Chroming WTF!

[fireyrob]

I remember my Grandma complaining about a lack of respect when I was young. Still to this day I tellthe old hag to get stuffed

[Nelso]

Secondly, schools are helpless and have no power to stop any of these behaviours because of years of parents complaining about the unfair treatment of their poor children. I would bet that if teachers were randomly walking into students sleeping quarters to check on them, people would be up in arms about the kids lack of privacy and the inappropriate behaviour of the teachers. You can't have it both ways. If you want teachers to have the power to discourage these behaviours, you need to give them the power to do so. If you want to be politically correct and give children the freedom of adults, expect schools to be helpless with these sort of things. Honestly, if any of you walked into a school these days you would be disgusted by the amount of red tape and bullshit you have to deal with to even put a child on a lunch detention! The lack of common sense that has allowed the school system to degrade into what it has become is astounding and it has all been driven by the stupid selfish parents complaining about the treatment of their, more often than not, degenerate kids.

Sadly, the only way to change these situations is to change the system but it's on a downward spiral and the government is talking about cutting more costs, so it's only going to get worse.

mate couldnt agree more in relation to the amount of control teachers have out there. It is a joke. Even to the point that kids are now taught they cant fail anything and you cant grade them as such. The real world doesnt work that way so why should or education system.

As to the not being able to monitor kids whilst they are in your care I find hard to swallow.

1 or 5 sneaking under the radar and doing something wrong then sure I could understand. But how can teachers not monitor near 50 kids to the point where they can carry doinf this for 2 nights in a row. Thats a bloody big blind spot if you ask me.
If they were in a dorm the surely you can monitor it. If they had shared motel rooms then that has to be alot of kids moving between rooms unnoticed.

I agree that parents need to suck it up a bit if they want teachers to also be guardians however it does seem like a big balls up on the schools end here if they cant even notice that number of kids playing up whilst in their care

Yeah fair point about the numbers involved and the fact that an incident that big (if the numbers are true) should have been noticed a lot earlier and stopped. There's also a fair chance that the teachers involved may well have been negligent and allowed this to happen while they were not paying attention so I'm not advocating that they are free from guilt (even though it may have come across that way), but I heard the beating of the anti-teacher drums warming up and just wanted to point out that it is getting harder and harder to control what goes on in schools and it is the direct result of this need for due process and the protection of the offending students' rights.

[hoffy]

I blame the government..

[Glen]

I blame the meth labs....FFS get your pricing and your distribution channels right and these kids would be buying proper drugs

[Jonnymac]

I blame the meth lads....FFS get your pricing and your distribution channels right and these kids would be buying proper drugs

Hehe

[rooster]

I blame the government..

+1 and the Churches and everyone else except those responsible because it wasnt their fault

[Frax]

I blame the government..

+1 and the Churches and everyone else except those responsible because it wasnt their fault

Well technically the government are the ones telling parents that they can't discipline there kids and that they have to "reason" with them. This must be were reasoning ends up.

[rooster]

Bart is to blame

[Glen]

Personally I think it's facebook that's the problem.

[rooster]

Nah Twitter

[mike-s]

I'd say myspace, but that's tumbleweed-town thanks to facebook.

[the kid]

I blame the government..

Always so wise Hoff

[mike-s]

I remember back in year 11 there was one idiot that did it all the time. Silly git knocked himself out more than once, one time collapsing and knocking two others off chairs next to him. Once he came to he was kicked out of the classroom. Fk'n idiot.