My wife is a teacher in a London primary. All the staff love the school and those that leave want to come back. Not one has gone on strike and the vast majority were in and teaching key workers through lock down.
A lot of it is down to bad management in the schools not the govt.
To make a head teacher you basically take someone who has been to primary school, secondary school, uni and then back into school and make them a very senior manager of a multi-million pound originisation and it often doesn’t work. They have no real world experience.
Behaviour in schools is at an all time low in part due to the issues mentioned above. But another large contributing factor is social media.
The rise of social media gives lots of teenagers the idea that committing a crime will go unpunished, because hardly anybody ever shows the video where they are arrested.
When a school shooting happens in America you’ll often see a video from a psychologist that has been going around for a few years that points out that to deter shooters in future you don’t say their name, don’t give them the notoriety they seek. When future shooters see these incidents they see how much fame and notoriety they get and chase that as something to achieve.
They see things like this happen all the time on social media and they don’t see the consequences. This makes them think that if they do the same then nothing will happen to them.
That incident in McDonald’s is a good example. That happened in August of last year and was recorded by several people with clear shots of faces of those involved.
Has anyone heard of any consequences for any of those people? I sure haven’t.
It was the same earlier this year with protests about certain schools locking toilets. I know a teacher at a school who was telling me that they had protests from their kids against this, yet their school doesn’t lock their toilets. A few of their kids had seen the memes on social media and decided they were going to use it as an excuse to get out of class and be disruptive.
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13 year of underfunding and mismanagement?
No, it’s Laura the Tory Stooge.
So it’s the fault of over-regulation/the “blob”/the “anti-growth coalition”/take your pick of any other scapegoat you care to name.
There needs to be an entirely different approach to education full stop. Surely with all our technological advances we have moved past the current classroom model?
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My wife is a teacher in a London primary. All the staff love the school and those that leave want to come back. Not one has gone on strike and the vast majority were in and teaching key workers through lock down.
A lot of it is down to bad management in the schools not the govt.
To make a head teacher you basically take someone who has been to primary school, secondary school, uni and then back into school and make them a very senior manager of a multi-million pound originisation and it often doesn’t work. They have no real world experience.
I can tell you what’s happening in schools.
They’re underfunded. They’re understaffed. And they’re [being forced into becoming academies](https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/british-education-schools-academies-labour-b2032906.html) so that private companies and their investors can take over, continuing to bill the government anyway while reducing services.
Behaviour in schools is at an all time low in part due to the issues mentioned above. But another large contributing factor is social media.
The rise of social media gives lots of teenagers the idea that committing a crime will go unpunished, because hardly anybody ever shows the video where they are arrested.
When a school shooting happens in America you’ll often see a video from a psychologist that has been going around for a few years that points out that to deter shooters in future you don’t say their name, don’t give them the notoriety they seek. When future shooters see these incidents they see how much fame and notoriety they get and chase that as something to achieve.
It’s the same psychological effect that teens are exposed to when they see other [teens ransacking a McDonalds](https://metro.co.uk/2022/08/23/nottingham-mcdonalds-ransacked-by-50-teenagers-who-jumped-counter-17227638/), or [vandalising school toilets.](https://www.pressandjournal.co.uk/fp/news/inverness/5328718/toilets-inverness-royal-academy-duncan-macpherson/)
They see things like this happen all the time on social media and they don’t see the consequences. This makes them think that if they do the same then nothing will happen to them.
That incident in McDonald’s is a good example. That happened in August of last year and was recorded by several people with clear shots of faces of those involved.
Has anyone heard of any consequences for any of those people? I sure haven’t.
It was the same earlier this year with protests about certain schools locking toilets. I know a teacher at a school who was telling me that they had protests from their kids against this, yet their school doesn’t lock their toilets. A few of their kids had seen the memes on social media and decided they were going to use it as an excuse to get out of class and be disruptive.
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13 year of underfunding and mismanagement?
No, it’s Laura the Tory Stooge.
So it’s the fault of over-regulation/the “blob”/the “anti-growth coalition”/take your pick of any other scapegoat you care to name.
There needs to be an entirely different approach to education full stop. Surely with all our technological advances we have moved past the current classroom model?