Discipline hit the headlines recently after education secretary Michael Gove urged schools to punish students in more traditional ways, including writing lines, clearing up graffiti and litter, and weekend detentions.
What this government has failed to take on board is that while a strong and consistent system of discipline will work in most schools for a majority of students, our society has changed considerably and so have the children who grow up within it.
Serious neglect, gang culture, poverty, poor attachment, traumatic home lives rife with addictions and “normalised” violence, absent parents all go towards creating disturbed children who will never respond in a normal way within a classroom environment.
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