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The lost art of discipline : Comments

By Kevin Donnelly, published 11/10/2013

The real problem - and one of the main reasons so many teachers leave after three to four years in the profession - is noisy and disruptive classrooms.

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This is another politically correct whitewash by the left wing teachers union who refuse to admit that the primary problem with school indiscipline is in those suburbs who have the highest concentration of crime and violence prone ethnicities.

Nowhere in Kevin Donnelly's article does he point out who the real troublemakers are, or what schools are experiencing the most trouble. He does not say that relief teachers, (especially female relief teachers) are refusing to teach in schools in the "troubled" South west of Sydney, where immigrant Middle Eastern boys have been taught by their foreign culture that females are inferior, and that females have no place telling "men" what to do. In "Boys in Schools" author Richard Fletcher told how one teacher at the notorious Canterbury Boy's High went on playground duty wearing a full face helmet because of violent attacks upon teachers by students. Some teachers have been threatened with rape, others have had rocks thrown onto their homes at night, and others have had their cars vandalised.

It is amusing in a way. The left wing teachers union supports multiculturalism when its own members are frightened of the very ethnic students they champion, and which are idiotic immigration policies are allowing to immigrate to Australia. When the problem becomes so bad that the teachers are getting frightened, people like Kevin come out writing absolute balderdash where the dreaded 'E" word is never mentioned.

John Cleese once said "don't mention the war", today's buffoons say "don't mention the ethnicity."

In the cause of Egalitarianism and Multiculturalism, Kevin tries the three monkey approach, and defines the problem as one affecting all schools and all ethnicities. It is just amazing how educated and supposedly intelligent people like Kevin can ignore self evident reality when it contravenes their Egalitarian ideology. Faith is an amazing thing.
Posted by LEGO, Friday, 11 October 2013 7:23:23 PM
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What should we do then Lego, throw all the 'ethnic' kids out of our schools?
If that were the case, we would only have Aboriginal schools left.

Trouble in schools has happened for years, despite the ethnic makeup of the classrooms.

Discipline does not have to be physical.
Many private schools have effective discipline methods for their pupils, so I don't see why they can't be followed at state schools.

Whether or not they get appropriate discipline at home or not, these kids need to have it at school. Any parent who doesn't like that discipline can move their kids to another school. They will soon run out of options.

I believe all schools should be divided into male and female classrooms for all grades.
Kids work better if there is no showing off to the opposite sex in the classrooms.
They can still socialize together at break times.
Posted by Suseonline, Saturday, 12 October 2013 2:29:08 AM
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Hi Susieonline.

When you find yourself stuck in a hole, the first thing to do is to stop digging. The time has come for the Teachers Federation to admit that the importation of certain ethnic and religious groups has been a social catastrophe for teachers in Australia, and that Australia should discriminate against those ethnicities and religions in future immigration programs.

Instead, when the problems of multiculturalism become so severe that we can no longer ignore them (like the fact that teachers are now refusing to teach in schools containing high proportions of students from these ethnicities and religions) we get articles written by ideologues like Kevin Donelly who complain about the effects of multiculturalism while ignoring the fact that multiculturalism is the problem.

I have spoken to NSW teachers of left wing and humanitarian persuasion who have ruefully admitted to me that some ethnicities are a real problem to teach. One teacher friend who married a man from Bathurst refused to live in Bathurst with her new husband, but eventually relented and said that she would do it for one year only.
She eventually divorced her husband, but now lives and teaches in Bathurst because the white Anglo Saxon country high school kids are so well behaved and are a pleasure to teach. She said that she could never go back to teaching in inner city high schools because of the problem of violent and disruptive students who are most commonly ethnic male students.

My objection to Kevin Donnelly's article is that it totally ignores this fact and presents the problem as a general one involving all ethnicities, religions and cultures in the same degree, when I am sure that he knows that this is not true. When people deliberately ignore the truth because it violates their ideology they destroy their own credibility and have no right to think of themselves as socially progressive. They have morphed to become the very social conservatives that they once reviled in their youth, who are struggling to hold on to a failed ideology by refusing to even acknowledge self evident truth.
Posted by LEGO, Saturday, 12 October 2013 6:45:11 AM
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I had a friend who when she was a young attractive women, became a teacher, only to met in the classroom with "Show us your tits Miss!". Didn't stay in that profession as I recall.

The irony of it is that on the one hand, the State makes schooling "compulsory". But then to enforce it, it has no compulsion. Why not? It's been abolished. (In fact the punishment nowadays for truancy is ... wait for it ... suspension.

Why no corporal punishment? Because people thought it was bad to use violence against children. And I'm not advocating it. But think: then why is it okay to use violence against people to force children to school in the first place?

We need to understand that there is nothing about the democratic process that co-ordinates its inputs to make them coherent, or add up to a sensible whole. Schools are on the receiving end of whatever dictates are politically fashionable from time to time. Modern compulsory so-called public schooling comes from old "blood and iron" Bismarck. You can be sure he had no principled objection to violence. The modern aversion to the cane comes from the political input of the 60s generation. Fact of the matter is, they're inconsistent.

Then the State, in a classic failure of interventionism, blames the victims - the parents who were forced to surrender their child to this sausage-factory indoctrination camp.

It is child abuse to force children to sit through that environment all day. It's mental torture for the extra bright or extra dull children who are outside of the core normal demographic aimed at. And what makes you think it's any better for the rest?

State schooling should be replaced with a voluntary system, abolishing the monopoly powers of the Board of Studies, and more freedom of choice. The State does not know better, and it's meat-axe approach, at best, is not as good as the many better alternatives available.
Posted by Jardine K. Jardine, Saturday, 12 October 2013 7:12:49 AM
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Susieonline

How do you square your support of separate-sex classrooms with your equalitarian views?

Sex discrimination should be illegal when you arbitrarily decide you don't like it, and compulsory when you arbitrarily decide you do, is that it?
Posted by Jardine K. Jardine, Saturday, 12 October 2013 7:17:35 AM
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Jardine, it is not discrimination when knowing that boys and girls learn differently, and it would benefit both sexes if this was done.

I was educated in a girls school and I have turned out very well :)
There was certainly plenty of discipline from the tough Nuns!
Posted by Suseonline, Saturday, 12 October 2013 11:15:08 AM
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