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[jcaswell.livejournal.com]

Our school is running a pilot scheme for Key Stage 3 exams. Today is the first batch of those exams, so we've got all of year 9 (aged 13/14) in IT rooms running this new software we've got for it. Each of the four of us has been allocated a classroom to make sure there're no technical problems etc. All well and good, we expected teething problems, and were prepeared for that. What we (or at least me) were unprepared for was the abuse we'd be getting from the little angels. I''ve been called fat, told I'm not qualified to do my job, and been told to "fuck off", "piss off" and been called a "fucking idiot". The last three were all by the same student. An incident report will be raised. I am not prepared to put up with that.

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[said-by-me.livejournal.com]

what the...????? Wasn't the teacher in the room with them?

[jcaswell.livejournal.com]

Two teachers, and two teaching assistants at the time. The comments were witnessed, and we're going to raise an incident report. Unfortunately, all that means is he'll spend a day in "seclusion" which is basically a classroom decked out like a living room with TV and internet etc. I'm sure that'll teach him a lesson :\

[cirobi.livejournal.com]

wtf?! *sigh* your description of "seclusion" reminds me of how inmates get more luxuries than many hard working adults! this world is so damn backwards!

[the-s-guy.livejournal.com]

Perhaps the electricity in that room could mysteriously fail for a day...

[twitchfetish.livejournal.com]

someone needs a LART. badly.

IV

[vtladyhawke.livejournal.com]

o_O Your icon is just...wrong on SO many levels

*gives icon love anyhow*

[twitchfetish.livejournal.com]

why, thank you :)

IV

[jcaswell.livejournal.com]

I was thinking more along the lines of a shotgun...

[cirobi.livejournal.com]

wow... it never ceases to amaze me just how obnoxious and rude some students are...

[valkyrwench.livejournal.com]

They learn it from their parents. Unfortunately.

[jcaswell.livejournal.com]

Ditto the lack of discipline. Bleh.

[cirobi.livejournal.com]

true. =( i wish more parents would take responsibility for the behavior of their children.

[jcaswell.livejournal.com]

And woirryingly, they're getting worse. Even a couple of years ago, a kid saying that to a member of staff would have been on an external suspension immediately. We're not allowed to do that any more :\

[cirobi.livejournal.com]

you're not?! that's rediculous! i remember when i was in high school, if you were caught cussing you immediately had after-school detention and if you were an even worse troublemaker you got at least an in-school detention. *sigh* i have a lot of respect for those working in grade schools because of how awful students are.

[fragbert.livejournal.com]

Our society's apparent turn towards avoiding all personal responsibility has given birth to a generation of sociopaths, I swear. Some of these little angels are being TAUGHT that they should have no cares as to the ramifications of their actions.

What was once a clinically-defined mental illness is now seemingly becoming a norm.

[jcaswell.livejournal.com]

Worrying, isn't it? I don't know about elsewhere in the world, but the government here in the UK seems to be far too concerned with the "rights" of the student than those of the staff members, or with teaching the little fuckers to be reasonable human beings.

[cirobi.livejournal.com]

i don't think it's a bad thing to be concerned with the "rights" of students but when it goes as far as to not allow you to discipline the bastards when they ARE out of line... that's a tad rediculous. it's a problem here in the states too. i'm sure you've caught bits of info on all the school shootings we've had over here. society seems to have gone passive-agressive socially. you just can't hurt anyone's feelings and i'm guessing discipline would hurt the poor bastards' feelings. *rolls her eyes*

[fragbert.livejournal.com]

Unfortunately, your government seem to be adopting the kid-gloves technique of handling discipline in schools that we in the states have been using for the past 10 years or so.

I'm not advocating caning or whipping, mind you, but we recently had a case where a local school system outlawed grading with red pens because red ink "caused undue stress." They changed to purple.

My inner teenager was heard to quote, "OMGWTFBBQ" and other such gems.

[jjjiii]

Lock the kid's account and refuse to unlock it until you get a formal apology.

[jcaswell.livejournal.com]

That's an option. And I know I'd get backing from the boss :)

[omicron32.livejournal.com]

Jesus, the kids at my school aren't that bad! I've been told to "get a fucking haircut" once by one of the little fuckers, but that's about it.

I'm the guy who installed the Internet filter though (DansGuardian (http://www.dansguardian.org) - nothing better out there!), so it wouldn't surprise me if they hated me. :D

[omicron32.livejournal.com]

Oh, and I think we're getting that KS3 software at our place too. The other techs are handling that though, I have a hard enough time supporting four primaries as well as the high school... :S

[jcaswell.livejournal.com]

Our web filter sucks. We have to use Websense via Atomwide / LGfL, which means we have no control over it whatsoever :\ Hopefully we're moving to a real ISP soon though, which'll mean we can do things ourselves.

[ravenshrinkery.livejournal.com]

It is known to be a wartime strategy of an occupying nation to coddle the worst students, even amidst terrible failure. Give them such an easy life that they will be absolutely impotent to resist the occupying forces.

Wow, that argument could go damn near anywhere and it's fraggin' scary.

[jcaswell.livejournal.com]

You can say that again.

Incidentally, Best. Username. Ever.