Tuesday 5 January 2010

Little Netherhampton Primary School: Twinned With Guantanamo Bay

It has been used as a punishment in schools since Victorian times.

Unruly pupils have been made to stand in the 'dunce's corner' by teachers so that the lesson can carry on without further disruptions.
And what's wrong with that, you ask?

Well, according to those people that brought you school leavers unfit to be sales assistants, it's tantamount to waterboarding:
But now health and safety chiefs have warned that the practice is cruel, describing it as a 'stress position' that could breach a child's human rights.
*sigh*
Traditionalists have attacked the idea, saying teachers will end up with no means left to control disruptive-pupils.
Working as intended, I think you'll find...
Nick Seaton, chairman-of the Campaign for Real Education, called it 'a ridiculous idea that compares what goes on in a classroom to Guantanamo Bay'.

He added: 'Discipline is a major problem in classrooms at the moment and teachers have got to have some solutions for children who disrupt them or the whole system will fall apart.
How will we tell when it's done that?
'We're getting to the stage where teachers will not have any punishments at all. The hooligans will end up ruling the classroom.'
I hate to break it to you, but don't they already..?

3 comments:

Letters From A Tory said...

Never underestimate the stroppiness of a teenager who feels that someone has disrespected their human rights.

*roll eyes*

Furor Teutonicus said...

Re your first "Mail" link;

They are now advised to ask the pupil making a nuisance to explain to the class why he is interrupting the lesson.

Aye?`So what happens when wee Tarquin Wayne Nohamhead turns around and says "'Cus youse a fuckin idiot innit"?

Do these arseholes social worker types not REMEMBER what it was like at school, or what? I mean the BEST thing that could EVER happen in OUR school was to be suspended for a week!!! Ordered to "sit outside the Headmasters Office for the rest of the day, and read"?

Having to sit in the library at break. Fucking GREAT! It's bloody COLD out there. SUCKER! I get to sit in the warm and read, whilst all the "well behaved assholes" are freezing their bollox off!

BRILLIANT!!

JuliaM said...

"Never underestimate the stroppiness of a teenager who feels that someone has disrespected their human rights."

Oh, yes. This is going to make teaching even more fun.

And by 'fun', I mean utter hell...

"Do these arseholes social worker types not REMEMBER what it was like at school, or what? "

Either they don't, or they didn't attend the sort of schools they are now interfering it.