We are totally on the same page with this Brian - let me take your comments point by point -
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In my experience, the majority of kids slide back to previous disruptive behaviour after the initial novelty wears off.
Yes and it's partly to do with the fact that you cannot alter or affect the home environment. At least here in the forum, we do not have the parents turning up saying "it's not my son! he's a woooonderful poster! it must be the other ones!"
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Another thing at schools that gets on my goat is the rewarding of bad behaviour. For example, I have witnessed on countless occassions a disruptive pupil being given a reward for having a perfect behaviour card for one week. In my educational region the amount of money being spent on disruptive pupils is disgraceful, it is unbelievably disproportionate. A huge number of disruptive kids get taxied everywhere, I personally know one child who gets a taxi from their home to a special unit, then another taxi into a mainstream school, spends one hour there then another taxi back to unit and another one home again. This kid has been getting this service for 3 years and he is no better behaved now than he was three years ago.
Yes it's totally bizzare - it doesn't work and all it seems to do is indicate to the child that acting out is a quick route to some attention. At the same time, all the "honest plodders" - the kids who just want to come in and get an education get left to their own devices because you are so busy dealing with the same 5%. As for the very bright children, well they carry on in silence and hope nobody notices.
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I realise I am less tolerant than a lot of teachers (I happen to think social inclusion is ruining our schools), but I tend to think there are only so many chances a person should get before I conclude that they are taking the piss.
I'd bring back the borstal or special ed schools for about 5% of the current school population. The result and standards in the other schools would go through the roof.
What about their rights and education? fuck that - what about the other 95%?
(and I've got to honest - this is one of those subjects that unless someone has done the job, I couldn't give a toss about their "viewpoint").
Edited by CK, : No reason given.