Similarly, kids didn’t used to claim a NEED to go to the toilet repeatedly in lesson time. Often whilst choosing not to go at breaks/lunch. Very often deliberate work avoidance. Need to be honest.
If more people outside of education could see what can happen inside schools, there would be a much bigger constituency for change. Part of the problem is that people outside the sector find it hard to grasp how challenging it is to manage a room with 25 children when some of them don’t care to do as they are asked.
A lot of the very loud voices against suspension / exclusion appear to come from very biased & often ill informed positions. Many of them haven’t run schools.
We’re teaching children to see struggle as signs of mental ill health. In doing so, schools risk becoming places of emotional management rather than intellectual growth, thus becoming traumagenic.
What if suffering is a sane response to adversity, not a condition to be treated?
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