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'The Disruption Made Teaching Virtually Impossible. I Could Not Believe What I Saw' (UK)
The Telegraph (UK) ^
| 4-24-2005
| Julie Henry
Posted on 04/23/2005 6:23:18 PM PDT by blam
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I 'X'ed' out the vulgar words. If you want to see them, go to the source.
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posted on
04/23/2005 6:23:22 PM PDT
by
blam
To: blam
Look at the parents and you'll find the problem.
2
posted on
04/23/2005 6:26:04 PM PDT
by
k2blader
(Immorality bites.)
Ping to self for later pingout.
Words fail me.
3
posted on
04/23/2005 6:26:18 PM PDT
by
little jeremiah
(Resisting evil is our duty or we are as responsible as those promoting it.)
To: blam
Introduce a program of having the parents attend as well.
4
posted on
04/23/2005 6:32:58 PM PDT
by
balrog666
(A myth by any other name is still inane.)
To: blam
All three main political parties have pledged to improve school discipline. How, pray tell, does Parliament propose to "improve school discipline"?
Short of making "disrupting the class" a capital offense, that is...
Government policies doubtless contributed to the problem; but there is not a damn thing that they can do that will solve it.
5
posted on
04/23/2005 6:35:11 PM PDT
by
okie01
(The Mainstream Media: IGNORANCE ON PARADE)
To: blam
Get your kids out of publik skoolz, Mate.
6
posted on
04/23/2005 6:37:40 PM PDT
by
WorkingClassFilth
(Get after the RAT's all of you cat people - earn your keep!)
To: blam
In the course of my job, I saw two incidents today that stood out. One was a 8 or 9 year old kid with a mohawk. The moment I saw the kid I said to myself he probably has some violence issues. I was stereotyping, making presumptions and reminded myself as such and then a second later the kid started punching with one hand his other open-palmed hand, obviously pissed off. I laughed just because my instinct had seemed to prove true. Just a moment but I am sure that if a got a look at the kid's school record I would find disciplinary problems.
The other was in a low-income housing project where, again, an 8 or 9 year-old was involved (I do door-to-door customer service). In this case the kid was walking up with a rock in his hand and a larger kid, maybe 15, made it clear to the kid that he would be pummelled if he followed through on his obvious assault attempt.
There have always been punk kids but I'm sure both of these kids are the result of dna, bad parenting and a overly-liberal society.
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posted on
04/23/2005 6:38:53 PM PDT
by
torchthemummy
("Sober Idealism Equals Pragmatism")
To: okie01
Well, they could start by getting handcuffs from Florida..LOL
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posted on
04/23/2005 6:39:59 PM PDT
by
Txsleuth
(Mark Levin for Supreme Court Justice!)
To: blam
To: blam
I don't think anyone thinks that taking a cane and beating children was a good idea. Read Roald Dahls book BOY if you think so. It was cruel.
But you had an education system who went from using corporal punishment as a deterent to using nothing- snap... just like that. There wasn't a process to it. There wasn't an alternative introduced. So now you have a whole generation of parents who are clueless- who think the school discipline should stay in the schools. And don't want to involve themselves.
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posted on
04/23/2005 6:42:14 PM PDT
by
LauraleeBraswell
( We must stand behind TOM DELAY!)
To: blam
This is where the NEA is taking America, too. The combination of Socialism, Political Correctness and a monopolistic school system and here you are.
Pray for W and Our Troops
11
posted on
04/23/2005 6:43:27 PM PDT
by
bray
(Iraq, freed from Saddamn now Pray for Freedom from Mohammad)
To: blam
How much more needs to happen before things change?
12
posted on
04/23/2005 6:46:22 PM PDT
by
Podkayne
To: okie01
Well, I claim no familiarity with British law, but I can think of a few ideas.
* Banning severely or repeatedly violent students from regular schools, and compelling their attendance at military-style alternative turnaround schools.
* Allowing teachers to use physical force to defend themselves and other teachers or students from bullies without facing criminal or civil penalties.
* Banning lawsuits against teachers or schools for disciplinary action that is not excessively and disproportionally violent; and allowing corporal punishment for lesser offenses.
* Allowing school security guards and police officers to carry, draw, brandish, use, and kill with firearms under the same conditions permissible against criminals on the street.
* Forbidding school authorities from interfering with investigations into or prosecutions for actions that would be considered as criminal if they had occurred outside school property, or from passing rules and regulations allowing or requiring punishments less severe than otherwise required by law.
Involving parents probably won't help; the parents either (1) fear their own teenage children, (2) don't care about the miscreants, (3) don't believe the teachers, or (4) reward bad behavior. Teachers probably recognize this, and have considered those parents who are impressionable.
However, I will propose:
* Making parents criminally and civilly liable for the misdeeds of their children in schools, as if the parents performed said misdeeds themselves.
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posted on
04/23/2005 6:48:55 PM PDT
by
dufekin
(United States of America: a judicial tyranny, not a federal republic)
To: johniegrad
"Sink estates"? "housing projects"
To: SedVictaCatoni
To: blam
Ya see Sylvia, you get a cricket bat and when he opens his mouth to spill out his filth you....
Just joking. If this is the way parents raise kids today think what we have to look forward to when these yard apes start procreating.
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posted on
04/23/2005 6:51:31 PM PDT
by
Americanexpat
(A strong democracy through citizen oversight.)
To: dufekin
* Making parents criminally and civilly liable for the misdeeds of their children in schools, as if the parents performed said misdeeds themselves. That would have a meaningful positive impact.
But can you imagine such a bill actually being passed. Either in the UK or the US?
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posted on
04/23/2005 6:53:15 PM PDT
by
okie01
(The Mainstream Media: IGNORANCE ON PARADE)
To: blam
Government schools are evil.
To: blam
I used to spend a lot of time and money trying to help the public schools here in Panama. One of the schools did not have a kitchen to cook food for the kids and for many kids the meals they got at school might be the only one they ate for the day. Also, the area in front of the schoolñl was grass and mud and because this is the tropics it rained a lot and the kids could not go outside for recess.
I paid for the materials to build the school and pour concrete in front to make an area for the kids to play and hold Assembly's. I was promised by the parents that they would help construct both.
Well, that didn't happen and I had to pay workers to come in and construct both. Then I purchased food for the kitchen, I could not get the mothers to come help with the cooking.
Classroom discipline was the worst I had ever seen. I don't do much civic work anymore. Parents have to get involved in the schools if they really care about their kids. This isn't just a problem in America and Briton but all over the world.
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posted on
04/23/2005 7:02:53 PM PDT
by
Americanexpat
(A strong democracy through citizen oversight.)
To: blam
I went to public schools in the 70s and 80s and never saw anything like this. I assume that a "supply teacher" is a substitute teacher. I think kids do tend to take more advantage of a substitute teacher than they would a regular teacher though.
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