Yhe Government should make parents of disruptive school children pay back all the clildrens allowance they received for that particular child. Then these parent/s ensure that their children are then "school ready". The government can then make provision for those children who not "school ready"

Yhe Government should make parents of disruptive school children pay back all the clildrens allowance they received for that particular child. Then these parent/s wil ensure that their children are then "school ready". The government can then make provision for those children who not "school ready"

I taught in a NSW secondary school for a year! It was the worst year of my life. Things have gone downhill in schools since then.

I contrast the experience I had with the Chinese school system recently, the desperation that parents feel as they try to encourage their well-behaved children to do well so they can get well-paying jobs.

The sacking of a teacher who'd been king-hit by his student sets a very bad precedent. The student should have been sent to reform school and his parents should have been charged with neglect!

Teachers need community support. They are professionals who must be treated with respect and must be protected from thuggish students by the police if necessary.

If students become thugs and hoodlums, what are they going to do when they enter adulthood?

I know two teachers who have recently resigned from the State system and who are now teaching in Private schools, the revival of their former outgoing and happy demeanor has been a joy to see.

These two were on the point of giving up teaching entirely.

A former partner who spent a year as a teacher in a State school was utterly disgusted and discouraged by her experiences, fortunately she retrained, at her own expense, as an ESL teacher and has never looked back.
The big difference is that her students want to learn.

don't you know teachers are just lazy unionist sucking the contry dry.

Society reaping what it has sown. Children brought up to expect everything and give nothing in return. No respect, few boundaries and no means of enforcing. Shame on the NSW Education Dept. Shame on the Teachers Union.