The BBC have a story about Sir Alan Sheer's report into poor behaviour in schools. It looks to me as if he wants more scare resources diverted away from the classroom and pumped into a small number of badly behaved students.
This part of the Sir Alan's report is nearly, and I stress nearly, right. He accepts that schools cannot cope with such behaviour. Well done. That's not because we are hopeless, it's because we have other things to do - like teach the mass of the populaiton who behave and want to learn. Take the thugs away and give them proper support - but don't do it schools. Give them medical or behavioural modification treatment in places where throwing chairs, spitting, swearing, hitting biting and kicking can take place without risking the health, education and safety of the bulk of the population. Let's face it - no matter how much help we give very disruptive kids they will not be sured over night and so will continue to disrupt lessons, damage life chances, waste resources and cause stress.
One more thing - Keep those bloody social workers away from my classroom Sir Alan.
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