Never removing a child from the classroom sounds like a lovely idea, but you’re effectively punishing the well-behaved children by continuing to allow a disruption to their education. I also don’t see any good reason why teachers should be made to tolerate physical violence.
Its a perfect storm of an ill considered policy and the fallout of the Covid lockdowns
But if I were a teacher in those schools I’d be looking for safer less stressful work.
Very poor quality reporting, no source, what policy are they talking about? And there are still exclusions in Scottish schools, for much less that assault;
I’m assuming from the tone of the article, they want the right to beat children, which i would expect from the Daily Mail, but lbc? ffs.
There was better behaviour when failure could get you birched, not a fan of the birch but there are happy mediums. Too many people think they can do anything with no repercussions.
Why the hell have we suddenly started taking this permissive attitude towards raising children? Absolute shit show.
They should just make disruptive kids study from home. When parents have to take time off work to then look after their kids I bet both the kids and parents behaviour will change.
Since we have teach them about real life, no consequences is about right.
After all it starts at the top. If the people in charge face no consequences…….
It used to piss me off at school, you would have violent bullies who they would never *ever* expel from school because it “looked bad” and probably altered the school rating.
These same people would often disrupt lessons constantly and they’d never be sent out. I remember one kid would literally delete the lesson files from the computer when the teacher was distracted and he was never punished.
Woe betide you if you ever punch a bully who’s been victimising you for months or years, though. You’ll be suspended before your feet touch the ground.
Ironically the only guy I know who got expelled was a decent kid who was having a terrible time at home and pushed a teacher who kept really having a go at him over something trivial. Instant expulsion. The guys violently attacking younger kids every day? Fine.
The needs of the one outweigh the needs of the many.
Other things that are wrong in education: putting disruptive children with the brightest and hardest workers – it doesn’t raise the disruptive child’s achievement, it just lowers the hard working child’s, and also teaches them that putting in effort just means more work.
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Never removing a child from the classroom sounds like a lovely idea, but you’re effectively punishing the well-behaved children by continuing to allow a disruption to their education. I also don’t see any good reason why teachers should be made to tolerate physical violence.
Its a perfect storm of an ill considered policy and the fallout of the Covid lockdowns
But if I were a teacher in those schools I’d be looking for safer less stressful work.
Very poor quality reporting, no source, what policy are they talking about? And there are still exclusions in Scottish schools, for much less that assault;
https://www.gov.scot/publications/summary-statistics-schools-scotland/pages/8/
I’m assuming from the tone of the article, they want the right to beat children, which i would expect from the Daily Mail, but lbc? ffs.
There was better behaviour when failure could get you birched, not a fan of the birch but there are happy mediums. Too many people think they can do anything with no repercussions.
Why the hell have we suddenly started taking this permissive attitude towards raising children? Absolute shit show.
They should just make disruptive kids study from home. When parents have to take time off work to then look after their kids I bet both the kids and parents behaviour will change.
Since we have teach them about real life, no consequences is about right.
After all it starts at the top. If the people in charge face no consequences…….
It used to piss me off at school, you would have violent bullies who they would never *ever* expel from school because it “looked bad” and probably altered the school rating.
These same people would often disrupt lessons constantly and they’d never be sent out. I remember one kid would literally delete the lesson files from the computer when the teacher was distracted and he was never punished.
Woe betide you if you ever punch a bully who’s been victimising you for months or years, though. You’ll be suspended before your feet touch the ground.
Ironically the only guy I know who got expelled was a decent kid who was having a terrible time at home and pushed a teacher who kept really having a go at him over something trivial. Instant expulsion. The guys violently attacking younger kids every day? Fine.
The needs of the one outweigh the needs of the many.
Other things that are wrong in education: putting disruptive children with the brightest and hardest workers – it doesn’t raise the disruptive child’s achievement, it just lowers the hard working child’s, and also teaches them that putting in effort just means more work.