According to the recent Ofsted figures, over 50% of secondary school teachers never drive uncontrollable pupils out of classrooms for senior managers to discipline them,12,5 % of them do not want to keep children at school after lessons and over 25% never shout at yobs. The majority of schools state they have replaced the traditional method of pupils’ punishment with the system of praise and rewards to encourage their good behavior.
Administrators of many schools are worried about the fact that the lack of classroom discipline may force a lot of teachers to leave their jobs as 20% of English state schools teachers say that pupils’ behavior is not good enough to bear.
Charlie Taylor, a governmental behavior consultant, said that teachers believed it was necessary to introduce particular measures to keep high standards of discipline at schools. It is impossible for teachers to teach and for pupils to study if they are interrupted by pupils’ constant misconduct. To solve the problem, a behavior management subject should be introduced for teachers undergoing practical training.
The Department for Education ordered researchers to carry out a poll of about 1,700 teachers working at English state schools in order to become aware of their opinions about behavior standards and control over pupils. According to the poll results, 25% of interviewees said their schools lacked disciplined pupils and 60% of them stated that this factor caused many teachers to resign from their positions. However, they still did not resort to outdated methods to keep classroom discipline. About 51% of secondary school teachers said they never sent yobs to headmaster’ office, 13% of them did not issue detentions, 28% did not shout at pupils regardless of their behavior. As for primary schools, 95% of teachers avoided leaving kids after lessons to punish them, 42% did not scream at them, and 17% did not send kids to senior managers.
The most popular method to maintain discipline of pupils is considered to be the system of praise and rewards. Most teachers also contact yobs’ parents and inform them of their children’s misconduct.
What does it matter as long as when they leave school they are money borrowing workaholics, cannon fodder or cheap to keep labour cost reducing society dividing Jeremy Kyle watching so called stay at home benefit cheats/scroungers. This is education 100% successful. It will be left alone.
Breakdown in families, parenting, discipline all contribute, but certain additives in foods, unregulated media access from the earliest ages all add to the overall malaise. If we were looking for guidance from our rulers. Think again. They created the disaster over many years!
Who can be held responsible for the lack of discipline both at school and in the home??? The bleeding heart do gooders, (many not having children of their own), who forced laws through that stopped parents and teachers from chastising the little darlings….
Charlie who? I’ve never heard of him. Is he a national/world expert on child behaviour?
I believe that this is due to there being very little discipline at home. All too often it can be seen by unruly children being left to their own devices when out with their parents who totally ignore them and let the do as they like. Yet intervene and it is you who is to blame for upsetting them.
I would say the truth is, there are a lot of naughty parents out there who should never have children. Brought up correctly from a very young age, children are a pleasure to have, alot of parents have children for selfish reasons and wouldn’t know what love is?
I agree totally.
Charlie Taylor, “behavioural tsar”. Is this the same “Charlie” Taylor that advocated parents shouldn’t smack their children?
What about those youngsters & their parents who are willingly ignorant? It is better to be dumb than not to be understood.
easy cure its called a clip round the ear worked on the trouble makers in my school days
You think the kids are bad ,what’s going to happen when they are parents?
All too terrifyingly TRUE!