Post by Mr Pendle on Sept 15, 2005 14:43:00 GMT
Full-time PC for troubled school
A HIGH school is to become the first in Lancashire to have its own full-time policeman in a bid to improve pupils' behaviour.
Police said the pilot scheme would be introduced at Blakewater College, Blackburn, after problems with anti-social behaviour from pupils in the past.
The officer will be expected to help children develop respect for themselves and their community as well as intervening if there is any trouble.
Read the full article here
www.thisislancashire.co.uk/lancashire/news/LETTOPNEWS0.html
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Mr. Pendle says
So schools now need to employ full-time policemen to improve pupils' behaviour?
Correct me of I'm wrong, but isn't or wasn't that the job of the teachers and headmaster?
Or more to the point the "parents".
In my school days [ahem] anti-social behavior was the norm with truency and anti-scocial, anti-christ, anarchy badges etc. plastered all over our shirts.
So what's changed?
If a school does poorly in the league tables does that mean its pupils are anti-social?
I noted the Council are paying the wages for 3 years for the nursery bobby, with the money coming from the council taxes no doubt.
So if you'e on the board of school governers or the parent teachers association, why not recommend throwing almost a £million pound at the school, that should eliminate the ant-social behaviour?
What a load of tosh!
We live in an ever increasing society that seems to think that launching tax payers money at everything will solve most problems.
Here's a quote from a spokesman in the article...
A spokesman for the school said: "The police identified areas that perhaps have more significant crime figures and then looked at the local high school, recognising that's a good way in. "We are educating the adults of tomorrow."
Mr. Pendle thinks not Mr spokesman: you are not educating the adults of tomorrow, you are merely showing the children of today that discipline and moral in schools isn't working.
The pupils' will be wallowing in the fact that 'they' have to have a copper to control us lot!
Employing a bobby in schools will only boost the ego of a few pupils, and ruin the reputation of a school for the rest.
What do other readers think on this issue?
A HIGH school is to become the first in Lancashire to have its own full-time policeman in a bid to improve pupils' behaviour.
Police said the pilot scheme would be introduced at Blakewater College, Blackburn, after problems with anti-social behaviour from pupils in the past.
The officer will be expected to help children develop respect for themselves and their community as well as intervening if there is any trouble.
Read the full article here
www.thisislancashire.co.uk/lancashire/news/LETTOPNEWS0.html
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Mr. Pendle says
So schools now need to employ full-time policemen to improve pupils' behaviour?
Correct me of I'm wrong, but isn't or wasn't that the job of the teachers and headmaster?
Or more to the point the "parents".
In my school days [ahem] anti-social behavior was the norm with truency and anti-scocial, anti-christ, anarchy badges etc. plastered all over our shirts.
So what's changed?
If a school does poorly in the league tables does that mean its pupils are anti-social?
I noted the Council are paying the wages for 3 years for the nursery bobby, with the money coming from the council taxes no doubt.
So if you'e on the board of school governers or the parent teachers association, why not recommend throwing almost a £million pound at the school, that should eliminate the ant-social behaviour?
What a load of tosh!
We live in an ever increasing society that seems to think that launching tax payers money at everything will solve most problems.
Here's a quote from a spokesman in the article...
A spokesman for the school said: "The police identified areas that perhaps have more significant crime figures and then looked at the local high school, recognising that's a good way in. "We are educating the adults of tomorrow."
Mr. Pendle thinks not Mr spokesman: you are not educating the adults of tomorrow, you are merely showing the children of today that discipline and moral in schools isn't working.
The pupils' will be wallowing in the fact that 'they' have to have a copper to control us lot!
Employing a bobby in schools will only boost the ego of a few pupils, and ruin the reputation of a school for the rest.
What do other readers think on this issue?
