Sad Indictment Of Generations Of Liberal "elite" Thinking?

[ToraToraTora]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/article/38907591/body-cameras-on-trial-in-english-schools
so now Teachers will have police style cameras in the classroom. Who'd be a teacher these days after the limp dums have filled every classroom full of disruptive little cretins?

[hc4361]

Exactly, ummmm!

[anotheoldgit]

ummmm

/// But earlier in the thread you insinuated children were better behaved because they learnt respect. ///

There have always been a few bad apples in the basket.

[hc4361]

My friend teaches English Lit in a comprehensive. She is 5', young and had a private school education and a fantastic teacher. She has the respect of her pupils and copes with trouble makers admirably.

When I was at school some teachers had natural authority and were respected, others didn't and should not have been teachers. One poor chap was treated dreadfully in the classroom and had a nervous breakdown before resigning and going in to banking. It was always the same children that were caned or put in detention - it didn't seem to deter them.

I don't want to go back to the days of corporal punishment in the schools. Any adult that is happy or willing to cane children has something wrong with them.

[ummmm]

And that's what been said over and over, AOG, so sweeping statements about the youth of today is uncalled for.

The days of corporal punishment will never return. They realised it doesn't work because like you said, hc, it was the same kids in trouble.