Thread: Gove to tackle schools' 'no touch' rules
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Old 04-10-2010, 17:27   #11
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Re: Gove to tackle schools' 'no touch' rules
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Originally Posted by RizzyKing View Post
I get sick to death of hearing about the rights of the unruly to be curtailed what about the rights of the vast majority to be able to go to school and learn as they want. We really do pander to all the wrong sections in this country and then wonder why we have so many social problems. Back in my day you knew if you did something to another kid you would suffer for it these days you can do it and then play the victim and the system protects you what a joke.

I knew a school only a few years ago that had the foolowing rules on bullying that if you got hit once you were meant to count to ten, if you got hit again you had to tell the person that they had hurt you and only on the third strike were you allowed to go to a teacher and complain. That school became a complete mess with bullies working out they could hit someone twice before there was any risk and all for the sake of statistics and not officially being seen to have a bullying problem.
No rights have been curtailed and none have been infringed. The ability to restrain pupils who are a danger to themselves or others have never been removed. The choice to apply first aid to an injured child or a consoling arm on the shoulder of child who is up set has always been there. There has never been any law to prevent this.

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Originally Posted by Chris View Post
Hold the front page ... Flyboy and Michael Gove are in agreement
Hardly. He is whipping up Daily Heil style rhetoric as a smoke screen to avoid being carpeted again. He probably thinks that if bangs on about this popularised mythical crap, he won't have to mention school closures, building programme cancellations and budget cuts. As is mentioned, it is a myth, so what is he proposing to do?
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