Do you think that schools are okay?

'I'm projecting a false equivalence". Did you read my post?

I wrote that it's the students in my school - who say the school feels like a prison. I didn't say it. Shouldn't their opinions be listened to?

They say it a lot. That the school feels like a prison.

The reasons are:

they can't wear clothes to suit the hot weather, while the teachers can.
They can't use the bathroom when they want to.
They can't speak when they want to.
They get shouted at by some teachers.
They are constantly controlled

I was replying to the poster who wrote '

'children can't leave class to go to the bathroom. It's a safeguarding issue'.

She seems to think that we are talking about younger children.

As teenagers are definitely allowed to leave the class to go to the bathroom

Can you be a teaching union officer while on supply?

I have never heard the teenagers in my school ever being referred to as children.

I did a quick google search on it. This is what came up.

Teenagers are generally not considered traditional children, but rather adolescents—an intermediate group between childhood and adulthood spanning ages 13 to 19.

I'm talking about teenagers. Teenagers can leave the class to go to the loo.

But they only seem to be allowed to do it when the teacher decides. Which is on a case by case basis.

I have heard numerous times from students about their period starting and they haven't been allowed to use the bathroom

I honesty think a lot of things that go on in schools are bordering on child abuse. And its been that way for a while.

I remember when I was in school, my geography teacher would make us all stand up. He would then ask us all questions from recent topics that we had covered. He wouldn't let us sit down until we got an answer right.

This meant that people that struggled with the subject were constantly embarassed in front of everyone else.

It meant that often the same two students were left standing for a lot of the classes.

'I'm projecting a false equivalence". Did you read my post?

I wrote that it's the students in my school - who say the school feels like a prison. I didn't say it. Shouldn't their opinions be listened to?

They say it a lot. That the school feels like a prison.

The reasons are:

they can't wear clothes to suit the hot weather, while the teachers can.
They can't use the bathroom when they want to.
They can't speak when they want to.
They get shouted at by some teachers.
They are constantly controlled

One example: A girl told me that she was not allowed to go to the bathroom to change her period pad.

I honesty think a lot of things that go on in schools are bordering on child abuse. And its been that way for a while.

I remember when I was in school, my geography teacher would make us all stand up. He would then ask us all questions from recent topics that we had covered. He wouldn't let us sit down until we got an answer right.

This meant that people that struggled with the subject were constantly embarassed in front of everyone else.

It meant that often the same two students were left standing for a lot of the classes.

Are you sure? A lot of GCSES and A levels have non examined assessments of some kind.

I think it’s a perfect storm of no time off from friendship issues due to social media and no time of from learning due to high expectations and technology meaning the curriculum/homework is always present.

Aspirant exams are one thing but it means that only a few reach the top grades. The reading age of the language and literature GCSEs for instance is 17 and most schools start drilling in year 9.

I’m not saying it’s wrong to drive up standards but, is it working with so much poor mental and physical health? To me, we’ve returned to the workhouse mentality with the working classes punished.

When I was in school, I remember absolutely hating school. I like learning. What I hated was the constant feeling of being in a prison, having no freedom. Having to sit for 7 hours a day and not speak. Having no say at all in most things. Constantly being controlled. I remember every morning, feeling dread when I woke up to go in.

I now actually work in a school in an admin position. Ive worked in lots of different companies. Now im in a school. I hear the teenagers say the same things all the time. They hate it, they feel like they are in prison, that it is awful, that they feel depressed every day, that all their young life is wasted. I also have to say, I definitely see school teachers abuse their power over the students. Not in a way that you could say is definitely abuse, but just in a way where you can see that they are really loving having power and control over the teenagers.

Do you think that schools are okay the way that they are? Teenagers don't have a lot of say in things or a lot of human rights, so it's adults that need to have the conversation about it.

'I'm projecting a false equivalence". Did you read my post?

I wrote that it's the students in my school - who say the school feels like a prison. I didn't say it. Shouldn't their opinions be listened to?

They say it a lot. That the school feels like a prison.

The reasons are:

they can't wear clothes to suit the hot weather, while the teachers can.
They can't use the bathroom when they want to.
They can't speak when they want to.
They get shouted at by some teachers.
They are constantly controlled