Vocal Voices

Official statistics show that in a year 8,030 pupils, aged 5 to 11, were expelled from UK schools for attacks on staff.

Teaching unions say that figures may be even higher, as teaching staff are discouraged from making complaints.

Surprised? - I'm not. I foresaw this years ago - when they banished the cane.

What's the point in expelling them, anyway ?

This country is going downhill rapidly.

They know the teachers can't do anything. What else do people expect.

Lax discipline has been creeping in for at least four decades, maybe five.

Today's primary teachers were brought up with that new thinking. They themselves were not disciplined in the same way as previous generations, so they do not how to instil it or what it even is.

Modern teachers and modern teacher training are part of the problem.

This isn't news to me. This week one of the staff at my wife's school was kicked by a six year old boy who regularly attacks both staff and pupils. They managed to get another child placed in a more appropriate environment last year; he used to explode with rage on a regular basis, throwing things, kicking and biting.
C says that there has been a sharp rise in children with special needs and pupils with problems whether behavioural or otherwise in the last ten years. She says it has been really noticable.
One ex-pupil has allegedly committed really serious crimes - he's 12.

Who was responsible in government for the removal of parental authority, control and discipline?
Parents were actually taken to court by their offspring, "Childrens Rights", this Liberal twattish law was also applied in schools hence the lack of power and authority from teachers who face action if they even grab a brat who is behaving outrageously and disrupting the class.
In children's homes carers are not allowed to hold or comfort a distressed child, they cannot stop youngster's taking off overnight I think these bloody stupid laws came in when Harold Wilson was in power.. Someone will put me right...