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Absolute nonsense, and I do feel like feeding the troll ,so here goes.
You are obviously an extremely self-righteous and arrogant person (I assume that you would rate yourself as a good teacher). We have a serious problem, perhaps even a crisis,with respect to youth disaffection. We have a multiplicity of youth sub-cultures, ranging from the drug-induced diffident to the pathological gang-violent. These are symptoms of a broader process of social and economic decay that stems from economic marginalisation, family breakdown, the emergence of a distinct and growing underclass of poorly-skilled no-hopers (who breed more profusely then their m/c counterparts) and an overly permissive and even perverse popular culture (cultural elites have a lot to answer for, but, like the cigarette industry in the 1960s, the cynical swines disavow a link between what is broadcast and how people behave...so why do companies advertise?). To top it off, the ideology of child-centric education,and the related concept of child rights, has inverted the natural order of authority in human affairs: the pre- and pubescent tail wagging the adult dog.
Education as a field is also ideologically misguided, perhaps even harmful to public order,since, from a kid´s point of view, the only people who are really held to account are the teachers...by Ofsted commissars and the insidious and privately-politicised world of observations and performance management. From what I saw, these bureaucratic bludgeons were as likely to be employed out of malice as out of a desire for universal competence.
Upsum: cultural rot, fueled by moral anarchy in the media, combined with the displacement of the industrial working class and their replacement by an underclass, these are your real causes,and schools are not equipped to cope with them.
By the way, my classes were generally orderly, and I worked in North London in one of the area´s hardest institutions. I miss the place and the lads, but not the imbecilic moral zealots who have stamped out the individual and his/her talent and replaced it with a series of robotic slogans and fashionable ideological postures.
Enjoy.
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