I should, possibly explain why I posted this thread.
First is that I had two glasses of wine at lunch so if any of you are lookin' at me in a funny way we can go outside and have a scrap!
The real reason is that people are taking their example of what it was like when they were in school and extrapolating that to how schools are today. Now I can understand why people do that, it is normal to work from your own experience, but it doesn't make it right.
I came into teaching at a mature (cough!) age. I thought that I knew what it would be like to be a teacher. you would walk into a class, you would talk, they would listen....oh how wrong I was! Things have changed beyond recognition.
Comparing what happened when I was in school (in the 60s and 70s) to now isn't realistic. Any more than me sucking in my teeth when someone goes into hospital because my granfather died of TB in a hospital in the 30s.
None of which is to say that things are perfect now, they are not! But neither are they the same as when we were all in school