It's not so much shame as a lack of responsibility. People need to know that they cannot act in an anti social way with impunity. An individual's rights must not allow them to infringe those of others.
Once again, I think of my experiences of being picked on and the way it has damaged my social life, career and relationships, and the way the main culprits went unpunished. Despite always being in trouble with the law and making no effort at school, these people have basically been rewarded and allowed to prosper. Did anyone get told off for spitting at me on the sports field because I couldn't catch a ball (brain damage strikes again)? No!
My proposals earlier cannot be used to discriminate against any racial or religious group, any income group, any vocational group or anything else. They are about decency.
We need to links rights and responsibilities. ASBOs don't work, but I suspect braiding ASBO onto an offenders forehead would, as would kneecapping. However, hurting their so called image would. So I propose making offenders were an item that identifies them as offenders. I might make them cool to their peers, however, a few restrictions will make them think twice. I would propose:
Banning them from buying alcohol.
Banning them from sporting or other public events, pubs, clubs, etc.
Encouraging shopkeepers to serve them last, even if their at the front of a queue, other are to be served first.
Banning them from international travel.
Making them wear the identifying item to interviews, etc.
Perhaps kneecapping was a better idea?
Regarding education, we need to differentiate between traditional, hard (and useful) subjects such as Mathematics, the Sciences, Engineering, IT based things and (grits teeth) traditional intellectual subjects like History, Geography, English or foreign languages, and waste of space ones like media studies, leisure studies (WTF?), etc. The desire to get bums on seats means than these easy options have come to the fore. This must stop. We need to place value on intellect and common sense, and hard work etc. To my mind the person who leaves school and joins the Army and does well, the person who leaves school and learns a trade, and the person who does on to study (say) Engineering have all done well. All three are valuable and contribute to society, unlike the feckless petty criminal or the celebrity worshiping media studies student who would be better off doing a basic skills course.
Ex service personnel can often be found as mature students, where they do well due to having discipline and self reliance.
As for dumbing down of TV, well I don't know what the answer is but I agree. I cannot stand the shallowness of things like Hollyoaks or things like that. I was/am a fan of Bottom, whilst much of it was toilet humour many of the jokes were quite sophisticated, or the Simpsons with its parody on real life. Compare these to Little Britain or other shows which depend on simple lines delivered repeatedly, where the viewer appears not to be trusted to decide what's funny and what isn't.
Must stop rambling. I'm off to commit some exercise!