Head who gave out 717 detentions in four days invokes fury of parents who say 'it's..

[Omega]

Saw this on our local news last night and also in papers today, the list of "what pupils are punished for" is not far off what we were punished for some 40 odd years ago when I was at school, the only changes are the techno items and hoodies!!!!! IMHO it all started when pupils were allowed to call their teachers by their first name in our days it was Miss, Mrs, Mr or Sir - nothing wrong with that in my book it shows respect.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1374487/Ely-school-gives-717-children-detention-4-days-rules-crackdown.html


However, florist Amanda King, 34, took her children, Ben, 12, and Shannon, 14, out of classes on Wednesday and is now looking for a new school. She said her son had been given a detention for arriving late to a French lesson.

‘I’m absolutely appalled. They are wrecking pupils’ education and turning it into a prison,’ she said. ‘Staff are nit-picking over everything – for behaviour, for what they wear.’



Don't understand what the mothers are complaining about, perhaps the mothers should realise it's called "discipline & respect".


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[Matthew]

Do all schools do that now then Omega with teacher's first names? I didn't know that! :unsure:

I thought it was still Mr, Mrs, Miss, Ms, etc, like I was used to when a school kid! :)

I agree, detentions seem OK reasons to me too! :D

[pmt]

schoolchildren get away with murder now a days,when I was in primary school if the boys misbehaved a slipper to their bottom ,if girls misbehaved they had to stand on a chair with their hands on the heads,(health and safety would have had a field day today as would human rights lol):huh:

I even remember in infants school Mrs Smith pulling down a naughty boy's trousers and smacking him on his bare bum in the middle of class Oh! the good old days:unsure::lol:

[Matthew]

Yeah, we had the slipper, chalk and duster thrown, cane, etc....!

I feel sorry for teachers, who do a fantastic, incredibly difficult job for not enough money or respect etc, they have so little authority over kids today in our accuse/sue culture. :wacko:

[Isis]

Same with ours as well, the cane for boys and slipper for the girls, plus all the usual stuff, detention and lines, god how I hated writing lines and then the teacher would tear them up in front of the class the next day.

[Omega]

When my eldest was at school, he is now 37, he was allowed to call some of the teachers by their first name I think it depends on what school it is and who the teacher is ;)

With me it was a ruler on my knuckles and that was junior school, and also when I was 8 I remember to this day that I turned round to my friends behind me to ask to borrow a rubber and the next thing was I had a note pinned to back of my jumper saying "I must not turn round in class" - hmmm perhaps that's why I am like I am today :lol: Seriously though, never did us any harm and respect came naturally with discipline.

I also got lines from a prefect who I knew and we were friends - I had to write 50 times "I must not undo a prefects Bra" (it was a girls school!) - I can still see me sitting in the lunch hour in the playground against a wall writing these and them standing their laughing :lol: Think I did about 20 and she said it was only a joke :angry: we are still friends though ;)