Vic stop lowering yourself to your usual depths for once please. I don’t want to beat children, I never have hit a child and I hopefully never will. What I want is the teachers to have the ability to enact a mildly form of punishment that used to exist in decades gone by. I’ve said I don’t wish to return to the 70s, with teachers having a mostly free reign to batter kids.
Class sizes under the Tories is one of the main contributing factors. I’ve no idea why you think I’m only attacking Labour on this and not the Tories, I’m just as critical of both.
I had started school. I started school before Blair was PM in 1996, thank you.
Again, I wish you’d actually read what I wrote. My criticism of Blair is about his accelerated approach to the comprehensive experiment and the further illegality of selecting on ability in areas, it’s nothing to do with his class sizes or funding. We all know Blair spent.
Overtime without being properly paid is a main reason too but to pretend controlling the classroom isn’t a factor is naive and ignorant. My mother in law has been a teacher for decades, I have 4 (1 former now) teachers in my immediate group of friends, one of which is a Deputy Head.
They’re all saying it’s not worth it and as I say the bubble will soon burst unless there’s vast investment and controls into education.