No, I'm not a parent. I just think that there is a difference between being a parent and being a teacher, because as a teacher you have a job to do, you have to be completely professional, you only have to work with the subject through a short period of their lives, and while it's good to have a mutually friendly and respectful relationship, if one of you doesn't like the other it isn't necessarily the end of the world as long as you both can put aside one's differences for the respective tasks at hand. Being a parent is different. It's still a sort of job, but not really one where you have to be professional; it's a task for a very long period of the child's life, in most cases; personal opinions of one another are very important; you will get to know one another on a much more personal level than in a parent/teacher relationship; and it's not so much about completing individual tasks as it is about letting the child grow up and learn about the world.
Obviously there is overlap between the two, but personally I think that being a parent and a teacher are two completely different things, and require different skills. I've never been a parent (or a teacher come to that, though I have worked in a school as a voluntary classroom assistant in drama), so maybe there is something that I don't know. I can't claim to understand being a parent entirely, as I don't think you can until you have experienced it first hand - but just from my observations, I think it's very different to being a teacher. Maybe I"m wrong.
If you're not a parent, your views, to which you are of course entitled, are bound to be somewhat subjective.
No disrespect, but they seem to be as I've read, "mostly about you" which is only natural. You need to be able see the wider picture.
Particularily, the deteriorating standards in classroom behaviour, some of which is down to poor standards of contemporary teaching and some due to teachers having their authority to control classes watered down and some parents who just can't be assed.
I accept, there's always been good and bad teachers.
If you're not a parent, your views, to which you are of course entitled, are bound to be somewhat subjective.
No disrespect, but they seem to be as I've read, "mostly about you" which is only natural. You need to be able see the wider picture.
Particularily, the deteriorating standards in classroom behaviour, some of which is down to poor standards of contemporary teaching and some due to teachers having their authority to control classes watered down and some parents who just can't be assed.
I accept, there's always been good and bad teachers.
No disrespect taken. Everyone's points of view will be from their own personal experience, and for some people that experience will have more relevance to the current educational standard than others (not to say that the others' opinions aren't relevant, of course.) I'm neither a parent nor a teacher, but it hasn't been long since I was in a state school myself, so I think I understand a fair amount about a school's workings at the current time.
Everyone's views are subjective; to have a fully objective viewpoint on the standards of education, you need a thorough understanding of every school there is, which is pretty impossible in my mind - statistics can show what grades the students get, but we both know that grades aren't everything. Every school is different. The viewpoints of everyone on this forum will be subjective and based on their own personal experiences, just as mine are as well.
One thing that made me smile in this episode was that the headteacher was saying that one of the boys was not making eye contact when he was talking to him. Yet the headteacher himself had his foot up on a table and was concentrating on doing up his laces all the time he was talking to the boy.
A case of "do as I say, but not as I do", I should think.
One thing that made me smile in this episode was that the headteacher was saying that one of the boys was not making eye contact when he was talking to him. Yet the headteacher himself had his foot up on a table and was concentrating on doing up his laces all the time he was talking to the boy.
A case of "do as I say, but not as I do", I should think.
The point was clear, that he was avoiding making eye contact, looking down, to the side, but not at the Head.
Ryan is a absolute gem.:). I've just watched it and was surprised by what the headmaster said near the beginning of the programme, that 15 years ago the school was 99% white British and now it's 50% white British. Quite a drop for a relatively short space of time.
Not sure that was fair, both were as bad as each other and should have had the same punishment in my opinion. I wonder what the Head thought when he saw it back and that she had called the lads mum names
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If you're not a parent, your views, to which you are of course entitled, are bound to be somewhat subjective.
No disrespect, but they seem to be as I've read, "mostly about you" which is only natural. You need to be able see the wider picture.
Particularily, the deteriorating standards in classroom behaviour, some of which is down to poor standards of contemporary teaching and some due to teachers having their authority to control classes watered down and some parents who just can't be assed.
I accept, there's always been good and bad teachers.
No disrespect taken. Everyone's points of view will be from their own personal experience, and for some people that experience will have more relevance to the current educational standard than others (not to say that the others' opinions aren't relevant, of course.) I'm neither a parent nor a teacher, but it hasn't been long since I was in a state school myself, so I think I understand a fair amount about a school's workings at the current time.
Everyone's views are subjective; to have a fully objective viewpoint on the standards of education, you need a thorough understanding of every school there is, which is pretty impossible in my mind - statistics can show what grades the students get, but we both know that grades aren't everything. Every school is different. The viewpoints of everyone on this forum will be subjective and based on their own personal experiences, just as mine are as well.
A case of "do as I say, but not as I do", I should think.
The point was clear, that he was avoiding making eye contact, looking down, to the side, but not at the Head.
Ryan
Me too!!! Left 20 yrs ago for South Devon.....give me Dewsbury any day!!!!:D
For the benefit of Radcliffe 95.
What a delightful young lady
Sorry she might be a kid but thats the kind of little miss that grows up to be on jezza.
As long as that:D