teach them what...?

You might've missed this but there are plans to give teachers the power to fine children, or more specifically their parents, on the spot for the childs bad behaviour outside of of school.

I am not the only one to think this is one of the most stupid and lazy and responsibilty shirking ideas ever.

Whose resposibilty is it to police the streets? You want the answer? read the question again and what do you see? POLICE OkOk.... smart arses out there will say "actually, no, you don't see police, that's the point" but hold on a minute. Isn't that exactly the point?
Not sure about you but my local area has recently been recruiting more special constables and the presence of real police officers in town has been more noticeable and is in my opinion getting better. I do recognise that the police can't be everywhere but still, should teachers be drafted in to do the work of the police?

Don't teachers have enough responsibilty already?
As it stands, teachers already have a tough job. In schools they are next to powerless to enforce any disciplinary actions and school kids, especially trouble makers just don't have any fear or respect for them. In fact, in a lot of cases, I'm willing to bet my left nut that a lot of teachers are scared of the kids. Knowing this situation, you want to give teachers the added responsiblity of policing and punishing bad behaviour of kids outside of the school?
You have to be a moron not to see that this will only give the children more reason to be disruptive and target teachers with abuse.

And who are you fining anyway?
Slap a £100 fine on a school kid and it is the parents that have to pay. The idea behind this is that it involves the parents in the discpline process and the fine would urge the parents to be more involved in well, "sorting out" their kids.
Unless of course the parents are the same as the kids, in which case you've just made both the parents and children angry at you.

Wonderful.
Great Idea guys.
Keep it up.