Any teachers out there ? - what actually happens on "Inset days " ?

annie1975_2

2010 wrote: »

I don`t really blame the teachers for the state we are in.
It`s, as usual, the interfering politicians, mainly Labour.

They took away the power from the teachers, police and parents and that`s why the kids are dictating to everyone because they know they can`t be touched.

Yes I agree with you,(Tory's are no better),and i also think when you have disruptive kids in the class and they dont remove them,have to include them.

Sambucus_Nigra

Idiophreak wrote: »

What power have they taken from parents, exactly?

These same parents that had a vote and used it to put the politicians in a position to make decisions?

It's always someone else's fault - teachers, politicians, butchers, bakers, candlestick makers...

Notmyrealname

iloveshoes21 wrote: »

So if we don't use our Inset days for this when do you propose we do it? .

How about in the 13 weeks or 145 working days a year the school is closed? The rest of us poor working saps get less than half that off whilst paying taxes to pay your wages. And despite that, we are then still expected to lose more money so you can have inset days that could be taken during school holidays.

Idiophreak

Notmyrealname wrote: »

Yes it is. There are 13 weeks a year they could fit these training days in.

Nonono, you see...there are FOURTEEN weeks in which the DO fit these training days.

Do the maths...190 teaching days per year, as it's always been = 38 weeks, not 39...that leaves 14 weeks and a day (roughly) for holidays...Out of which the training days are taken.

annie1975_2

Idiophreak wrote: »

What power have they taken from parents, exactly?

Parents still have plenty of power to make their children into decent, functioning human beings...it's just that so few can be bothered to make the effort...

It's got nothing to do with the government interfering, unless it's that they keep on encouraging people to sprog farm for a living...

The powers they have taken away is,your not allowed to give them a clip round the earlug now,without interfering. I know there is sometimes other ways of dealing with it, but a clip never did any harm years ago.

Idiophreak

annie1975 wrote: »

The powers they have taken away is,your not allowed to give them a clip round the earlug now,without interfering. I know there is sometimes other ways of dealing with it, but a clip never did any harm years ago.

You're still allowed to smack your children if you really can't think of any better way to discipline them.

..but you really think the decline in parenting standards is just down to that?

ViolaLass

Notmyrealname wrote: »

How about in the 13 weeks or 145 working days a year the school is closed? The rest of us poor working saps get less than half that off whilst paying taxes to pay your wages. And despite that, we are then still expected to lose more money so you can have inset days that could be taken during school holidays.

See post 43.

And inset days already are taken during the summer holidays - when they were introduced, children had to attend school for 190 days. They still have to attend school for 190 days.

annie1975_2

Idiophreak wrote: »

You're still allowed to smack your children if you really can't think of any better way to discipline them.

..but you really think the decline in parenting standards is just down to that?

I dont have a problem with my child,but I know of children when the mothers have given them a crack and the kid just says,"Im ringing childline".Or "you can get done for that".
There are some parents out there who need lessons in bringing up kids,but discipline needs to be brought back in to schools.

2010

Discipline in the home, on the streets and in the schools, which has all been eroded by lily-livered politicians.

dizzyrascal

2010 wrote: »

Other things learned, like manners, respect for elders and authority, and there was none of this "counselling" when the least little thing happens, you just got on with it.

I got this from my parents as did all my friends. We already understood respect and manners before we went to school. It was quite high on the agenda in our house.
My parents did not expect this to be taught in school. I don't understand why you think it would now.