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Behaviour deteriorating so badly in primary school

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Sunshineandalltherainbows · 04/10/2021 19:29

Children as young as year 1 swearing constantly. A handful in each class with unmanageable behaviour. Constantly swearing and abusing teachers, other adults and class mates. Physically fighting children and hurting teachers and adults.
Everyday damaging school property.
Is this normal? I feel like it's been normalised at this school but surely this is particularly bad?

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Heathofhares · 08/10/2021 09:58

It's definitely getting worse and SLT seem to be brushing it under the carpet at my school too. A colleague was told she was a 'fuckhead' by a 4 year old in reception last week... and this is at a school in a leafy, commuter village in Surrey.

Rosesareyellow · 08/10/2021 13:49

SLT say teachers need to be more effective with behaviour management. However, consequences are never followed through with from above and ultimately children know they can keep on.

This isn’t ok. Where I work the children have always come to us with very challenging behaviour, but we have strong and supportive leadership around this and a consistent and easy to implement behaviour policy, so you can take it all in your stride. Several staff are trained in positive handling and some things that you have described, such as violence towards staff and spitting would be met with an internal or external exclusion dependent on the circumstances. Without this it would be carnage in my school. It’s all down to how behaviour is dealt with from the top - SLT are failing you.

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