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Goosebump: Yeah for sure, I was probably over the top. It's not solely parenting, of course schools and every other aspect of life can be a problem too. It's just I see what parenting is like on the streets, and it doesn't surprise me at all how kids are turning out now. I'm sure there are problems in schools as well that don't help.

Agreed, there are very good and very bad teachers. The profession has now become so stressful that there's a shortage of teachers, and finding the best ones is harder and harder. The biggest problem is that teaching is expected to be not just teaching, but crowd control. That is an entirely different skill, and to limit the choice of teachers to those who can single handedly silence a group of 25 rowdy kids with a word or a glare is cutting down the pool considerably. I really think we need seperate people just to deal with behaviour, I believe they do this in China, or somewhere.

I'm sure there are very good schools, filled with well behaved children with good parents. But it does not seem to be the norm. The sad thing is that those who would actually benefit from being there get drowned out in the noise of those who wish to simply piss about, and it's very hard for them to go against the flow.

I taught in at least 3 high schools, and only one of them had any kind of decent behaviour or a discipline system. In the other two I had no power to do anything. If the kids fucked about and wouldn't listen to me, I had to give them a 5 minute detention. Problem is, it's the whole class, and they won't even listen to me tell them I'm giving them a detention. It's a joke. I can increase this up to longer detentions and such, but these kids couldn't have cared less. I got barely any teaching in. These kids had no idea how to behave, some of them approaching 16 years old and supposedly old enough to start becoming adults. When one of them physically threatened me, that was the last straw.

I'm a good teacher, but sadly I'm small and very lacking in "presence". People don't respect me as an instant authority. I went through teacher training, and they utterly failed to address this issue. They pretended that if children are misbehaving, it is basically your fault, like a window is open and they are being distracted. Close the window, and everyone is fine. Fuck off! The rest of the two years we were doing stupid pointless group discussions like, "Should we have equal opportunities in school?" Erm, yes. What do we talk about for the rest of the hour? What a waste of time. I learnt nothing about dealing with behaviour, or anything else for that matter.

So it doesn't matter how good I am at teaching, if people won't listen to me I can't teach them anything.