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    Re: Children's behaviour at school Archived Message

    Posted by Ken Waldron on March 3, 2020, 7:33 pm, in reply to "Children's behaviour at school"

    This is not news. In fact its par for the course. My other half has also been sworn at on numerous occasions & bitten too: some Authorities advise those working with younger children to have Hepatitis injections. Some have had worse: in one school she worked in a ten year old (yes: ten) attacked a teacher with a broken bottle.

    Two main issues:

    "inclusion": the trendy idea that kids with learning and behavioural issues should be incorporated into mainstream classes. As your niece notes, it all very "worthy" till it happens and then one child takes over the entire class making any kind of teaching impossible.
    One autistic child my partner had in her class regularly smashed up the classroom (including computers) when things didn't go his own way. The problem is there is simply no manpower provision made for mainstreaming these children: "inclusion" has merely become a way of saving money by withdrawal of provision, whilst teachers are neither trained to restrain violent children who are often a danger to the other pupils as well, nor is it their job to do so.

    Modern technology & home life.

    A lot of kids have both parents working and near non-existent human communication with adults. A "home-life" that was once aptly described to me as "...Brought up on Skittles and You-Tube". ("Skittles" referring to the child's diet btw) In truth we have no idea what electronic media culture is doing to the heads of our children.

    Aside from serious attention problems and mobile phones & messaging with games there's also the issue of violent video games; such as "Call of Duty" which is meant to be for eighteen years plus but is the regular fare of many five year olds. Grand theft Auto where you are the criminal likewise. The parent don't care because the kids are "plugged in" and not harassing them: it "keeps them quiet..."
    This is what we are doing to our children in what must be the biggest psycho-social experiment in human history... and as none of it is being monitored or studied we have no idea of the future consequences.

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