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Headteachers in England tell of worsening behaviour of pupils – and parents
(www.theguardian.com)
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...Like you realise most secondary schools have the set of responsibilities and expectations on a single page that the child will sign in year 7, right?
It's basically just symbolic and of course you can choose to not sign it and will still go to the school, but to say that they never agreed to it, atleast in my experience is a stretch. Though obviously there is a lot more nuance in this conversation.
The reality is underfunding of both schools, as well as sports/youth clubs, the schools being unable to make effective punishments, and parents not caring what their child gets up to both online and in school likely are the key things to blame.
Plus the effect on the psyche of children growing up in a world which they know is fucked and seeing genuinely so little to improve it probably doesn't help.
That bullshit piece of paper seemingly everyone signs is, in my opinion, the dumbest thing there is. As a child you are effectively forced to sign said document, and as a minor you really can’t enter into binding agreements anyway. Both of which do not improve the ‘legality’ of those documents.
I was fairly well behaved, I’d say, but I never felt any sort of reason to specifically follow that guide, especially as it was forced on us. I expect a lot of other more self-aware children feel similar when still in school.
Overall it’s just a symptom of the proper resources missing.
It's not a legal contract. A business has no obligation to allow you on the premises so a code of conduct is expected, there's an unwritten one for every business you go into. Schools just take time to explain theirs.