ACT will give classroom teachers an explicit legal power to direct a student to leave the room for serious or persistent disruption, backed in law, very much like the operation of the school cell phone ban.
This sounds reasonable, but I know there are lots of parents with kids who are neurodiverse, who think (some not all) schools already use removing their kid from the classroom as a first resort, instead of a last one. There is of course a balance to be had, but younger kids especially sometimes just need help with emotional regulation, not being evicted from a classroom.
ACT will give clear legal protection to staff who use reasonable and proportionate intervention to prevent harm, so that order in the classroom can be maintained.
Fine.
ACT will give clear legal protection to staff who use reasonable and proportionate intervention to prevent harm, so that order in the classroom can be maintained.
Fine.
ACT will ensure any assault on a teacher, student, or any member of school staff triggers an automatic school response: immediate removal, then a mandatory stand-down or suspension, ending the current school-by-school inconsistency.
This is potentially problematic. If you are talking about say a 16 year-old whacking a teacher, sure. But are they saying that two seven year olds who get in a fight must be stood down? That would be crazy.
ACT will require a parent or guardian meeting when behaviour repeats or turns serious.
Fine.
David Farrar runs Curia Market Research, a specialist opinion polling and research agency, and the popular Kiwiblog where this article was sourced. He previously worked in the Parliament for eight years, serving two National Party Prime Ministers and three Opposition Leaders
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Ask the NZ born educator, Katherine Birbalsingh, who runs the most academically successful state school in England, how she does it and top of her list is ‘discipline and high expectations’ and that discipline does include removing ill behaved kids from classrooms.
We have had enough of Progressive's permissive discipline. Sure Hyperactivity etc is a difficult thing for a child to manage themselves but laissez -faire environments are not helpful for neuro -diverse children either , The general education of the whole class is as important as the .the care of the individual . We have classrooms particularly at primary where children amble around freely, in and out of the classroom, create disturbance and make it increasingly difficult for a teacher - hence the teacher shortage particularly in STEM subjects.
The welfare of the whole class should be paramount not the needs of an individual . Stricter discipline is needed.
I agree with everything Katherine Burbalsinghe says . She has very happy , secure high achieving students with traditional methods and discipline . That for me is exactly what in NZ we have lost.
Bring it back .Bring it back. Bring it back . It would be the answer to much that has gone wrong here including our longest tail of under-achievement which is a factor in bad behaviour along with neuro-diversity and 'gentle ' parenting . Gaynor
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