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blue toon hibby

Hungry Radge
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Listened to a radio phone-in this morning regarding the education system in Scotland. Apparently, almost 40% of pupils are now deemed to have “additional support needs” and these needs are hugely varied. A P1 teacher told how 30% of her class are still in nappies. Another highly experienced teacher described pupils being incapable of participation in anything as they had been rendered so passive by watching videos on their phones, many even incapable of making eye contact due to constantly looking at screens. Stories of teachers being kicked, punched, bitten and having furniture thrown at them. Ultra-processed food also contributing to obesity and lack of brain development. The future is bright, eh?
 
My wife was a secondary school teacher at St Augs, Penicuik, and Wester Hailes. She has since left, as it was turning her into a husk, and if you were to speak to her she'd tell you the whole gig is doomed primarily because of a perfect storm: 1) parents totally abdicating responsibility for discipline to the schools, and 2) the (so-called) progressive ideas which currently dominate pedagogy rejecting the very idea of discipline.

Add to that as you say the continuing influence of screens and scrolling creating soporific kids, and the picture looks quite bleak.
 
Its a big concern regarding parents abdicating any responsibility.

The twins are 14 and have mobile phones but my lassie checks what they can do with them regarding online.

But they are avid readers which is fantastic and they never seem to cause my lassie or indeed teachers any problems.

But it was so bad during lockdown that teachers were taking food to houses where they knew the bairns were not going to be looked after.

Local businesses made container ready to eat meals that could be collected from the school.

It's a sad situation how this has been allowed to happened.
 
My wife is a primary school teacher. Some of the stories she comes home with are heart breaking. We regularly source winter coats and clothing for PE for kids in her classes. She also goes into work early to operate an informal breakfast club as a few kids regularly come into school without eating. Physical abuse from pupils is becoming more regular and the stories of some kids’ cleanliness is shocking.
 
Unfortunately it's the same out here , in fact our schools go back next week and the teachers are gearing up for strike action due to everything that everyone has mentioned in the above posts,they want the system sorted ,especially class sizes and the cutbacks of EA's even though they school boards know they need them.
 
aggie said:
My wife was a secondary school teacher at St Augs, Penicuik, and Wester Hailes. She has since left, as it was turning her into a husk, and if you were to speak to her she'd tell you the whole gig is doomed primarily because of a perfect storm: 1) parents totally abdicating responsibility for discipline to the schools, and 2) the (so-called) progressive ideas which currently dominate pedagogy rejecting the very idea of discipline.

Add to that as you say the continuing influence of screens and scrolling creating soporific kids, and the picture looks quite bleak.
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The abdication of parental responsibility for discipline is worrying - but the reasons behind it are too - many of the parents nowadays are probably so pre-occupied with Tik Tok, Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, YouTube etc themselves that they’ve lost the skill of holding conversations. Their kids have little chance of developing life skills and it is, as you say, a bleak picture.
 
And where are any grandparents in this as well?

If they passed no life skills on them obviously their offspring won't.
 
Is this perhaps the result of not tackling child poverty? Or not succeeding in tackling child poverty effectively.

Even in the 60s and 70s we all knew of families that had 'dropped' out, a sub set of society demonised if they claimed benefits in the 80s, they had families and generations later these families have never got out the bit.

They don't care, their lives aren't going to get any better, what's the point?
 
Exactly Jack.

And there is that unfathomable thing where you seem to get punished for working.

Bills go up and wages can't keep up. Relying on state benefits to earn enough money to live on and pay the rent.

In my line of work why would you work overtime or seven days a week to have a big lump of that taken in tax?

That's why building trade lads done jobbers for folk. Cash work. They get something from the work they do.

And I know we have spoke of this before but blaming workers for tax avoidance is a bit skewed. What about the customers who don't want to pay workers to include tax?

Many many jobs I've done over the years in the 'nice' bits of town where the customer wants to pay cash to save money.
 
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