The answer, according to the government: Give the disruptive little darlings prizes! Baloney!
THE TELEGRAPH: Difficult and disruptive pupils should be praised and given prizes to encourage them to behave, Government guidance said yesterday.Mark Alexander
A system of rewards - including good news postcards home, special privileges or prizes - is the best way to encourage troublemakers to behave, says the document on keeping order in class. It urges schools to adopt a more positive approach that it suggests will help improve relations with parents "tired" of receiving letters about children's poor behaviour. But the Department for Education document is likely to cause alarm among teachers, who have called for tough action to clamp down on increasingly violent pupils. Disruptive pupils 'should be given prizes’ by Liz Lightfoot and Graeme Paton
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It's coming to something when adults are unable to, or are not allowed to, discipline children in school.
I agree with you: Take the phones off the kids during school time. Italy has just outlawed them in school; and I believe Switzerland is about to do the same.
Discipline begins in the home, naturally. But how can parents discipline their children when they are not there to see how badly-behaved they are? Further, teachers' hands are tied behind their backs. They are afraid of being taken to court.
When I was a child in school, the parents backed up the school when we were disciplined. These days, children are pandered to.
Only last evening, I walked down to the shops to buy some milk. Two teenagers were walking down the road behind me. You ought to have heard their language when speaking to each other! I don't think they uttered a sentence withour using the 'F' word. And mostly several times in one utterance!
Some minutes later, I passed another group of teenagers standing outside a shop. Needless to say, I heard exactly the same sort of language.
When I was in school, children were not angels. But such language would be heard only from the roughest of children.
Just Keeps On Keepin' On. It is too hard to stand for something. What were we thinking?
Bubba
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