Is the behaviour of school pupils worse than in the past? Anybody hearing about the government’s appointment of behaviour expert Tom Bennett to lead a new taskforce to tackle low-level disruption might conclude that this is the case.
The reality, of course, is that this sort of behaviour is nothing new. While pupils playing on mobile phones may be a relatively recent issue, irritants such as children swinging on chairs, tapping their desks with rulers, and making silly comments were ever thus.
It was probably just as much a part of life in classrooms in the era of Tom Brown’s Schooldays as it is today.
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