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Originally Posted by AnnieK

Moston and Duckinfield and majorly under deprived areas and rough. This doesn't surprise me sadly.

Originally Posted by Ninastar

I have things thrown at me daily but that’s bc I work with the kids who have the behaviour problems. I love what I do, but it’s not for the weak. (Not that I’m strong but you have to be able to take insults and laugh them off.)

I will say this tho, I’ve worked with kids for almost two decades (I wanna throw up that makes me sound so old) and behaviour of children these days is worse than it’s ever been. Kids have no respect and are so incredibly entitled. They know that they can do what they want and have next to no punishment because their parents do not care. They just see school as day care and then when their kids come home they are just handed an iPad or tablet or some kind of technology so they don’t bother their parents. Something 100% needs to change. Parents should be held accountable, but they don’t care enough. Here they will just ship a badly behaved student from school to school which solves nothing

…yeah at Caitlin and your first paragraph, one of the things that I had thrown at me quite a few years ago was baby Jesus from the Nativity display, I’ve dodged many missile attacks but quite a few have landed their target, also…what I will say to add to your experiences, though…and this connects to what Annie has said, I be not worked in schools in hugely deprived areas though so I expect that the experiences of school staff there are entirely different to my own…one of the primary schools in the article references pupils bringing knives into school…Behaviour Officers are something that I’ve worked with and with a huge amount of effectiveness because they don’t just work with the child and address the behaviour issues, they work with the family and with any other social services that might be involved…the Behavioural officer in our school has always been tremendous, probably the outright most respected staff member by the pupils and by families also…(…as well as the school staff…)…sadly though, the funding is always going to be the issue and lack of funding and investment in deprived area schools in particular is really just letting our governments letting those children and families down…again…and again…