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To all teachers, I admire your dedication to your students and learning. My father was a teacher, and then he taught student teachers at our local university. He was dedicated to assisting children to learn and equally dedicated to ensuring children received the best learning opportunieis. He was a hard taskmaster at university and at home with the homework🙂.
 
My step son is in yr 8....he copped a detention today for an hour tomorrow, but they sent home a note fpr me or his mum to sign if we agree with the detention, which they now call a "reflection session"
If we sign he gets detention, if we dont he leaves as usual.
We werent there when the reason for the detention occurred but the school system is now leaving it for us to judge as to wether hes "punished" or not (one hour big whoop)
Is this standard these days?
Are schools scared to 'punish' kids?
Imo this promotes the attitude of aome yung people these days not wanting to accept responsibilty for anything

Remembrance ceremony this morning, all kids sitting on the ground outside, my stepson had his arms on his knees and his head on his arms ie not paying attention 100%....head master said disrespect, I agree and talked to him about it this arvo, apparently a few others copped the same, fair enough imo.
I will sign the note.

Maybe its good schools are sending this back home, but i can imagine some parents wouldnt give two craps
 
It's called "contemplation" at my school. Parents don't like there being consequences for their perfect little darlings 🙄 It's bloody exhausting. Happy to chat with you, Ink. But from a teacher pov, please sign the note 😉
 
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innsaneink said:
My step son is in yr 8....he copped a detention today for an hour tomorrow, but they sent home a note fpr me or his mum to sign if we agree with the detention, which they now call a "reflection session"
If we sign he gets detention, if we dont he leaves as usual.
We werent there when the reason for the detention occurred but the school system is now leaving it for us to judge as to wether hes "punished" or not (one hour big whoop)
Is this standard these days?
Are schools scared to 'punish' kids?
Imo this promotes the attitude of aome yung people these days not wanting to accept responsibilty for anything

Remembrance ceremony this morning, all kids sitting on the ground outside, my stepson had his arms on his knees and his head on his arms ie not paying attention 100%....head master said disrespect, I agree and talked to him about it this arvo, apparently a few others copped the same, fair enough imo.
I will sign the note.

Maybe its good schools are sending this back home, but i can imagine some parents wouldnt give two craps
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You and your partner are bringing your step son up the right way to give him every chance to be a member of society that everyone will value.I hope the other kids who also received the same sentence get the identical result from their parents.
 
jadtiger said:
You and your partner are bringing your step son up the right way to give him every chance to be a member of society that everyone will value.I hope the other kids who also received the same sentence get the identical result from their parents.
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Thanks Jad
 
innsaneink said:
My step son is in yr 8....he copped a detention today for an hour tomorrow, but they sent home a note fpr me or his mum to sign if we agree with the detention, which they now call a "reflection session"
If we sign he gets detention, if we dont he leaves as usual.
We werent there when the reason for the detention occurred but the school system is now leaving it for us to judge as to wether hes "punished" or not (one hour big whoop)
Is this standard these days?
Are schools scared to 'punish' kids?
Imo this promotes the attitude of aome yung people these days not wanting to accept responsibilty for anything

Remembrance ceremony this morning, all kids sitting on the ground outside, my stepson had his arms on his knees and his head on his arms ie not paying attention 100%....head master said disrespect, I agree and talked to him about it this arvo, apparently a few others copped the same, fair enough imo.
I will sign the note.

Maybe its good schools are sending this back home, but i can imagine some parents wouldnt give two craps
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sign it then, depending on the value of his indiscretion, dish out your own justice. also. Parents should have and should act out more discipline then the schooling system ,same as ? grumpy old man raving with a walking stickup the street , setting values going forward .
Long answer short ,he does the time , for the other times it went ? unchecked
 
Imagine having to lecture in front of 200 intelligent students during a class on a daily basis. I discussed this today with my father who taught teachers at our local university after transferring from the public school's system. It is an underappreciated and undervalued profession. As a student, you don't appreciate how much preparation is required for a lecture. My father could remember all his excellent, very good and good students.
 
I would give my kids teachers a raise if I could. The amount of out of school hours activities those teachers attend is very impressive. I honestly don’t know how they do it day in day out.
 
I've been a teacher for the last 10 years and I've just decided to step away from it.

I've gotten to the point where the stress from the job has impacted my health.

Behaviour has become more challenging to manage, parents are overbearing, entitled and will bail their kids out of any trouble they get in, the admin and busy work is getting more and more each year and class sizes are getting bigger each year too.

I've enjoyed it, but at the end of the day no job is worth sacrificing your health for.

I've got no idea what I'll do next, but I feel quite relieved to be leaving the profession.
 
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