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Originally Posted by speakingtohe
When I went to school there were 30 to a class approximately. It was a lot different then as there was a stricter discipline maintained in elementary schools at least.
I went to one school though in 1967 (dating myself) where 2/3 teachers a year quit and there were at least two who were hospitalized, one for physical injuries, and one for a mental breakdown that was pretty well job related. And this is in Canada, small town, with 20 classrooms od about 30 students. Parents were no less lax in those days unfortunately. I think the percentages of parental discipline etc. may be slightly lower now due to more to income families, but it is far from a new problem and I think that the majority of parents were and are responsible parents. But like really bad teachers (and I had a couple) it is the bad ones who stand out and people tend to blame them all.
Helen
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I went to public school, and we were 30 per class, without much disciplinary problems. My kids go to private school, and there are a few disciplinary problems, but it is nothing compared to what is seen in public schools around here. And yet the police was in our school, as in every school in the district, to give a conference on the dangers of social networking and the increase of porn addiction in kids aged 13 to 15. And I don't believe that those problems are due to bad teachers, but to bad parenting. A tablet, a smartphone, a computer, those are not reliable babysitters, and yet they are so often used as such.
"Something is rotten in the state of Denmark..."