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Originally posted by NickSTFU View Post'Disruptive twats' can be dealt with though with the right behaviour management policy backed by a strong SLT.
I visited a school a couple of weeks ago where 'disruptive twats' lasted on average 10 minutes before being removed to the exclusion unit and emails/texts sent to parent/carers.
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My apologies if I misunderstood. I took the earlier posts as meaning that the reason that parents paid for their kids to go private was because there are less 'disruptive twats' in them.
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That is what they meant, I thought. Not much to do with poverty though.
If you move your kids into the private sector because you're worried about disruption, it doesn't matter to you whether the kids doing the disrupting are the offspring of the destitute or of a marquess.Last edited by Lucy Waterman; 04-11-2018, 10:24.
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Originally posted by Lucy Waterman View PostThere's a difference between low level disruption and high level though. It's harder to deal with the former, which can be cumulatively more damaging than a kid dramatically kicking off in a way that clearly requires an intervention.
The school I visited the other week had 4 levels of behaviour management. So, low level disruptive behaviour can quickly escalate to internal exclusion. I thought it very effective and so did the pupils I talked to.
Where I work, we use the 3 strikes policy.
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Originally posted by Lucy Waterman View PostI know a few, but would caveat it in the same way as Kevin.
Oh, and Diane, of course. And Corbyn’s exwife.
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Or in Surrey, where it's totally irrelevant.
I've long wanted to write something about George Pargiter, the only Labour MP ever to represent part of (what is now) Surrey.Last edited by Lucy Waterman; 04-11-2018, 12:28.
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Originally posted by HORN View Post
We can dress that up with phrases such as “smaller class sizes”, “experienced teaching staff” and so on but in essence that’s airy-fairy bollocks. A regular private school of the sort Central Rain describes is no more and no less than a “disruptive twat free zone”.
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Originally posted by Evariste Euler Gauss View PostNo, it means disruptive twats. Is that a tricky concept to understand or do you just want to be pointlessly provocative? Were there no disruptive kids in your classes at school? In some of the classes my wife teaches, there are one or two kids, sometimes ring=leading a small group of others, who are massively disruptive trouble makers who prevent the other kids from getting most of the teaching they are supposed to be getting.
There were indeed some very disruptive kids in my school - it was said to be one of the 'worst' 5 in ILEA, and we even had our own Panorama special at one point. (I went back to teach there, and those disruptive kids took a fair chunk out of me too.) I still don't see why somebody else, on account of having more money than my family, should be able to get a 'better' education than me though.Last edited by johnr; 04-11-2018, 14:20.
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First of all, there is a great deal that can and is being done about low-level disruption. Ofsted, over the last 5 years, has targeted it as the main course of lost teaching and learning time and, as such, schools are cracking down on it in the manner that Nick is talking about. It is, of course, not always effective but, there again, I wouldn't imagine it is in private schools. However, with smaller class sizes, better teacher/pupil ratios and, to an extent, better resources, there is a better chance for low-level behaviour management. Having said that, you are not telling me that those who ended up in the Bullingdon Club, for example, weren't 'disruptive twats'.
Also, this idea of 'disruptive twats' who have to be avoided is, of course, a massive shallow generalisation. Many 'disruptive twats' have SEN issues - often complex sets of many -, abusive, chaotic, unsupportive home lives, live in poverty or a combination of all. Having taught thousands of children and in over 60 schools, I would say, anecdotally of course, that the amount of ''disruptive twats" who are that way due to pure, for want of a better term, devilry are negligible. Of those that are, their parents were often teachers and social workers, as it happens, make of that what you will. Give me a slide rule and some time and I could show you workings that many of the behaviour issues are actually caused by an increasingly unequal society and atomised education system that, in turn, is a result of a school system that divides and has divided children by class, religion, gender, parental income and academic selection.
Of course, many parents will look just at the welfare of their own children and say that it is not their problem what reason these children decide to be disruptive and that they are going to just take their children away from them. However, as I mention before, this atomisation is possibly unhealthy for their children themselves in terms of their holistic development but worse for society as a whole. Society and, especially, public services are there to look after the whole population above and beyond the self-centred wishes of the individuals. Well, in theory, anyway.
