English schools to phase out ‘cruel’ behaviour rules as Labour plans major education changes
https://www.theguardian.com/education/article/2024/jul/20/english-schools-to-phase-out-cruel-behaviour-rules-as-labour-plans-major-education-changes
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> Education leaders close to the new government say ministers are planning to change the inspection regime so that all schools are judged on whether they are properly representative of their local community
So a school in a predominantly white area could be marked down for having too many pupils from ethnic minorities? That’s an….interesting approach.
Back in the day, there were a shed-load more primary and secondary class educators that qualified and went into work with a base understanding of child psychology. Now they’re churned out on an assembly line to meet demand.
Age or even experience is not the issue – it’s the severe lack of a well rounded understanding of the process before they step into an inner-city furnace-like environment.
There’s no right way to do this. On the one hand, excluding students who are disruptive will almost certainly exacerbate their problems, but not excluding them negatively affects all the other students.
Inclusivity shouldn’t come at the expense of other children’s education.
If some children can’t function in a regular school then they should be sent to a special school or put in special classes that are equipped to deal with them.
They shouldn’t be sent to regular schools or classes because they harm the education of everyone around them. Every time theres an “inclusivity” drive it ends up turning into just letting all the troublemakers run riot while all the other kids suffer.
Some children simply can’t function in mainstream education, and those kids would benefit from being sent to a specialist school that can deal with their behavioural issues. This whole bollocks of trying to shove all the kids into one school just for the sake of it needs to stop. There’s very little tangible benefit to it, and a whole load of downsides.
God I hate this new government more and more as the days go by. A lot of these “vulnerable” students are really just psychopathic predators who make the lives of others miserable for their own enjoyment. Children don’t have a choice on if they have to go to school so schools should have a moral duty to make schools as violence-free as possible. Fuck Starmer.
A lot of teachers are petty, authoritarian bullies who get off on humiliating and tormenting kids because they couldn’t pass the entry requirements to join the police – I’m no fan of the Starmer regime, but this is a good move
Thing is, if you actually ask pupils if they want strict rules in their school, they always say yes, because they don’t want a small minority ruining their lessons and their future.
I don’t think I’ve ever understood how removing unruly kids from school is the right answer anyway.
At best it gives the teachers a break, that much is true.
When I was at school it was actively a badge that kids would wave. What sort of punishment is giving the kid what they want.
Of course it is tricky as particularly disruptive behaviour can be detrimental to all other classmates but just handing out what is tantamount to a reward doesn’t seem like the answer either.