Improving Children's Behaviour In School…

Wow we really are on the edge of something quite horrendous, aren’t we?

A deputy head teacher who just happened to state the obvious that’s staring everyone in the face has massively ‘offended’ her school – not that she was actually criticising them…  They have made her work from home until they decide what action to take against her…

So what exactly has she done that’s so offensive?

She revealed how bad behaviour and lack of discipline in schools ‘blinded by Leftist ideology’ has stopped staff from teaching children.    She cited her 10 years’ experience in schools.   She claimed that the education system is broken and lack of discipline and low standards of behaviour are keeping ‘poor children poor’.

So is she right?

Well, recent articles suggest that 70% of teachers have wanted to escape their jobs and cite children’s bad behaviour as the reason.

So, she’s probably right about behaviour…

A further article suggests that 1 in 6 primary age children transfer to senior school with below acceptable levels of literacy and numeracy.  It also suggests that almost 100,000 children achieved worse results in maths and English at the end of their primary years than in comparable tests taken at the age of seven.  This suggests that large numbers of pupils are  left to coast along in their primary schools.

That makes her right about academic standards too…

Are these children unable to learn?  Absolutely not.  They are simply uneducated, not unintelligent.  As with children’s behaviour, nobody seems too bothered about addressing the issues.  Can’t be bothered or simply can’t – either way children’s academic and social education is being neglected.

It’s not to do with lack of money either.  It’s to do with the will of adults.  They need to stop making excuses for their appalling record in managing kids both educationally and behaviourally.  Until adults accept that they are responsible for children’s behaviour then the sorry cycle of disruption and lack of education is going to continue unstopped.

And the fact that someone has the guts to stand up and tell the truth about it all should be applauded.  But what happens in this mixed up and corrupt world?  She gets punished…

Then we wonder why kids are so out of control…  If it wasn’t such a serious issue it would be hilarious…

Managing kids’ behaviour isn’t difficult.  And when you’ve got the behaviour problems sussed then you can really get somewhere with the learning.  Until kids are behaving well, it doesn’t matter what you do, they can’t learn…  And not just the badly behaved kids who lose out on their education.  Their bad behaviour impacts on all the others too…

If you want to know how to manage behaviour well, download Behaviour Bible and you’ll have all the tips and strategies that you need to get your classroom management into the learning zone.

Cheers for now.  Liz Marsden @ Behaviour Bible.

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