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[DESL]

45 yrs ago when I first started senior school we weren't neccessarily well behaved but we were properly disciplined both at school and at home.
I never told my parents when I'd been punished at school as I knew I'd get a repeat dose from them.

 

[libby lou lou]

I'm a firm believer that parents are responsible for 99% of their childs behaviour.
Iwould say this is more common on council estates? low income ?
No excuse in my eyes, but i note on my estate, a lot of kids eating garbage food, butties from the shop, crisps, E numbers.

There is evidence it sends kids off the rails

So, maybe wer'e all responsible, we let it go on because of demand for cheap food.

Plus too many dogooders of course.

 

[Shutpa]

I'm a firm believer that parents are responsible for 99% of their childs behaviour.

You are so right Libby and in my opinion, most teachers recognise that fact.
We see:

THE BLIND - The parents who fail to see that their son or daughter is an out and out thug.

THE WEAK - The parents who on asking their children where they are going at night, accept "Out" as an answer, or don't have the guts to tell them to get off the PS2.

THE CRIMINALS -Those where crime is the parents way of life.

I am sure that this list could go on and on, but the worst type of parent as far as I am concerned, is the one who on hearing that their child has been involved in a major incident, claims that it was the schools fault because the child as bored.

 

[bernardgreen]

and THE UNCARING who did not want the child and now are keen to dispose of it to schools for 7 hours a day.

And I would include in that group parents who have had a child as a "fashion assessory" I know one of those "" We don't like children but one's marriage has to appear normal ""

 

[Shutpa]

Surely you don't mean to say that assault happened 45 years ago? As lots of people on here will tell you, in "the old days" kids were well behaved and properly disciplined, and they're only turned bad recently

1962 to be precise. And at that time, out of a class of, if I remember correctly, 15, at one stage almost half were in a special school for pupils who had broken the law. We had one lad put away for carrying an axe, another for breaking into cars and others for house breaking etc. Once when I locked my car with the keys inside my boss got the 'car specialist' to open it for me. We were asked to turn our backs while he performed the task in seconds.

 

[twm.bwen]

I'm a few weeks into an extended pgce and will start in the classroom next year. To be honest I'm terrified about the exact kin of situation bolo experienced, or even worse, an accusation of sexual misconduct.
When I went to the interview I asked if there was anything to protect teachers like cameras in the classroom.

Frankly camera's would protect both teachers and student from improper conduct, be it badly behaved or violent pupils or teachers. Bbut apparently its against the pupils human rights.

Whilst teaching is certainly a job you don't go into for the money, I'm not going to pretend I'm going into it to help kids. If I was I'd go to a inner city state school with bad problems. I'm not. If I get it my way I'll be in a private school in a good area.
I realise his doesn't guarantee well behaved pupils but the correlation is going to be pretty high!

 

[Shutpa]

I'm terrified about the exact kin of situation bolo experienced, or even worse, an accusation of sexual misconduct.

We are all terrified mate. I have been assaulted by 4 pupils in my career including the headbutting one above. On one occasion, while walking in the corridor behind a well known thug, he backheeled me and almost broke my shin bone. He apologized immediately saying that he had thought that the headmaster was behind him. Expelled! On another occasion when a very large pupil decided to thump me for no reason other than having a large audience, I lost my temper and knocked hell out of him. The next day when his old man came up to knock hell out of me, I was terrified but managed to say that it was not his son that was the problem - it was the company he kept. Result? Father knocked hell out of the son!

My biggest fear however is the accusation of sexual abuse. If a child can accuse me of striking her in front of a whole class, what if it had been just the two of us there? She could have made any claim and regardless of the outcome, mud would stick. Last year I taught an expelled pupil in her own home and the worry was never far from my mind. Now when I take on expelled kids, school refusals or travelling peoples kids, in their own homes, I insist on the presence of a parent.