On Fri, 26 Mar 2004 21:42:14 GMT, Jaques d'Alltrades
wrote:

The message
from martin contains these words:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/wales/3568245.stm

"sit at the back of the court for 30 minutes until lunch" and consider
yourself punished or would you prefer the GBP417 fine?

If he sticks to his statement the magistrate(s) has/have been a lot
wiser than they are being given (dis)credit for.

If you feel like seeing other instances of curing bad behaviour by
rewarding it, a good book to read would be 'That Dreadful School' by
A.S.Neill. Well, it's a good all-round book in many ways other than
that.

If you want to see the results of rewarding bad behaviour take a hard
look at UK and the Netherlands.