Brits to allow swearing in class

[Guest yod]

well this blankety-blank story chaps my blankety-blank and I'm going to let those blankety-blank blankety blanks know how blankety-blanking stupid they really blankety-blanking are!!!!!

[fenwar]

At the moment teachers in the UK are struggling to deal with disruptive pupils and unruly classes. There are a number of cases where a teacher has been accused of assault when simply attempting to restrain a pupil; other cases of teachers being assaulted themselves, and so on.

I would not be surprised if teachers hear the f-word being muttered a hundred times by pupils during classes. If they were to frogmarch every pupil who swore in class down to the head, the simple fact is that there would be few left in the classroom and no time left to actually teach.

This measure at very least allows some degree of discipline without completely disrupting the class, although I do agree that it could become a distraction and an amusement.

Sadly what is at the root of the problem (in this country, certainly) is a parenting crisis, not a teaching crisis. (It may also be linked to poverty or class but I'm not sure.) I take the bus to work through quite a poor area of Manchester and have regularly seen parents swearing at their children, or ignoring them completely and wondering why they are screaming and running up and down the bus. Kids are equally indisciplined outside of school and will occupy themselves by throwing stones at buses. They are not learning any respect for authority, probably because their own parents don't have any either.

Teachers and, ultimately, the police force, are currently left picking up the pieces. So before you criticise any policy like this, please actually try to understand the situation in many schools in the UK.

[Guest shiloh357]

At the moment teachers in the UK are struggling to deal with disruptive pupils and unruly classes. There are a number of cases where a teacher has been accused of assault when simply attempting to restrain a pupil; other cases of teachers being assaulted themselves, and so on.

I would not be surprised if teachers hear the f-word being muttered a hundred times by pupils during classes. If they were to frogmarch every pupil who swore in class down to the head, the simple fact is that there would be few left in the classroom and no time left to actually teach.

This measure at very least allows some degree of discipline without completely disrupting the class, although I do agree that it could become a distraction and an amusement.

Sadly what is at the root of the problem (in this country, certainly) is a parenting crisis, not a teaching crisis. (It may also be linked to poverty or class but I'm not sure.) I take the bus to work through quite a poor area of Manchester and have regularly seen parents swearing at their children, or ignoring them completely and wondering why they are screaming and running up and down the bus. Kids are equally indisciplined outside of school and will occupy themselves by throwing stones at buses. They are not learning any respect for authority, probably because their own parents don't have any either.

Teachers and, ultimately, the police force, are currently left picking up the pieces. So before you criticise any policy like this, please actually try to understand the situation in many schools in the UK.

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Oh please...

We have the same stuff over here in the U.S. Our inner cities are the most dangerous place to teach in this country. We have kids that bring weapons to school. There are more school shootings than ever really get published nationwide and our schools are almost like war zones in some areas, and even WE would not act such an empty-headed policy.

[fenwar]

We have the same stuff over here in the U.S.  Our inner cities are the most dangerous place to teach in this country.  We have kids that bring weapons to school.  There are more school shootings than ever really get published nationwide and our schools are almost like war zones in some areas, and even WE would not act such an empty-headed policy.

So what would you do?

[Matthitjah]

Grace to you,

(It may also be linked to poverty or class but I'm not sure.)

Poverty has nothing to do with morality. That is the same excuse we get with the Terrorists. They are from under priveledged Muslim homes? The joke is that the 9/11 hijackers were from Rich Saudi Arabian homes. The recent bombers in Britain were from moderate to upper middle class homes.

That is an argument that secularists like to use when their policy's fail them. The fact of the matter is that as society continues to turn away from God it spirals ever downward into the morass. It's moral compass is gone and it is left as in Romans 1 to itself.

Ro

[fenwar]

Poverty has nothing to do with morality. That is the same excuse we get with the Terrorists. They are from under priveledged Muslim homes?   The joke is that the 9/11 hijackers were from Rich Saudi Arabian homes. The recent bombers in Britain were from moderate to upper middle class homes.

That is an argument that secularists like to use when their policy's fail them. The fact of the matter is that as society continues to turn away from God it spirals ever downward into the morass. It's moral compass is gone and it is left as in Romans 1 to itself.

I'm not talking about morality, I'm talking about a lack of practical parenting skills. I'm talking about children from broken, single-parent homes whose parents smoke, drink and swear in front of them.

Ro

[apothanein kerdos]

Illiteracy is climbing here in the US and tests are being dumbed down.....yet we're worried about what's being done over the pond? Honestly, if that was implimented here and they had to write it down and then read it....it'd be a deterrant to them saying it.

[Gerioke]

Maybe it should be manditory for teachers to carry tazers.

Ahhhh for the good ol' days when I was afraid of getting the strap.

[jamie]

"Can the blind lead the blind? Shall they not both fall into the ditch?" (Lk.

6:39).

[Guest mona t.]

Maybe it should be manditory for teachers to carry tazers.

Ahhhh for the good ol' days when I was afraid of getting the strap.

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we still get the strap,good news is we dont behave to badly in school,bad news is we do it on the streets.