Re: Education law....school detention


"The Todal" <deadmailbox@xxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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A valid opinion which many sensible people share. I even remember my
English
teacher at school (when I was about 12) saying that he hoped we didn't
spend
too much of our evening doing homework, that he didn't really approve of
it
and that children should be relaxing and playing during their time out of
school. And he used to claim that he had never in his professional life
given a detention, but I don't know whether he was right about that.
Everyone enjoyed his lessons and worked very hard for him, and he got
excellent results.

A valid opinion, as is almost all opinion, but not necessarily that of all,
or even a majority, and even so not a valid excuse for underming the
authority and discipline of the school or the teacher. A strategy which may
wel have far reaching and detrimental impact on the child. I also would not
diagree with the concept of children having reasonable time for play and
relaxation. Home work does have benefits for the childrens education, but I
would agree that too much would be detrimental. Some good teachers find
their personality provides adequate discipline without any overt punishment,
but I regret that if we restricted the teaching profession to those with
this ability we would have a serious teacher shortage. Discipline is needed
for many reasons, and needs to backed with sanctions of some kind, your
teacher could have issued a detention but chose not to, the threat was
always there.


Nowadays, presumably such opinions are regarded as subversive or perverted
by a majority of pushy parents.

I certainly don't see it as either subversive or perverted, if it works for
him and he gets the job done then fine, we must however realise others have
differing opinions and methods. Personally I do not worry too much about the
pushy parents it is the ones who either care little about how the school is
run or who wish to disrupt the procedure of the school for their own ends.
At the end of the day if the parent does not respect the school and the
teacher then neither will the child and the main person to suffer from this
will be the child.

What about "I have no objection to her having homework" - why does that
phrase not register with you? Why do so many people want to tell a parent
to be quiet and not rock the boat and to accept that the authorities know
best? Are those really the values we want to instil in the next
generation?
Maybe. After all, Bush and Blair have several more wars to fight and need
plenty of cannon fodder.

The parent had no objection to home work being set although the parent
equally did not want the home work to be an obligation. Whilst it was not
clearly said one has the suspicion that either the parent had not bothered
to find out if there had been home work set, or had actively encouraged the
child to fail to do their home work. As is often the case with these posts
the parent has clearly omitted part of the story.

Peter


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