Is the education pendulum starting to swing back. After so many years of namby-pamby new age schooling are we about to see a return to the sort of schooling that I experienced.
Where pupils went to school to learn, not just to socialise with their mates. Where pupils understood and accepted the rules of discipline and self-control, where pupils gave basic respect to teachers because they were teachers.
And most of all where the sort of behaviour being experienced by these teachers would have been nipped in the bud.
Head teacher too soft on unruly pupils
So say the teachers of Darwen Vale High School, who have gone on strike due to lack of support from head teacher Hilary Torpey.
“Pupils frequently challenge teachers to fights, push and shove them in the corridors and classrooms and are constantly swearing and insulting them.
But teachers say that when they take the matters to the head teacher she often sides with the pupils instead of staff.”
They claim that when teachers have confiscated the phones, they have been returned by the school’s management – leaving them ‘totally undermined’.
“Five teachers have apparently been suspended since Mrs Torpey took over as head teacher last September.
It is claimed children have realised staff will be suspended if they complain so have started making false allegations.”
This sort of behaviour is not acceptable in any setting. Joe public would be outraged if these kids acted this way in public and yet we as a society seem to accept it in our schools. We do nothing to support the teaching staff. Well its time we did and these teachers are right to strike to get that support
This is just one of many stories in the media recently but I believe it is an indication, a reflection of what society wants and needs. We need a return to basics in education and behaviour
Darwen Vale High School teachers strike: ‘Head teacher too soft on unruly pupils’ | Mail Online.
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