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You get one shot at an education. Disruptive twats, bad management decisions, whatever, have a lifetime legacy. I really don't buy the idea that putting your children in with disruptive and disrupted kids has some intangible benefit that offsets any detriment to your education.
Further to JohnR's question, ime the disruptive twats - the most violent bullies, the ones who brought drugs into school, the ones who threatened teachers - were disproportionately off the council estate. I don't know how that gets solved. Maybe the strategies outlined above. But it's getting on for 30 years since I was at school and these problems are still endemic.Last edited by Patrick Thistle; 04-11-2018, 20:21.
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It had an intangible - ok, tangible - benefit to me, but I recognise that that's anecdotal.
The problems are indeed endemic, and structural. I'm just not sure that some people being able to buy their way out of them is to the greater good of all of us.
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Originally posted by Patrick Thistle View PostYou get one shot at an education.
Life long learning and all that. I shared an English GCSE class with retired people.
I currently work with young people on engineering apprenticeships who are achieving level 3 maths, despite under achieving at school in the subject.
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Alright. You get one shot at school education. You all know what I mean.
If the 11 years from 5-16 turn out to be a bust then you really have your work cut out to catch up. And if that wasted time was wasted on your behalf by other people then that's just your bad luck.Last edited by Patrick Thistle; 04-11-2018, 21:24.
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I don't want to take this thread off point but for a lot of people it is their one shot at education and I stand by my revised statement that you get one go at school. Trying to make up for a poor education later in life is admirable but not everyone can do that. And a lot don't.
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- Garibaldi, dipped in tea.
It is indeed one shot as you describe, PT. These days. I couldn't afford to go back into education after 18.
For me, it doesn't justify being able to buy your way out of what most people go through at school age.
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- Mar 2008
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- An oasis in the middle of Somerset
- Bath City FC; Porthcawl RFC;Wales in most things.
- Fig roll - deal with it.
Actually, the one thing I think that has improved over the last three or four decades is the opportunities for people to return to education when it is right for them and they are right for it. I went back to college at 43 to do an Access course and many of the people I was on the course with didn't have GCSEs but, within a year long course, were not only going to have the equivalent of GCSEs and A-Levels enough to embark upon a degree but, in practice, were better prepared for University than those that had done the route of GCSEs and A-levels. There were many reasons for this - maturity, the commitment needed to go back to education, more experience informing choices of further and higher education, experience out in the 'real world' of what was needed in University etc. Whatever, universities really welcomed mature students from Access courses and, bear in mind, many of these mature students started the Access course at 19 so even a year or two's more maturity and experience helped. Not only this but I have noticed that, for kids of Bored Jr's age (18), there are many opportunities, should they wish to take them, to take GCSEs that they haven't got. This is, of course, not least down to the fact that they can't enter work until they are 18 but, at least, the opportunities are there and, for some students, from 16-18 is when they grow up and tackle down to work.
ime the disruptive twats - the most violent bullies, the ones who brought drugs into school, the ones who threatened teachers - were disproportionately off the council estate. I don't know how that gets solved. Maybe the strategies outlined above. But it's getting on for 30 years since I was at school and these problems are still endemic.
Even if your statement was true, your point about 'I don't know how that gets solved' can be partly answered by not having a two, three maybe four tier education system that further increases inequality and division in society.
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- Mar 2008
- 29883
- An oasis in the middle of Somerset
- Bath City FC; Porthcawl RFC;Wales in most things.
- Fig roll - deal with it.
After two weeks in the special needs school mentioned upthread, the demographics of schools at the other end of the scale are stark. Like most such schools, boys outnumber girls massively. In this particular school, BME pupils are represented hugely disproportionately. Add to this that, nationally, children from poor families are twice as likely to have special needs, SEN pupils are over six times more likely to receive a permanent exclusion and that a black Caribbean boy with SEN and receiving free school meals is 168 times more likely to be permanently excluded than a white British girl without SEN and you can see which parts of society are at the shitty end of the education stick.
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- Jan 2012
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- The Hammers, until Mark Noble goes.(he's still there, sort of)
- Garibaldi, dipped in tea.
Labour - to the horror of the Telegraph, who got leaked a strategy paper - are apparently considering a VAT charge on private schools, which would cost them 1.6 billion. I hope that this idea doesn't make it to the manifesto, as Labour really should be committing to abolishing them altogether.
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