Thinking of Teaching in the UK? Dont! Demanding, Delusional, and Disrespectful Pupils Await (ep 2.4)

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  @soupeydoupey · 2 months ago · pinned

  According to the UK Government’s DoE: ‘…any attempt by a Head Teacher to use exclusion as a tool to ‘set an example’ is considered unlawful and unacceptable.’ Translation: Kids know they cannot be expelled. <br> <br>Some consequences: <br>*With the State enforcing its irrational regulations, teachers have no individual autonomy &amp; therefore no authority. <br>* Kids are smart &amp; quickly learn that teachers have no authority. <br>* Kids also learn there are no meaningful consequences for bad behaviour. <br>*This might incentivize some kids to pursue bad behaviour as a means of getting attention. <br>*Kids are implicitly taught by society that they have a ‘right’ to education, that they are ‘entitled’ to it; logically implying they should decide what that looks like. <br>*Teachers spend less time teaching &amp; more time battling the wills of the kids. <br>*Poor conditions &amp; support for teachers leads to a lack of motivation &amp; lower level of performance. <br>* The more ambitious &amp; creative teachers, on having their individual autonomy removed by the state, leave teaching. <br>*Because the State provides a one size fits all, there are fewer specialized schools, less innovation in teaching &amp; kids get taught subjects they will never use. <br>*Kids that actually want to learn &amp; who would so under the right conditions; who’ve had a modicum of discipline installed by their parents, have their education &amp; future sacrificed for the sake of ‘the public good.’

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• MO

  @MoAlnaseri · 9 days ago

  I was thinking to go into teaching than run into ur video...now I have doubts. Is there is any way we could connect?

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• KK

  @kk-up5sk · 3 months ago

  Yeah cheers me rufael hella inspirational n shi

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  @Pike59 · 6 months ago

  No need to target ALL English children. <br>That&apos;s called racism. <br>Maybe all Egyptian children are perfect?

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• MI

  @MissWirgy · 7 months ago

  Could you advise what schools should kids go to? I feel state is what you describe but I&apos;m not sure private schools are any better ...

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• MI

  @MissWirgy · 7 months ago (edited)

  Thank you <br>I was considering but now I realise that you are correct :(

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• MI

  @MissWirgy · 7 months ago

  In some cases it might be gentle parenting. I don&apos;t think there is a right and wrong because they also do what their peers do. If it becomes acceptable that you are rude or walk out (no immediate visible consequences) <br>And I think there is a lot of neglect, carelessness and not spending time with kids or indeed this might be how they are treated at home. You got to learn somewhere

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  @jonathanmelia · 8 months ago (edited)

  This is a very selective view of the worst of the &quot;Educating...&quot; series.The girl you decide to single out as &quot;weak&quot; at 22.43, has actually just been told the her brother is about to go prison for a very long time, and she was deeply traumatised. Did you bother to mention the mitigating factors? No, you didn&apos;t. In the most recent series of Educating Yorkshire, things are very different. My mother was a schoolteacher in the early 1960s. She was threatened repeatedly, kids smashed up the furniture and pooped on the desks. It&apos;s always going to vary, depending on area and class. Oh and by the way, you speak sloppy English. You keep pronouncing your &apos;t&apos;s as &apos;d&apos;s.

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  @GreenEyeszzz · 9 months ago

  At least the English students are properly turned out. The clothes American students wear to school Is awful!!! Teacher in Texas…

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• RE

  @religdeb · 9 months ago (edited)

  I grew up in the UK and fortunately I come from a good family that taught me to be respectful and have good manners but I was horrified to see what teachers at my school had to put up with and I&apos;d never teach in the UK in a million years. <br><br>I try to explain to people in the UK whenever I get the chance just how bad it is in schools because a lot of people (older generations mainly) are oblivious.<br><br>I actually think the T.V series understates just how bad it is. I wish I went to that school in Yorkshire. <br><br>My school closer resembled a class C prison. Overcrowded, dangerous, lacking in any order or discipline.<br><br><br>And you&apos;re right, the rest of society has gone in the same direction. You&apos;re wrong about Brits being the same back in the 1940s and 1950s It&apos;s all gone downhill since the 1960s. That culture revolution set the trend for what we have today.<br><br>Also, I would be careful about saying &apos;english people&apos;. These are kids, most English people of course are not this bad (although there are some)<br><br>Also you&apos;re genetic argument is ridiculous. If I made an argument saying black Americans are stupid because slave holders chose stupid black people to enslave because they&apos;d be easier to control I would have the police on my doorstep. But I guess it&apos;s okay to say this about us. It&apos;s a cultural phenomenon, schools were nothing like this pre- 1960s. In fact in England for a long time schools kept corporal punishment while many other countries had banned it. British schools used to be very strict and respectful. That&apos;s where the tradition of calling teachers &apos;sir&apos; and &apos;miss&apos; come from

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• DE

  @dent-z2s · 11 months ago

  How was your experience in UK grammar schools?Was it the same as UK non selective state schools?

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  @StuMitch-s2c · 1 year ago

  Irrespective all the derogatory and borderline racist references to &apos;the english&apos; in this video, white British students remain the highest performers in UK Universities by degree classification, followed by asian students. Black students are the poorest performers by far.<br><br>I&apos;ve been teaching in a mainstream comprehensive school for the past 26 years and most of the students have been delightful. Unfortunately the skillset of many a foreign teacher doesn&apos;t extend beyond &apos;chalk and talk&apos; and they often lack the charisma or language skills needed to engage students. It&apos;s therefore inevitable that they struggle to hold the attention of classes.<br><br>The video out-takes used here are all from difficult school settings deliberately chosen for TV drama. They are not representative of the typical experience of teaching in the UK.

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