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March 24th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda
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Sarah Harris
20:48 EST, 23 March 2012
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20:49 EST, 23 March 2012
Surrogates: Sir Michael Wilshaw, head of Ofsted, said schools are picking up after bad parents
Schools have become ‘surrogate’ families to pupils due to bad parenting and the damaging influence of celebrity culture, the head of Ofsted warned yesterday.
Sir Michael Wilshaw, chief inspector of schools, said teachers are being forced to step into the ‘vacuum’ and set good examples ‘where few exist at home’.
Schools are having to ‘make up for wider failings’ in society where children lack proper ‘family, cultural and community values’, he added.
They must also combat a self-obsessed culture which ‘puts such emphasis on celebrity and instant gratification’, he told the Association of School and College Leaders’ annual conference.
Sir Michael told delegates in Birmingham that society should consider whether it is giving enough support to schools and their head teachers.
He said: ‘A culture which is sometimes self-obsessed and puts such emphasis on celebrity and instant gratification doesn’t necessarily foster in our young people the essential virtues of effort and diligence which are so fundamental to success at schools and colleges and life.
‘Our youngsters are too often exposed to double standards, where bad behaviour and violence are publicly condemned but endlessly available as entertainment.
‘As a result, schools are too often asked to make up for much wider failings within families and communities. Too often, children grow up without the family, cultural and community values they need to thrive.
‘This is, I hasten to add, not a
counsel of despair – far from it – simply a belief, grounded in
experience, that schools can step into the vacuum and make a difference;
even if this means being unfashionable, counter-cultural and setting
good examples where few exist at home.
Damaging: Sir Michael, pictured on a visit to St Mary’s School in Battersea, London, attacked the bad influence of celebrity culture
‘I have often said that schools in the most difficult circumstances have no option but to be surrogate parents so that children can achieve and I don’t retreat from that position.’
Earlier, Joan McVittie, president of the ASCL, said that schools are having to show pupils how to consider others, control their anger and resolve conflicts peacefully.
She told the conference: ‘Many young people learn their values in school. Sadly some of their parents are unable to provide guidance and often the values provided by their peer groups takes precedence over all else.
‘This is a huge responsibility for all of us and top of the responsibility of education.’
Mrs McVittie is head of Woodside High School, in Wood Green, London, which was praised by David Cameron in the aftermath of last summer’s riots.
Speaking before the conference, Mrs McVittie said that her pupils are taught that hard work is crucial and very few people walk on to The X Factor and achieve ‘instant success’.
She added: ‘When we talk to our students about rights and responsibilities, what they have to remember is that their rights and responsibilities are not entitled to override those of everyone else. They have a responsibility to think of other people.’
Brian Lightman, general secretary of the ASCL, said some TV soap operas are unhelpful as they display ‘very emotive’ language and ‘histrionics’.
However, children need to learn that they can’t ‘just sound off’ every time they are ‘a little bit angry’.
He added: ‘Children are faced with a lot of different role models these days, not all of which are the most positive. They will see examples on TV or celebrity culture of people not speaking in the right way and not interacting in the way we would expect them to.
‘In many ways, schools are the last bastion of those traditional values. We do assert old-fashioned standards of discipline and we do so unashamedly.
‘There’s a whole raft of values we would try to incorporate into the ethos of a school. To me, that’s the important part of the curriculum of a school, over and above the obvious things you have on the timetable.’
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CHAV culture and socialist engineering just coming to bite you in the rear.
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Michael Wilshaw has achieved the near impossible by becoming an even greater pain in the backside as Chief inspector of schools than the hypocrite Chris Woodhead. Wilshaw is an old man who should now be retired and boring his mates down the pub with his ‘when I was a lad’ stories; not using them as a basis for educational policy
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Teachers lost the plot in the early seventies when I remember the call was, ‘It’s not up to teachers to teach children right from wrong’.
Teachers USED to teach children how to behave, what was acceptable and what was not. Yes, they used the cane or slipper, children knew that their were barriers beyond which they should not go.
– Susan Cooper, Nantwich, 24/03/2012 09:35
Parents also used to respect teachers not threaten them when pupils were corrected or punished for bad behaviour.
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Every child knows their human rights but some are not taught their responsibilities maybe a better balance should prevail. The few in our schools seem to be ruling the well behaved and industrious majority; this has been a problem since I started teaching in 1969. Nothing really changes some children need more support in some aspects of their education and this support needs to be funded and given as required.
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Narcissism
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Would,nt you just love to punch that smug Sir Michael Wilshaw,s mug
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Teachers lost the plot in the early seventies when I remember the call was, ‘It’s not up to teachers to teach children right from wrong’.
Teachers USED to teach children how to behave, what was acceptable and what was not. Yes, they used the cane or slipper, children knew that their were barriers beyond which they should not go.
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Parents who are prepared to teach their children discipline and respect are demonised by the hand-wringing “mustn’t smack” brigade, who seem to be incapable of joining the dots between the decline in child discipline over the past 30 years and last years rioting yobs.
Then there’s “Chavs-R-Us” who believe it’s perfectly acceptable to smoke, drink and swear in front of their kids, and who think nothing of swearing AT the kids too.
So – repeal the Children Act that gives the little blighters more rights than the adults who are responsible for them and STOP PAYING PEOPLE TO HAVE CHILDREN!!! The idea that the taxpayer should somehow be responsible for other people’s kids is ridiculous. You want children? Make sure you can afford to have them, otherwise use contraception.
There’d be no need to ruin the countryside with swathes of ugly new houses either because the population would suddenly stop growing.
Wins all round.
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When you have kids having kids then its not surprising and as far as the others go as soon as the kid is breached its stuck in a nursery all day while the parents are working- what family values then.
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Such a sweeping statement Michael Wilshaw. I endeavour to teach my children values, morals, and a manner of other things. Yes it’s a hard job. Schools don’t always get it right. My children go to a school where the teachers are lovely. The head teacher leaves somewhat to be desired and should be given lessons in humanity and equality rather than interrogation. If a child does something wrong or naughty punish them and I’ll back the school all the way but make sure the next child to do the same thing gets the same punishment not “oh we’ll never mind” and nothing.
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