at the door of the child, but has to be blamed on the parents: “If you respect education, you want your child to come to school on purpose -- not as an afterthought.”