Perspective: Why Parents Should Pay for Disruptive Pupils ; As the Government Attempts to Curb Bad Behaviour in the Classroom, Teacher Steve Devrell Believes It's Time to Take the Parents to Task

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I am a teacher and have been for 32 years. I am based in a classroom and I work with kids. It's what a teacher does. But for everyone like me there seems to be an army of advisors and inspectors, policy makers and pontificators who rarely see schools as they really are, yet are empowered to make decisions about the way we work. One of the latest observations from this group of stable door closers is that behaviour in many schools is a cause for concern.

The truth is that teachers have known this for a long time and have tried in vain to alert the administrators of education that behaviour is a real problem and for many years this protests have been largely ignored. We may have received a little sympathy and a lot of patronising, but the situation has not been addressed. Now there seems to be a manic response to the chaos that exists in some schools.

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Perspective: Why Parents Should Pay for Disruptive Pupils ; As the Government Attempts to Curb Bad Behaviour in the Classroom, Teacher Steve Devrell Believes It's Time to Take the Parents to Task

Like all serious problems the reasons for them are complex. If they weren't complex, they would be solved. A general disregard for authority, social and racial tension...

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