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These are not politically correct atm :rolleyes: all children must be "included" in normal classes so they don't feel "different".

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I didn't know that, I know our school was grossly underfunded, we didn't only have remedial classes but we also had a whole remedial "school" where the most disruptive were sent along with the kids that had learning difficulties, obviously they were split into different classes but it certainly worked for us.

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Teachers don't actually want to slap children around or dominate them.We just want to do our job and teach them with as little disruption as possible.

As for your second point well these days the answer is that we have an all inclusive education system as many 'special' schools have closed so the burdens on the special needs staff have become astronomical. We can find ourselves dealing with Downs Syndrome children as well as any others with specialised learning difficulties.We will also have to start including the superbright children in the Special Needs funding in the near future.So there is no talk of removing children away to a special unit especially as one SNA may be in a classroom dealing with as many as 6 special needs students..WE just don't have enough staff to do so.Also funding is tight and many children are turned away from being given help.

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That counts out a certain primary teacher of mine many years ago that was fond of throwing students out of windows :D

As I said, I had no idea about this, I think it's an absolute bloody disgrace, I know certain local schools that have spent upwards of £100,00 0 this year updating IT equipment that was REALLY not needed.

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You'll probably find that the £100,00 0 was allocated to IT by the LEA/Gov and so much as the teachers would like to spend it on more needed resourses, they'd have no way of doing it.

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a lot of 'special' schools have been shut down - what was it "care in the community" - I hope you were on the ground floor, Bifta :)

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We were on the ground floor, but this man was a complete header. As nutty as a fruitcake, we laugh about it now but someone could have got seriously hurt.

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The thing is that in this political climate, we don't have remedial schools. They simply aren't PC. There is a policy of inclusion that means the entire class suffers if it is 'blessed' with disruptive (sorry, 'challenging') pupils. It's a scandal! :afire:

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You have to respect every succesive UK government's complete inability to allocate funds where they're most needed, but that's for another thread.

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Indeed. They are all a bunch of fu*kwhits :rolleyes:

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I feel for the teachers - When the ofstead comes round I stay well clear of the mother in law :)

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Sorry I need to post just once more.

Yes some children are really good but these same children still suffer at the hands of the disruptive children. The schools in areaâ₠¬Ã¢â€žÂ¢s that is poor with large numbers ethnic minorities, younger parents, one parent families. These schools will have more children with behavior problems.



This is a larger part of todays society unfortunately. The children are not spoken to and watch TV most of the time.
These parents are either too young themselves, have more than 5 children, was never given the chance themselves, parents in trouble with the police, Traveller children, refugees, Not all aprents come from good areas my school has children from all those. We also have



Todays children with behavior problems are more disrubtive show no respect and spoil the lessons for others. The children who are normally good do laugh at these children which encourages them to play up more.

I have worked at this school for 4 years and noticed the problem is growing bigger.... In march we are being ofsteded and we have a short list of children we would like suspended to ease the problem.

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It seems a shame that a few children can spoil the education of an entire class !

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Am I right in thinking that grammer schools enabled the seperation of the brightest kids from the rest?

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They used to segment yes. There was Alpha, Beta and gamma in my school. Alpha had the dim witts (me) and gamma had the smart kids.

It took me over 6 months to move to gamma !