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Brutal English public schools

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Postby Hnuff » April 17th, 2006, 4:57 pm

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Postby Pindar » April 18th, 2006, 2:03 pm

Apparently, in schools, teachers are no longer able to intervene in fights. This is in case of pupils complaining about Battery and so on.

I think this is madness. I also thank my lucky stars for the education that I have recieved.

I got the top marks in the year, and I was expected to but I learnt more through things that i was exposed to that were not part of the curriculum. Look at how Lewis Changed under Kirk. He was virtually a different boy when he went up to Oxford.

So in short, I think that specialist schools are a good idea, in order that people recieve the education that is most useful to them, instead of jumping through hoops for reasons that they dont know.
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Postby rusmeister » April 18th, 2006, 5:14 pm

Teachers are not allowed to touch children - for any reason. This, intended to protect children from abusive teachers, also prevents an 8-year-old from hugging their teacher (When did we begin to see THAT in a perverted light?) and allows teenagers who know this to brazenly disrupt classes and act out, knowing that they cannot be touched, and nothing of substance will happen to them.

It is indeed madness.

This world is firmly in Satan's grasp, and will encourage one extreme to follow another - I imagine he loves the pendulum effect.

I mourn for all the good in my country that is already lost, as the children mourned the passing of Narnia. The saddest thing is that so many people do not know that anything has been lost. I might not have known, if I hadn't become a world traveller and seen other places where those things were not (yet) lost.
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Re: re: Brutal English public schools

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Re: re: Brutal English public schools

Postby Pindar » April 18th, 2006, 9:42 pm

[quote="rusmeister"]Teachers are not allowed to touch children - for any reason. This, intended to protect children from abusive teachers, also prevents an 8-year-old from hugging their teacher (When did we begin to see THAT in a perverted light?) and allows teenagers who know this to brazenly disrupt classes and act out, knowing that they cannot be touched, and nothing of substance will happen to them.

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They are not allowed to give aspirin either, but if a girl is pregnant she can get an abortion without her mothers consent or knowledge. Even if she is underage.

Whatever ones views on abortion are, that is abhorrent.

My first priority if i am lucky enough to have children, will be that they get a good education.
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Postby rusmeister » April 20th, 2006, 2:05 am

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Postby rusmeister » April 21st, 2006, 2:54 am

Actually, I find it a little surprising to hear that PUPILS can be suspended somewhere for their expression of faith. That's a first.
Absolutely correct about police. There was (and presumably still is) a police division of several officers at my school. I remember a situation where a clowning teen was disrupting a lesson and refused to leave the class. The teacher (a man) placed a hand on the boy's shoulder (c'mon buddy let's move it) and the TEACHER was immediately suspended for a week (the boy was returned to the class). The school police took his deposition (!) at home over the phone, and he was exonerated the same day as it turned out, but still had to sit at home for a week. And that kind of incident is very common.
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Postby rusmeister » April 22nd, 2006, 3:58 am

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Postby rusmeister » April 23rd, 2006, 3:56 am

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