Teaching A Generation of Potential Informers

This is probably the most depressing thing I have heard all year.

A friend who has just completed his teacher training to be a Junior School teacher, observed a teacher in the classroom attempting to restore order. Having told the children to be quiet, she demanded "Put your hand up if the boy or girl next to you was talking".

Many of the children then did just that, reporting their friends for talking.

I know memories of schooldays are selective, but I'm sure the rule that you never told on another boy or girl was virtually absolute.

Thirty years on we seem to be teaching children with the aim of creating a very different kind of society............

Comments

[Daniel Owen]

Scary, scary Orwellian stuff.

[jim jay]

I think kids are better behaved now than my generation was. It's very disturbing.

[Duncan Money]

Bloody hell, I always thought the general rule was that if you grassed on someone you got a good hiding.

It wasn't that long ago since I left school either.