Monday, 6 July 2015 - 8:57pm
I find the prescription here unintelligible. School is bullying. Staff included. That's the primary function. If you had to start from scratch you couldn't design a system more efficient at generating bullying or less efficient at generating education. If you disagree, please try to recall whether you were/are a bully or merely a complicit bystander (victims tend to be under no illusions as to their status). You can't have "school based interventions" to cure school. I left school able to read and write, as I could do when I went in. Except that by the time I left I had been persuaded that these activities, like any others directed at fulfilling my potential, were pointless and likely only to draw the ire of mindless oafs. Staff included.