Public Schools

[Jondot]

James, that's just nasty. I think i would have done the same in that situation.

Yes, talking to teachers about bullying doesn't work. I've tried it.

I don't think bullying is just a public school thing. I haven't experienced private school, but i go to a grammar school (meaning you have to pass the 11+ test thing. You can decide wether to take it or not in year 6. Some do, some don't. Sadly, just because people are slightly better in tests, doesn't mean they have common sence. Our class has agrovated many a teacher over the years. I have myself, been bullied verbally, which doesn't exactly bother me, frankly. I don't think anyone in our school has been bullied physically. Like i said, i don't know about private school, but i'm guessing that just because your parents pay, it doesn't mean everyone skips around holding flowers and petting small but perfectly formed white rabbits.

Like G.T said, teachers control nothing. Sad, but true. Only these kinda teachers seem to do well:

1) Ones that make jokes and have fun lessons, but can still use crowd control
2) Teachers that are strict, but don't even need to be to get silence.

Here's the way it works. If the teacher looks scary, or makes a class laugh, or both, they can keep a class queit under normal situations.

 

[ExigeEvan]

Ah yes. Didn't notice the location. I figured it was a typo and you meant to say private.

Fair enough.

Anyway, that's discrimination by the government. What if parents want their children to learn how to interact with the opposite sex. I'd say that may be a duty of the public education system (if you must rely on public funding) and so should be part of the curriculum.

^^ This is the problem with public education. You can't do it right for everyone.

There are plenty of ways parents could go about encouraging interacton themselves. And I'm sure most pupils would be keen anyway.

However you could also argue that by seperating boys and girls you allow a better education. Every year we hear how the gap between boys and girls at GCSE is increasing.

Many people will put this down to boys trying to show-off in lessons. To be honest I can agree with this to a point. Very often you find that in a mainly male class (P.E where boys and girls are seperated, and D.T Resistant Materials which is mainly male) you find less showing off. You may find the odd joke and while this does disrupt it doesn't as much as an arguing or persistant pupil. But this can also be put down to the fact boys probably enjoy these subjects more.

Parents of girls will argue that by removing boys from their childs education they have less desruption in lessons. And parents of boys will argue that removing girls from their sons education leads to less distractions.

 

[Danoff]

Fair enough.

There are plenty of ways parents could go about encouraging interacton themselves. And I'm sure most pupils would be keen anyway.

However you could also argue that by seperating boys and girls you allow a better education. Every year we hear how the gap between boys and girls at GCSE is increasing.

Many people will put this down to boys trying to show-off in lessons. To be honest I can agree with this to a point. Very often you find that in a mainly male class (P.E where boys and girls are seperated, and D.T Resistant Materials which is mainly male) you find less showing off. You may find the odd joke and while this does disrupt it doesn't as much as an arguing or persistant pupil. But this can also be put down to the fact boys probably enjoy these subjects more.

Parents of girls will argue that by removing boys from their childs education they have less desruption in lessons. And parents of boys will argue that removing girls from their sons education leads to less distractions.

Or they could argue the other way around. The bottom line is that the government (local or otherwise) is making an instructional decision for everyone else and using their money to do it. As Swift pointed it, it isn't possible for the government to find a one-size-fits-all solution and so what is taught in public schools will be a constant battle - a battle in which some people's money is used to support things that they focus their entire lives fighting against... a rather cruel punishment.

 

[G.T]

Here's the way it works. If the teacher looks scary, or makes a class laugh, or both, they can keep a class queit under normal situations.

Yep, that was anothing thing I forgot to mention. That is absolutely true.

When I had textiles, everyone hated it, and if the teacher wasn't as strict/scary as she was the lesson would have been a disaster with no one paying attention, even more so because no one liked it (to be honest I hated her too, but you can't get everything!)

 

[F1GTR]

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When I had textiles, everyone hated it, and if the teacher wasn't as strict/scary as she was the lesson would have been a disaster with no one paying attention, even more so because no one liked it (to be honest I hated her too, but you can't get everything!)

My textiles lessons are always like that . My friends and I just talk for an hour and we still pass with high grades. Textiles is basically DT with fabrics so we know what to do already,