Telegraph | News | Children to be given classes on how to be ‘nice’
This the one you were thinking of?
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2 responses to “For Barbara: Telegraph | News | Children to be given classes on how to be 'nice'”
Oh, you star, lol. That was the one. Although for some reason not exactly the same as the written one. The on-line version was longer, I’m sure, because I don’t remember the examples of what (and how) was actually going to be covered, (*rolling eyes*) and it didn’t include the quote I remembered in my last comment. But yes, that’s the general gist. Talk about taking the learning out of context, though. Do they really think this will work? At least they recognise there is a problem, I suppose.
Will it work? probably not on the whole. But that said, having spent the last 3 days in what was for me one of the worst schools I’ve been in in terms of children’s behaviour, I am reminded that there are significant numbers of children out there quite disfunctional in many ways in the way they relate to their peers and to the adults around them. While i’m sure that the stuctures of the educational system acecerbates this for some of them, HE probably isn’t the answer for many of them either. I suspect thr answer lies deeper in our society.