Credit Crunch

The BBC are running this story about kids being worried about the recession. Well it's certainly playing on their mind. Two year 7s were walking past my room and one asked the other for a crisp. The crisp laden child gave the other a small crumb from his jumbo-sized packed. His friend moaned at the rather me meagre offering. "Credit crunch init", replied his friend.

By the way - I should have stopped them eating crisps on the corridor, but I did not. By all accounts my lack of action undermines everyone else and helps create chaos. For that I apologise.

Sheer nonsense - Yes I know it's unoriginal!

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.