Well my dc is SMART so THEY need to go to a GOOD school!!! . . .

[WhoseGotMyEyebrows]

Just had my friend on the phone and this is what she said. Does this sort of comment annoy anyone else? I see all children of being in need of good schools equally, not just the smart one's (in their parents opinions ).

Collaborate, I think you are completely right. We need more specialist provision for children who are persistantly distruptive, idealy a unit within mainstream so that children can be re integrated back into normal education.

The education of the poor has been sacificed by those who push "inclusion". Yet many of these MPs who want inclusion send their children to schools where distruption is not a problem. (Ie. Blair sent his children to the Oratory, or numerous MPs who use private schools)

We need to stop listening to the sob stories and start thinking about the child who is average ablity, but lives in a deprived area. For example recently my son had a child in his class who threw a major screaming fit because he couldn't do a test. The rest of the class could not concentrate. My son was telling me that its great at school as X has been suspended for calling a black child n*gger.

I think children should temporarily be placed in a pupil isolation/ referal unit rather than being sent home. X has discovered that every time he uses the word n*gger he gets off school. Maybe the school needs to rethink its stragery.

Really tired-please don't lump together poor and disruptive. Deprived comes in all income brackets and that's where a lot of behaviour probs come from.

All the children in my son's school live in a deprived area. (Its hardly rocket science!) Most of them are well behaved and keen to learn. However there are a couple of rotten apples.

"A small number of kids with problems at home can ruin the education of most in their class. IMO that's the main reason why some schools get poor results (as they are in a socially deprived area) and others better. It's nothing to do with the innate ability of the kids. I don't know how to fix that without declaring myself supreme ruler and making this country a totalitarian dictatorship."

Collaborate is right. The MAJORITY of poor kids are well behaved and keen to learn. It takes just ONE kid to wreck a lesson. I feel that zero tolerance of children who repeatly distrupt the lesson would help social mobility.

Unfortunately schools in deprived areas often have more than their fair share of childen with behavioural problems.

Frankly the most disruptive child in DD1's year has been 'asked to leave' two private schools. I guess it's to let the clever/sensitive/talented children get their precious education and he is more suited to the rough thick kids at the local state school.