To be fed up of the school year being constantly told they are the worst year ever.

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DD is in year 9 and since she started in year 7 they have always been told they are the worst year for bad behaviour. It seems to have ramped up this year and DD said they had an assembly today just to tell them this and talked about more suspensions and exclusions.

Well if they know who it is why do they have to involve the entire year group. Surely being constantly told your all awful hardly inspires them to behave, or want to try.

I am tempted to e-mail the head of year but don’t want to be ‘that parent’.

The assemblies where the whole year is bollocked do actually work.

bit shit for the good ones though.

I remember our year being told this i assumed it was a tactic they used on every year group

I remember one teacher we had at school (late 1960's/early 1970's) who turned this on it's head and told our class that we were the best class in the school, because we were her class and her class were always the best in the school (and woe betide us if we failed to live up to expectations!) Strangely it did on the whole seem to work. She was a force of nature however.

Thanks actually sounds like a great strategy. I had a friend whose mother totally trusted her children and they never let her down

Ds’s year have always been told that they are the best year for ages! There are some really tricky / testing kids in his year too though so I’m not sure what that says about all of the other year groups!!

This was my experience as a teenager.
Full trust is almost a burden. You just can't bear to betray it.