Would you send your child to this school?

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netcurtains

31-12-2016

Originally Posted by Psychosis:
“Parents have no idea what their kids are like in school. I have kids who behave like they're the reincarnation of the devil itself and their parents look at me like I've grown a second head when I even hint at their child being slightly less than perfectly behaved.

If I had a class of 30 kids, I'd be lucky if there were two of them who would pick a grape up off the floor. I imagine most classes there wouldn't be one kid who would do it. Even the nice ones.”

Crikey where do you live?
It's not like that around here and Hull is hardly posh. I often ask random kids to pick stuff up that they've dropped. Usually when I'm walking my dogs in the park opposite my son's senior school. Little sods often drop their half eaten food. I don't think any of them have refused my request to find a bin instead because I don't want my dogs getting ill. When my daughter was young, I was trying to raise money to buy her equipment so she could be treated at home rather than at the hospital, The kids got wind of it in the shop I worked at and they asked me to put a tin on the counter and they all started putting their change in every lunch time. In all my years working there serving them every lunch time, I only had to ban two kids from the shop, one for unacceptable cheek and the other for trying to thieve. Pretty sure that any one of those kids would have picked up anything I asked.

RobinOfLoxley

31-12-2016

Originally Posted by seventhwave:
“I still think it would be pointless/hypocritical for a school that makes a point of not having any religious practice and insists on vegetarian food?”

I agree.

From the reports I've read, the Head is calling out those who criticise her methodology.

She comes across as a bit of a Zealot to me.

LakieLady

31-12-2016

It sounds a bit grim to me. Some of it smacks of control-freakery, like no mirrors in the toilets.

I'm also dubious about the teachers simply "imparting knowledge". How does that encourage critical or creative thinking?

claire2281

31-12-2016

Originally Posted by Heatherbell:
“That's not enforcing a lifestyle choice on them , it's ensuring they eat healthily while in school .”

It's perfectly possible to eat meat and be healthy. Vegetarianism is an ethical issue for most people who choose it and this just smacks of a head teacher imposing her own ethical views on her students which is wrong imo.

Keyser_Soze1

31-12-2016

Originally Posted by netcurtains:
“Crikey where do you live?
It's not like that around here and Hull is hardly posh. I often ask random kids to pick stuff up that they've dropped. Usually when I'm walking my dogs in the park opposite my son's senior school. Little sods often drop their half eaten food. I don't think any of them have refused my request to find a bin instead because I don't want my dogs getting ill. When my daughter was young, I was trying to raise money to buy her equipment so she could be treated at home rather than at the hospital, The kids got wind of it in the shop I worked at and they asked me to put a tin on the counter and they all started putting their change in every lunch time. In all my years working there serving them every lunch time, I only had to ban two kids from the shop, one for unacceptable cheek and the other for trying to thieve. Pretty sure that any one of those kids would have picked up anything I asked.”

Malet Lambert?

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