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Tuesday, September 16, 2003  
Radio Five Live had some interesting guff about delinquent children on yesterday (or maybe Sunday) morning, teachers living in fear of violence, having nervous breakdowns, suffering from depression, increased truancy, drug-taking, verbal and physical assualts by kids, kids with ADHD, kids on Ritalin, decreasing literacy etcetera etcetera. I'm not a teacher but my mum is, and several of my friends are becoming teachers ("why don't you, Nick?" - because I don't like kids), so I have possibly a slightly better idea of what goes on in schools than your average 20-something who isn't a teacher and doesn't have kids (plus the school my mum works at is one for special needs kids, so I hear first-hand from her the extremes of pupils' behavioural problems which are echoed in, but worse than, mainstream education).

Anyway, I'm particularly intrigued by the question of how, given all these facts about literacy and misbehavior and truancy and the like, GCSE and A Level results are still improving year-on-year. In the 45-minutes or so of the program I head, and in the various other discussions on the topic of bad behavior in schools over the last couple of years that I've heard on Five Live, the disparity between these two phenomena hasn't been addressed. I absolutely refuse to believe I'm the only person intrigued by this, so why isn't much more made of it?

9/16/2003 02:11:00 pm

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