Where is it all headed

The UK is for me one of the finest countries in the world.We have democracy,law and order,good rates of employment and the freedom to do as we please most of the time.Compair that to some of the hellholes around the globe and i,ll take this country of ours everytime.Yes i wonder about the future but i dont have any real concerns for my children and grandchildren.What will be will be.

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I remember my dad telling me 'the youth of today... no morals.... no idea of right and wrong...' and that over 40 years ago.  But then he'd say he remembered his dad saying the same thing. People say this every generation.

It was on the news this morning that teachers are getting increasingly frustrated that their attempts to discipline kids are being thwarted by the kids' parents (after receiving a pleading text message from their offspring) contact the school to say that their little darling could never have done anything wrong.......because he / she told them so.

I can well imagine it.......

We used to get a lot of that 10 or so  years ago Ian. But my answer was simple - "get my retaliation in first" 

I'd phone the parents myself and explain the situation and ask them if they'd mind me keeping their little darling back after school for half an hours or so. Only once had a parent refuse - they said they couldn't get there to pick their daughter up that day - but if I'd like to make it the following day "you can keep her for an hour till I finish work"! 

My hairdresser still mentions to me the time he thought I was bluffing about phoning home - until he actually got home that evening. How we laugh about it now!

Great post Valda.  The media are always trying to promote the lowest common denominator as the norm.  I see more good 'kids on the block' than bad.  

Yes it's always happened since I started teaching it's that just now they can phone or text, and the parents get the 'news' quicker. When I first started it was the following day, if you didn't phone home yourself as Mr M says.

yes, two good rules, get in first and always, always, always, carry through on your threats.

Boys could be allowed to wear skirts at a north London private school if a plan for gender neutral uniforms comes in.

Highgate School is considering mix-and-match outfits for pupils after head teachers said that growing numbers of children were questioning their gender.

The school, which charges up to £6,790 a term, has also been encouraged to allow unisex toilets and open all sports to all pupils.

Girls at the school can wear grey trousers, dark blue jackets and ties.

But boys are not currently allowed to wear grey pleated skirts, although they would be under the new proposed dress code

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-39921309

Ok discuss

(I don't really care as long as they behave themselves and learn)