if only there was… physical education, to burn off the extra energy. if only there where active, activities, to engage them rather than decades of cuts justified on the grounds of look how well this specific group does in sedentary environments.
The council also charge schools for permanently excluding students to about 7k to 10k. Schools that are strapped for cash. The secondary school I work in has an internal PRU to help the situation, but they are still students “not allowed in school” who come to school. We control them but they’re still getting on school buses to and from school. The only solution is more money. And as a dream, cameras everywhere to show parents that their darling angels are anything but.
As for severe behaviour, we are only trained to a certain extent. I’m trained and qualified in restraining some 12 year old who is hitting and spitting at someone, but I’m not comfortable carrying that out to some Y11 16 year old who’s built like Rocky unless I have about 2 other staff present who are also trained.
I’ve worked with sen, semh and behaviour at a secondary school now for quite some time and it nearly always come back to one thing: shitty parenting.
So many parents just don’t care. We have Year 6 transition evening at my school starting at 5pm but parents drop them off to me at half 3. It’s free child care isn’t it?
Let them leave school and get jobs. They aren’t interested.
There’s too many problem families full of complete and utter wankers, schools can’t exclude them even though they ruin things for 95% of good kids.
There were about 50 kids from my sons school on the local high street causing mayhem yesterday and plenty of police there, some kids were arrested and their scummy chav parents came out and started gobbing off at the police – everyone knows they are trouble. I’m so glad my son and his friends have nothing to do with them, he complains all the time about the arseholes ruining lessons.
There seems to be no palatable solution.
I used to work as part of a youth project that helped get kids in danger of permanent exclusion back into school and not end up in PRUs.
But the Tories cut that funding a long time ago and here we are.
On top of everything else theres a lot of kids that just are not going to try anymore because they know they screwed up and what’s the point now? They felt they never had a chance before they screwed up and now whats the point in trying? They are fighting a losing battle with themselves.
Although not all those sent to these schools are somehow ‘doomed’, the reality is that many of them will go further off the rails unless a lot of resources are used to help them. Every million pound spent on this system now will save the taxpayers tens of millions in future social service, NHS, police and prison spending.
Regardless of the human cost, failing these services is economically stupid.
Lots of child psychologists in the comments today.
I had no idea that fixing this stuff was all so easy!
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if only there was… physical education, to burn off the extra energy. if only there where active, activities, to engage them rather than decades of cuts justified on the grounds of look how well this specific group does in sedentary environments.
The council also charge schools for permanently excluding students to about 7k to 10k. Schools that are strapped for cash. The secondary school I work in has an internal PRU to help the situation, but they are still students “not allowed in school” who come to school. We control them but they’re still getting on school buses to and from school. The only solution is more money. And as a dream, cameras everywhere to show parents that their darling angels are anything but.
As for severe behaviour, we are only trained to a certain extent. I’m trained and qualified in restraining some 12 year old who is hitting and spitting at someone, but I’m not comfortable carrying that out to some Y11 16 year old who’s built like Rocky unless I have about 2 other staff present who are also trained.
I’ve worked with sen, semh and behaviour at a secondary school now for quite some time and it nearly always come back to one thing: shitty parenting.
So many parents just don’t care. We have Year 6 transition evening at my school starting at 5pm but parents drop them off to me at half 3. It’s free child care isn’t it?
Let them leave school and get jobs. They aren’t interested.
There’s too many problem families full of complete and utter wankers, schools can’t exclude them even though they ruin things for 95% of good kids.
There were about 50 kids from my sons school on the local high street causing mayhem yesterday and plenty of police there, some kids were arrested and their scummy chav parents came out and started gobbing off at the police – everyone knows they are trouble. I’m so glad my son and his friends have nothing to do with them, he complains all the time about the arseholes ruining lessons.
There seems to be no palatable solution.
I used to work as part of a youth project that helped get kids in danger of permanent exclusion back into school and not end up in PRUs.
But the Tories cut that funding a long time ago and here we are.
On top of everything else theres a lot of kids that just are not going to try anymore because they know they screwed up and what’s the point now? They felt they never had a chance before they screwed up and now whats the point in trying? They are fighting a losing battle with themselves.
Although not all those sent to these schools are somehow ‘doomed’, the reality is that many of them will go further off the rails unless a lot of resources are used to help them. Every million pound spent on this system now will save the taxpayers tens of millions in future social service, NHS, police and prison spending.
Regardless of the human cost, failing these services is economically stupid.
Lots of child psychologists in the comments today.
I had no idea that fixing this stuff was all so easy!