Bad Behaviour In Kids

I went to an all-girls school in a not particularly bad area of Birmingham, but the behaviour of some of the pupils was very bad, not just very bad, extremely bad, the police were called to the school pretty much every day, there were fights, bullying, drug taking, an instance when a pupil stabbed a dinner lady and more; this wasn’t actually the worst school in the area, my friend attended one where there were two police officers dedicated just to tackling crime in the one school!
Although the behaviour was bad, so was the teaching, okay there was the odd teacher who was passionate about the subject but the majority seemed to hate their job, which made the pupils hate the subject. The teachers would leave the class waiting in the corridor for around half an hour, eventually turn up and then tell us to copy out of textbooks for the majority of the time. There were pathetic rules, such as doors you could go out of but not come in or that only teachers could use, you could only use the toilets for half an hour of lunchtime, which seems okay, but there were around two thousand girls and only around two toilets worked, you had to eat in the rain and snow, the uniform was terrible, in a way I could understand why uniform is necessary if it’s smart etc. ours wasn’t at all and cost so much a jumper was about fifty pounds, this isn’t everything that was wrong with my school and when you look at it you can tell why pupils behave badly, not to the extreme as some of them did, but I think that people seriously need to take a look at what is going on inside schools, and not just from the teachers point of view.
I know that the things in this blog probably sound petty and as pupils we should have put up with them without complaint and be lucky that we even have an education but I think that the media are very quick to criminalise children and never look at the other issues. Usually if you are treated like an adult you will behave like one and I think that this is where a lot of schools go wrong.

References
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/education/article6083162.ece

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/education/article6005346.ece

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