By Gavin Mackintosh And Sammie Jones-
The Department Of Education has a £10 million project to support 500 schools across England to develop policies like detention systems and new sanctions for pupils to address bad behaviour.
The scheme was pledged at the Conservative Party conference in October by education secretary Damian Hinds pledged to help schools which manage behaviour well share their experience with others. The DfE announced on Saturday that the money will be used to identify lead schools for the network and fund their activities in supporting others, through staff training, the creation of centralised detention systems, and new sanctions and rewards schemes for pupils, with a focus on pupil attendance and punctuality.
The scheme has obvious setbacks because there are more than 500 schools in Britain, and what works for for one school will not necessarily work for other schools. Each school is different with different sets of individuals who have there own unique problems that create unique challenges for schools. Bad behaviour among schools have been a longstanding problem for decades, creating huge burdens for teachers across the country.
Unacceptable behaviour has been the cause of suspensions of pupils across the Uk, but the Department Of Education have on a few occasions attempted to blame schools and make them accountable for expulsions of pupils. It is well known that the expulsion of pupils leads many of those excluded into crime, but this cannot e blamed on schools if the students have behave in a manner that attracts those expulsions. The Eye Of Media.Com has contacted The Department Of Education in the past and asked them to get a grip on the growing problem of bad behaviour and stop leaving it to schools to address this problems.
Many schools in the Uk find poor behaviour of pupils are burdensome problem, especially as many pupils can be violent, very rude , and without control. Some pupils are even violent against teachers, and constitute a nuisance in the classroom that is disruptive to man students. the one thing the Department Of Education has got right in the last few years is raising the standard of education by making end of year primary school Sats exams, G.C.S.E’s and A level exams harder, putting necessary pressure on teachers and parents to motivate pupils to work hard and raised their standards.
FRUSTRATION
The problem is that bad pupil behaviour frustrates this good initiative and creates a major problem for ambitious pupils and hard working teachers to create a conducive working environment for serious pupils. Some schools have leaders that manage to keep the behaviour of their pupils in check, but not all schools have been able to do this successfully. Sometimes the type of pupils in different schools and their family background makes it easier for the pupils to respond to stringent rules by the school authorities, but unfortunately, not all schools enjoy this level of success.
Schools minister Nick Gibb said the DfE wants schools to “instil cultures of good behaviour top to bottom” and described improving pupil behaviour as a “key priority” of the government.
“With £10 million of funding, the support provided to schools will allow teachers to get on with what they do best – teaching – and empower school leaders to implement their behaviour policies correctly and robustly,” Mr. Gibb said. Thae Eye Of Media.Com says that £10m is not being put to maximum use. Maximum use will substantially influence ALL schools to toe a line that kicks unacceptable behaviour right out of the system.
Bennett said the scheme “may very well be one of the most significant strategies for public good we have seen in decades” adding that he is “thrilled” to lead the programme which will help schools become “safer and calmer, allowing more children and staff to flourish.” Not true. The scheme will go a long way into influencing the problem of poor behaviour in schools, but is restricted to 500 schools and may not have the desired effect in all of those schools. There are over 20,000 primary schools in the Uk, and over 4,000 secondary schools. 500 schools is a very small percentage of that number.
SUPPORT
The scheme aims to support 500 schools and is set to launch in September 2020 for an initial period of three years. It is not yet known how many lead schools will make up the network. The initiative is positive, but The Department Of Education needs to realise and accept that until they take a major comprehensive step that applies to ALL schools in the Uk, the issue of very bad uncontrollable behaviour will continue.
They may need to lock heads with capabale Mps in Parliament to address this, though after Parliament’s incompetence in coming up with a unified approach to address Brexit, it is questionable whether even Parliament has the answers to effectively deal with the problem of the serious problem of terrible behaviour in many Uk schools.
P.S Both authors named contributed to this article.