Too soft on bad students?

Have schools gone really soft these days? I saw a programme showing parents what their kids get upto at school and one child was not concentrating so they took him to another room and gave him some toast, I mean whaa?

Also they had to ask the parents before they got more strict on a child.. seems a bit soft these days.. I couldn't just walk out a class and get food.
 
David_VI said:
Have schools gone really soft these days? I saw a programme showing parents what their kids get upto at school and one child was not concentrating so they took him to another room and gave him some toast, I mean whaa?

Also they had to ask the parents before they got more strict on a child.. seems a bit soft these days.. I couldn't just walk out a class and get food.
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The toast was laced with Laxatives..... DUN DUN DUN
 
Schools are too soft these days.

The 'bad' students just get shouted at and told not to do it again. Yet they do, they never get punished, it is stupid.

But if they want to mess their life up with crap grades, fine by me. I just ignore them and carry on.
 
Make them pay for the course, then give them a refund if they get a certain grade.
Allow people to face the job market, so when they do come back, they know what they're learning for.
 
Yep, and the parents are at the root of most of the problems. They give the school no support and actively sabotage their own child's learning by fighting the school.

I worked at a pretty poor local school doing some invigilation a few years ago and one kid gave me a nice expletive ridden response when I asked him to stop talking in the exam. He was taken outside for 2 minutes and then came back in to finish the exam.

By 15 minutes before the end of the exam pretty much everyone in the room was talking and the teachers did nothing to stop it. Even when the head came in they only quietened down a bit and were still chatting away with him there.

They were getting a sub 30% pass rate for 5 GCSE's which is unforgivable. You take 9 GCSE's at least don't you? Getting A - C in 5 of those is not tricky. I genuinely believe that if everyone applied themselves 100% to their GCSE's, 80% + would get 5 A - C. There are so many subjects that are not really academic that 5 is not hard to scrape together.
 
fez said:
Yep, and the parents are at the root of most of the problems. They give the school no support and actively sabotage their own child's learning by fighting the school.

I worked at a pretty poor local school doing some invigilation a few years ago and one kid gave me a nice expletive ridden response when I asked him to stop talking in the exam. He was taken outside for 2 minutes and then came back in to finish the exam.

By 15 minutes before the end of the exam pretty much everyone in the room was talking and the teachers did nothing to stop it. Even when the head came in they only quietened down a bit and were still chatting away with him there.

They were getting a sub 30% pass rate for 5 GCSE's which is unforgivable. You take 9 GCSE's at least don't you? Getting A - C in 5 of those is not tricky. I genuinely believe that if everyone applied themselves 100% to their GCSE's, 80% + would get 5 A - C. There are so many subjects that are not really academic that 5 is not hard to scrape together.
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That is just. Wow.

Our school are at least very strict in exams, so nobody bothers talking.

We do I think 13 GCSEs. I think with the option to get 14 with long course RE.

I hope I get most of those.
 
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