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Originally Posted by Maggy
50 years ago in school caning was a common everyday occurrence.Then it was banned.Then we had on the spot detention.Then that was banned and it became a dance around organised detaining after school or during playtime instead.The pupils just stayed away from school with parents connivance on the whole.
Then Mobile phones arrived and parents stupidly decided little johnny had to be safe in school with his mobile permanently in his grasp.So teachers had to insist that mobiles had to be placed in the teachers possession for the duration of a lesson.You can imagine what a kerfuffle that placed in every lesson because students would just hide their mobile about their person..
it's all gotten ridiculous trying to instill common rules and regulations since and some parents seem to entirely misunderstand what education and schools are for. they just regard it as the ways and means for them to be able to work and have free childcare between the ages of 4-16.
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One teacher friend has actually said that school is in effect a babysitting service these days.