For those wondering whether this is the fault of single mothers, I'm a single parent. I've been a single parent for most of 24 years of parenting. I gained a first class degree as a single parent.
My son hasn't ever been in trouble at school. Not once. He graduated from university, lives with a female flatmate where he takes on 50% on the household chores and works full time.
The issue is not single mothers.
The issue may, in part, be very vulnerable women, themselves victims of childhood abuse, who are victims of subsequent relationship abuse, who are taken advantage of by unscrupulous men, who have children they are not equipped to raise with men who are, often thankfully, not in the picture. These boys are often then elevated to 'man of the house' staus from an early age. No boundaries, no discipline because their vulnerable mothers just want their children to love them and they equate discipline of any flavour with the abuse they received as children. They don't know how to parent effectively. By the time they realise, it's too late. Their preteen son is often taller and stringer than them and not afraid to mete put the se kind of abuse these women have lived with all their lives when their trauma responses are triggered and they are once again the victim and this time of a perpetrator of their own creation.
Their are a lot of boys in my school who fall into this category. Some girls too.
Or the girls who are raised to take no shit and be strong, independent women but without the recognition that they are still just children who are arrogant, rude and also lack discipline.
Or the dads who are intentionally raising their sons with incredibly damaging ideas of what it means to be a man (women are beneath them when most of their teachers are female; if someone says something you don't like, punch them etc).
That certainly explains some of the behavioural issues in my school.
Yes, there are a lot of unmet/undiagnosed additional needs but they are not the majority of children by far.
And they are all so aware of their rights. We do a lot on the unicef rights of the child in schools nowadays.
When you try taking their breaktimes off them, they can quote the article numbers of the rights that afford them a right to exercise, to be out doors and to socialise with their friends. The article number of their right to an education when you send them out of the room for persistently disrupting the education of others.
Everything is broken.