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How do you think schools should punish children?

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MaryMaryVeryContrary · 04/06/2024 16:46

A lot of ‘school refusal’ and problems in education is associated with poor behaviour from other pupils on here. Yet whenever a poster’s child is reprimanded they seem outraged and feel the teacher is picking on their DC for no reason. They often think the (perfectly reasonable sounding) punishment is too harsh, or their child should’ve had more warnings.

So I’m interested in how you think schools should actually discipline pupils, taking into account this also means your own DC?

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Pollypickpockets · 04/06/2024 16:53

I live in Scotland where schools have no scope to permanently exclude any child. Violence is absolutely through the roof and why not when nothing ever happens to the perpetrators. Where is the incentive to behave? There is a reason why the once great Scottish education system is rapidly disappearing down the plug hole and this is a big pet of it.

Pollypickpockets · 04/06/2024 16:50

They should start permanently excluding the very worst offenders. If you show that as a school you are willing to take the ultimate sanction then the 80% of ‘badly behaved’ kids who mess around as they know that they can get away with it would think on. And hopefully the children who cannot behave will be taken to a place where resources can be flung at to help them properly, rather than leaving them to sink or swim in the current environment.