Exactly mate. You can get some decent instant coffees nowadays and both Origlambman and Jordan Peterson know it.
I was a bleeding-heart lefty since I first got interested in politics in sixth form (sorry for mentioning it mods) and in some ways I still am but **** me has working in education the last three years or so been an eye-opener to just how irresponsible some people actually are. Hard to blame kids for the way they behave when you speak or meet their parents and realise these poor kids were at a huge disadvantage the moment they were born. And don’t get me wrong, a lot of it is down to poverty. It isn’t a level playing field. However, some people are just incredibly irresponsible. You can’t change the cards you’re dealt in life but you decide how you play the hand.
The country isn't as divided and screwed as you think, rising costs peaked months ago, the GE is being fought closely over the sensible middle ground by two electable parties not the previous extremes lead by buffoons, wealthier people are contributing to charities and food banks, interest rates are set to fall, employment is high, there are no pandemics, summer is coming etc.
The irony of your assessment is that the lefties watering down and reducing responsibility , including the apologists and compromisers and providers of excuses - is the problem . That’s why kids and their parents don’t behave , there’s always an excuse or some social media article to quote to avoid their responsibility - coupled with the govt acceptance / encouragement of unreasonable litigation because it creates jobs - and wealth for the few again. Now your pupils and young criminals know there is little discipline that can hurt them until they commit more serious crimes .
Trust me, there’s not many cars available at an average price of £3,562 either, not unless you want to be buying 15 year old ****ters from the likes of Harvey Bloom, and then spend the same again annually to keep the ****ter on the road.
Unfortunately, I think you’ve hit the nail on the head. Blaming the ‘system’ alone is such a naive and shallow excuse. Could the system be better? Yeah, definitely. But all the funding in the world won’t change the fact that some people are crap parents and don’t teach their kids basic life skills and common decency. Teachers and support staff in schools are NOT babysitters or surrogate parents. Despite what some people think, staff at secondary schools cannot step in and undo all of the bad caused by **** parenting in just 5 years on top of teaching them the curriculum in preparation for GCSEs. It’s not possible and we shouldn’t be expected to either. That’s not to say there aren’t bad schools or bad teachers because there can be but education staff are a much smaller demographic than parents overall so it’s safer to point the blame at schools and throw us under the bus for badly-behaved children. It’s always ‘failed by the system’ if they get expelled and become a NEET rather than ‘failed by their own parents’.
are the schools blamed often? its so obvious that its the parents, the feral teenagers of the mid 2000s now have school level kids, and what chance have they got with parents like that you all know the ones and then they turn out the same or worse
In my experience, schools do tend to get a lot of the blame. The phrase ‘child’s needs aren’t being met’ is something I’ve heard a lot by parents. It also gets regurgitated in the media. Parents also tend to get external agencies involved in social care wrapped round their fingers who then also contact the school to say ‘this child’s aren’t being met’ even though the child has an EHCP or IEP, extensive support from the safeguarding team and referrals for emotional support, counselling, MIND etc. It’s very obvious that some kids just aren’t being told ‘no’ at home. They then come to school and try to do what they want and when sanctioned for it, the parent will ring up and demand why they’re being punished lmao. There’s also been a huge shift in behaviour policies in certain academies due to pyramid scheme education ‘specialists’ that are booked to deliver lectures to school staff all across the country about ‘innovative’ ways to deal with behaviour. Paul Dix is the main culprit. That prick’s got a lot to answer for.
Today's kids related news story, a 4 year old will only eat Yorkshire puddings nothing else. Apparently the kid has been diagnosed with a thing, an ABCD type thing.
I too work in schools, in some particularly poverty-stricken areas, and have done for a similar period of time. I work with the families and children who are struggling the most, and spend time with parents hearing their entire backstories. In my experience, parents tend to do the best they can. Admittedly, that may not be great, but if you're even half the lefty you say you are you'll take a closer look.
Mum Gemma contacted cognitive behavioural hypnotherapist David Kilmurry after Tallulah was diagnosed with ARFID (avoidant-restrictive food intake disorder). Tallulah had 12 intense weeks of hypnotherapy sessions and she is now trying all kinds of foods. Schoolgirl ate only Yorkshire puddings for dinner for 7 years
