Teach your children well, as the song goes, and in Greece what they are learning more of is that it’s okay to be violent, that women can be beaten with impunity, politicians have the right to berate and assault underlings, and if you don’t like a classmate or have a beef with one the answer is to beat them because nothing’s going to happen to you.

Students can be expelled for using a cell phone in class but not for assault, leniency the extension of a culture leaving many teachers cowed in fear of parents or their own peers if they’re strict. After all, it’s what students see in society.

Greece’s schools are beginning to look like a Blackboard Jungle, with timorous teachers urged to give everyone an A and students – spurred by social media – running amok, with learning on the back burner.

Is it any wonder universities are too often places of violence? College students who can be admitted with failing grades and aren’t required to graduate or attend class have occupied classrooms and attacked professors and staff.

Police recently arrested a 14-year-old schoolboy who threatened to beat in the face of a teacher who said he couldn’t use a cell phone in school, the government only now vowing to implement penalties for doing so.

When the English-language teacher in school asked him why he was using a cell phone in school, the second-year middle high school pupil reportedly told her “I’m going to break your face.” He was taken to the principal’s office and promptly broke a picture frame.

While America has become a big discount gun store with so many mass shootings they are being pushed back in the news, Greece is seeing rising youth violence because youths have been allowed to be violent without consequence.

A journalist – not named – beat his wife. Hospital workers are attacked by frustrated patients waiting hours to be seen in a health care system that’s a rung above dystopian conditions, hospitals even without toilet paper or toilet seats .

While the #MeToo movement bringing attention to domestic violence saw programs put in place to help women, the crime of beating them, stalking them, raping them, and harassing them still isn’t considered a felony in many instances.

Greek police responding to domestic violence have a manual which says scratches, slaps and bruises on arms, legs, and feet aren’t abuse unless it’s ongoing behavior – it almost always is – and a woman who’s taken a beating isn’t about to tell the police it happens all the time.

By that standard, the torture of falaka – beating the souls of feet with shovels, a practice favored by the military junta from 1967-74 – was a misdemeanor too, the manual also advising officers that the woman should be questioned to see if the beatings are regular.

“In this way, it can be ascertained whether the crime of slight domestic bodily harm with continuous behavior can be substantiated,” said Kathimerini earlier, adding that a police source not named said it could lead to the violence being ignored.

That was revealed a few weeks after 28-year-old Kyriaki Griva was stabbed to death – outside a police station where she went seeking protection from a stalking ex-boyfriend but was told to go outside and call for a taxi.

The paper said at the time that at least 80 women had been killed in four years by men they knew, but male-dominated Greek society still sees women as submissive breeders who belong in the kitchen and the bedroom, not the boardroom or upper management.

Students see this early on, and especially in high school and there have been repeated cases of bullying and students – especially girls – being beaten senseless, almost always captured on cell phones by other students not trying to help but licking their lips waiting to post in on social media.

Consequences? None.

A 14-year-old girl said to be smart and beautiful and in charge of recording student absences – seems like that just might be the teacher’s job – was jumped by a gang of two dozen students, mostly girls, jealous of her and apparently angry she had to keep the record of those who don’t go to class or are late.

It was a well-planned and savage attack and the perpetrators put out an alert on social media to get a mob there to watch. And they gleefully did, the victim knocked to the ground as the attackers tried to set her hair on fire and strip her to her underwear. Talk about entertainment. Video instantly, not at 11.

What do you expect? Citizens Protection Minister Takis Theodorikakos said the rise in teen violence was a problem but that, “police should not arrest 15-year-old children and send them to justice.” What’s the lesson right there?

Nothing of any consequence is going to happen to the attackers as the story fades until the next attack or scandal. A medical examiner – it could have been a coroner – said the victim had bruises everywhere and the video shows the brutality.

It happened because society, the government, and parents of attackers make it happen, because that’s what’s learned at school and it won’t stop until there is real punishment, not acceptance. Put that in the police manual.