School pupils stage mass walkout after teachers reprimand girls... for linking arms

[wordy]

Yeh that will make things better. Enjoy suspending the entire school.

You make an unfair rule and theres no stopping teenagers.

It will. It'll teach these children a valuable lesson that they can't just do what the hell they want and that their actions will have concequence.

It is not up to the children to ignore rules they don't like, they are in school and schools have rules. They don't like it? Unlucky.

When they realized they had the ability to think for themselves. Not only is the education system useless at educating people, but it's also designed to take this ability away from people so they'll be good little sheep. And it's failed even at that.

Gideon: Looks like it's a bad batch David
Cameron: Oh well, we've taken away their one chance at a decent education, they'll all end up working in mines... oh wait, make that call centres Nobody's going to listen to a call centre worker now are they?

Yeah, like that isn't going to come back bite you very hard in the arse.

I'm sure the failings of the education system was at the forefront of the pupils mind when they were going from classroom to classroom to incite this 'mass walkout'

Since they realised they have rights just like everybody else.

They are at school, they are there to do as they are told. It is not their place to make up rules and ignore ones they don't agree with.

The right to behave themselves and do as they are told.

Did it actually occur to anyone that no-one told them 'no touching' in the first place.

Kids misbehaving that is all.

Thanks you.

 

[starfighter]

It wasn't the correct procedure but as they are kids you can't really complain about that. the rule is overly harsh. they wouldn't have walked out if it hadn't been.

 

[Fr0dders]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...-walkout-teachers-reprimand-linking-arms.html


Yes yes it's daily mail.

But this is the school I used to go to (and left in June 2009) It was a brilliant school amazing ratings and had a brilliant headteacher which retired in 2007 (when I was in year 9) after that we got this new bloke in John O'Hara, and he is absolutely useless in my opinion.

So yeah, do you think this is overkill or not?

When I was there, if you were caught kissing a girl you got told off pretty bad. But for linking arms? I think it's ridiculous. He says it was a misunderstanding but knowing him he's just covering his own arse.

He (the headteacher) even made an account on FaceBook called Ethel Crystal, with no picture of who it was, and went around adding all St Benedict's students of all age groups claiming to be a student at St Benedict's itself? He then went on to deny he had anything to do with it.

I hope he gets fired tbh.

So what do you think, justified or not?

Read the article

I doubt this ever even happend.

Just a case of chinese whipsers getting out of hand.

 

[Gaygle]

When reading the quotes from students/parents in that Daily Fail article, i lost count of the number of times something like "i heard that..." and "from what i understand..." was mentioned.

I was also somewhat surprised to see a sensible comment that i agreed with on the Daily Fail comment area that summed it up for me (particularly the last bit):

They are there to be educated and disciplined and one has to EARN respectr, it is not a right. This fuss began as a rumour, that's the level of maturity the staff are dealing with. This attitude is the reason education in Britain is going down the tubes because students are very aware of their rights but somewhat hazy on their responsibilities.

That last bit is backed up by the fact the FB group was called "St Benedicts [sic] student protest 2011" and there were comments such as "From now on, every year on January the 27th, we have to have a riot."

 

[wordy]

It wasn't the correct procedure but as they are kids you can't really complain about that. the rule is overly harsh. they wouldn't have walked out if it hadn't been.

It they want to be treated like adults then they should act like adults and not having a strop and storming out when rules they don't like are enforced.

 

[Gaygle]

It they want to be treated like adults then they should act like adults and not having a strop and storming out when rules they don't like are enforced.

Eh? As much as i don't agree with the whole "kids in control" thing - adults walk out all the time when they don't agree with something (the Fire brigade, London Underground staff, the entire population of Egypt)

 

[Jingo...]

adults walk out all the time when they don't agree with something (the Fire brigade, London Underground staff, the entire population of Egypt)

 

[Frenzy]

I really dont believe anything the daily mail write anymore after reading that thread the other day.

 

[Stretch]

Since when did school pupils get to decide if they don't like being told off then they'd all just walk out?

Since they realised they can.

 

[ThomasTheTankEngine]

Since they realised they can.

Well if the people running the school aren't completely useless, they should also realise there are consequences to their actions.... when they're hit with detentions for several weeks.

 

[arc@css]

The decision was made to keep in line, fear etc. Ridiculous but they will do anything to try and close people down because they themselves are more in fear for sometime of losing power. It's just filtering down the line.

 

[mame]

Religious school

 

[Tefal]

When they realized they had the ability to think for themselves. Not only is the education system useless at educating people, but it's also designed to take this ability away from people so they'll be good little sheep. And it's failed even at that.

Gideon: Looks like it's a bad batch David
Cameron: Oh well, we've taken away their one chance at a decent education, they'll all end up working in mines... oh wait, make that call centres Nobody's going to listen to a call centre worker now are they?

Yeah, like that isn't going to come back bite you very hard in the arse.

So why are you insistent upon staying in the education system if it's useless at educating and designed to turn you into a sheep?

The decision was made to keep in line, fear etc. Ridiculous but they will do anything to try and close people down because they themselves are more in fear for sometime of losing power. It's just filtering down the line.

So every teacher is the uk is in on this massive conspiracy?

 

[Cosimo]

So every teacher is the uk is in on this massive conspiracy?

Are they, what do you think?

 

[mrk]

I just want to add that the new head has tranny eyebrows LOL.

 

[Lysander]

A teenage girl added: 'We were standing up for our rights. What's wrong with that?

Rights? What rights? This is the kind of rubbish that the internet fills childrens' minds with - that they have 'rights' to pick and choose their disciplines at school.

'They don't like us even holding hands - kissing is out of the question. It's a bit full-on at times really.'

We wouldn't even dream of being seen linking arms with a girl at school, let alone kissing. You'd be lucky if you didn't get suspended for that. The fact that the children were even allowed to get through the door during their walkout shows that the discipline was lax anyway. The school shouldn't have even let the thought enter their heads.

 

[suj999]

it all started to go downhill when you had to pay kids to go to school!

 

[hurfdurf]

I think it's brilliant that kids today are standing up for themselves and want to be treated like adults

 

[agnes]

Since when did school pupils get to decide if they don't like being told off then they'd all just walk out?

Since they replaced the wood rulers with plastic ones...

From that day, knuckles were free and kids lost all respect

ags

 

[Lysander]

I think it's brilliant that kids today are standing up for themselves and want to be treated like adults

Kids have always wanted to be treated like adults. The only difference is that now we have a more clouded view of rights and discipline because people are too scared to punish their children when they misbehave.