A culture whereby students absolve themselves of responsibility, and teachers being made to apologise to parents is contributing to the growing disruption in Australia’s classrooms, experts say.
A Senate inquiry into disruptive classrooms has been told the story of a high school teacher who had to apologise to parents after giving a student “improvement strategies”.
The story of the teacher asked to apologise to the parents was recounted to the inquiry by the Dean of Education at the Australian Catholic University, Paul Kidson, who said parents and students had too often been given a free pass in the schooling system. However, he said there had also been an increase in the “overmedicalising of the normal human condition”. Last year there wasfor drugs used to treat anxiety in children, the biggest annual increase seen in a decade.
Literacy instruction provider Multilit chief executive Robyn Wheldall said simply creating engaging lessons would not resolve behaviour problems. The physical environment of the classroom had an effect on behaviour: she said arranging desks so students faced one another in small groups in primary school might seem to create a “nice” collaborate environment was not always conducive to learning.
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