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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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[jcaswell.livejournal.com]

What the...? That's CRAZY! And they expect these kids to run the world of tomorrow. They don't stand a fucking chance.

Unfortunately, I think you're right. Our government seems to be taking lessons from yours. Unfortunately, they're not taking the right ones. We didn't have corporal punishment even when I was at school, but we were still taught about discipline, and how not to talk to adults. I'd never have had the guts to swear at a member of staff like that - and I'd have expected a bollocking for it if I had. Christ, I'm 35 and I still won't swear in front of my mother!

I only ever had one detention at school (didn't do my history homework), and I still remember the conversation with a friend who lived in the same street as me. We were both terrified of telling our mothers that we had detention. When I told mine though, she just looked at me and said "well, it serves you right". But that was enough - I never skipped my homework again.

[cirobi.livejournal.com]

i had a chance to go to Russia back in my senior year of high school. i remember being extremely jealous of the school system because it seemed to allow those who weren't academically inclined to still learn to be functional adults but let those who were academically inclined soar in terms of how much they learned. plus, the discipline in the classroom was phenominal. not to an abusive point but just enough so there was a definitive boundary between student and teacher without it being domineering.

i agree though, as a kid i was scared to death of getting in trouble - being sent to the principle and such - because i knew there'd be issues when my parents found out. i hate how parents refuse to take responsibility for their children these days. i'm only 23 and my parents didn't do much disciplining of my brother and i, but we were taught right vs wrong. when i become a parent i'm definitely going to try to raise my kids as my parents raised us... free thinkers with knowledge of right vs wrong. i'm all about giving kids various freedoms as they grow older but only if they deserve it. -_-

[jcaswell.livejournal.com]

enough so there was a definitive boundary between student and teacher without it being domineering.

That's what we had - and it worked. We respected the staff, and we respected the equipment. We have to replace the mouse at least once a year on every one of our 400 machines because the kids rip the buttons off of them. We'd never have got away with that!

i become a parent i'm definitely going to try to raise my kids as my parents raised us... free thinkers with knowledge of right vs wrong.

Ditto. If only more people felt that way :\

I dunno, maybe things will improve as people realise what they're doing. I hate to think of them getting any worse.

[cirobi.livejournal.com]

maybe it'll work like stock markets seem to. there needs to be a crash before the majority of the world, which consist of idiots, realizes there's a problem. i sure hope that isn't the case though. =/

[jcaswell.livejournal.com]

Me too. Although, how much worse could it get?

[cirobi.livejournal.com]

i don't know, but i'm not even sure i want to try and imagine it getting worse.

[jcaswell.livejournal.com]

Nor me. I wonder if they'll let us emigrate to Mars yet...

[cirobi.livejournal.com]

haha, that'd be awesome. when i was a kid i wanted to be the first orchestra conductor on the moon. maybe now i could just be the first client computing manager on the moon. *ponders*