Who holds the responsibility for addressing a child’s bad behaviour—parents, schools, or the children themselves? Opinions are divided.
Some argue schools should delve into understanding the child’s needs, while others say measures like counselling and mentoring are already in place for disadvantaged children but underutilised due to disengaged parents and uninterested pupils.
As we contemplate solutions, the corporal punishment of the past didn’t eradicate misbehaviour in schools and as one reader remembers, after caning was abolished kids didn’t go around assaulting the teachers in the 80s. What’s changed?
Read on to see what readers think about this issue, among others and share your thoughts in the comments.
The kids are NOT alright...
In response to the letters about what can be done in schools such as the one in south Wales where teachers are ‘treated as punch bags’, I believe that excluding children from school shouldn’t happen.
We should be looking into why this is happening. The first question that should be asked is: ‘What do you feel you need to help you?’ Often, these children are frustrated because of social and economic issues that shouldn’t be on their shoulders. We need to help the families and these children to thrive and not feel isolated.
More funding for schools is much needed. When will the government wake up and see this? We need a more level playing field for all children in life.
And definitely no fines where physical violence is involved. It’s not the fault of the parents. Jessica, Brighton
Are parents refusing to acknowledge their child’s poor behaviour?
Tina (MetroTalk, Fri) thinks counselling or courses should be offered to tackle poor behaviour in schools; Ann suggests writing to the parents or fining them.
All schools have counselling and mentoring available but the pupils running riot are not interested and refuse to attend.
The vast majority of their parents or carers defend their little darlings.
We hear the pupils are free spirits or don’t like the education system. But spare a thought for the kids who do want to learn.
One disrespectful badly behaved boy disrupted my stepson’s education for two years. He rampaged through classrooms, destroyed school property and assaulted pupils and staff.
When he was put in isolation he stated he wanted to be excluded as school was ‘mind restricting’. His mother said he simply didn’t like school and she refused to engage with anyone.
Wonder how she would like a class full of characters like her free-spirited son. A Parent Who Parented Her Children, West Yorkshire
Phil (MetroTalk, Mon) says there were no assaults on teachers when they were allowed to use the cane.
If that was the case, then what were teachers whipping kids for? Just for the hell of it?
I grew up in the 1980s with no caning and no assaults on teachers in my school. So explain that away, Phil. Joe, London
Tina (MetroTalk, Fri) suggests some sensible solutions to the crisis in the south Wales school. The school could also install CCTV cameras, recruit some heavily built security staff and continue to get rid of pupils who don’t respect the school rules!
If all of that doesn’t work, the school should be put into special measures by Ofsted and, if necessary, placed under new leadership. Alan, North London
Metro is a lifeline for many
To Carolyn Seville (MetroTalk, Mon) who asks that people limit themselves to one copy of Metro, after seeing a passenger on a bus near Leicester ‘helping herself’ to five copies, and then another doing thesame thing.
Speaking as an NHS worker, Metros are an excellent resource for our patients. They help us orientate confused people, keep them up to date with current affairs, and help occupy them during quiet periods. We regularly take several copies and they are all very well utilised.
Please don’t jump to conclusions about people who may take more than their one assigned copy! Brianna, London
Dear Carolyn, as a multi-Metro grabber myself, you can only criticise the likes of me once you’ve found out who the ‘extra’ copies are actually intended for.
I only ever take one for myself, but please spare a thought for the housebound and the elderly and others for whom a daily newspaper is a lifeline. Nick, Luton
Carolyn, please don’t assume the passenger on the bus was ‘helping herself’ to five copies of Metro. My wife regularly takes three copies – one for us, one for my 98-year-old mother who is unable to get out on her own and one for her neighbour who is also in her 90s. Pete, Malvern
Is the rise in measles due to anti-vax propaganda?
Millions of parents are being urged to book their children in for missed measles, mumps and rubella jabs amid a ‘very real risk’ of measles outbreaks (Metro, Mon).
Good to see the NHS and others taking the surge in cases seriously. This was bound to happen and tragically will get worse thanksto a number of factors.
We still have the hangover from anti-vaxxer Andrew Wakefield, who was struck off the medical register in 2010.
Also, anti-vaxxers recruited huge numbers during Covid.
Last but not least, there is virtually no one around who, as adults before World War II, experienced the dreadful annual epidemics that caused the routine deaths of thousands of children. Robert Boston, Kent
Brexit in retrospect, crossed lines and Traitors
I want to say a big ‘thank you’ to Perry in Barnstaple (MetroTalk, Fri) who says he voted Leave with good intentions but realised Brexit was a mistake and has the integrity and honesty to say so.
I wish more Leave voters had his moral backbone. It would be better for Britain if we were given the chance to rejoin the EU.
Thank you for being decent and honest, Perry. Sally Anne Smith, London
Perry, you did right by voting for Brexit. Don’t get brainwashed into thinking we’d be better off rejoining the EU. We wouldn’t be. We’d be puppets of Brussels again. I voted for Brexit and haven’t changed my mind. Vicki, West Midlands
I’m pleased for Eric who is still driving at 100 (Metro, Mon) but I’m wondering how he got points for parking on zig-zag lines in the 1940s.
Zebra crossings were introduced in 1951, zig-zag lines were introduced in the 1970s and driving licence penalty points were introduced in 1988.
Still, what’s a few years when you’ve got 100 of them! Paul Johnson, Whitstable
The collision between Royal Navy warships HMS Chiddingfold and HMS Bangor in a port in Bahrain (Metro, Mon) is nothing new.
In 1893, HMS Victoria – the flagship of the Mediterranean squadron –
was rammed and sunk by HMS Camperdown in an accident caused by a questionable manoeuvre. The result was the loss of 358 lives. This time round, no lives were lost – just pride. Paul, London
I’m really enjoying The Traitors on BBC1. However, I’d suggest that getting the names of the traitors on the ‘death certificate’ would allow us to see the reactions of the ‘murdered’ contestants as they are about to leave the show. Steve, by email
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