Debate 1: What’s going on in your school?
From June 08 to July 30
We are holding monthly debates on different themes. Our first theme is EDUCATION.
Here’s something to get you started!
A new law has come into force (the Education and Inspections Act 2006) that says schools must ask children and young people their views on how to encourage good behaviour and deal with poor behaviour. The Government has given advice to schools on things like praising and rewarding good behaviour, using detentions (including at weekends), removing property from children and young people and making decisions about school uniform. It says punishments should never degrade or humiliate children and young people.
What’s going on in your school? Are you getting a say on the school rules? Do you have a school council that can make real decisions? Have you been told how you can complain if you need to?
On Monday, June 18, 2007 acorn said:
My school doesn’t have anything where children can have a say, we are told what to do and when and how.
From the moment we get to school we are bullied by the teachers and made to feel stupid.
We do not have rights, and if a teacher accuses you of something you get punished even when it wasn’t you.
We don’t get a choice in what to eat, what to wear or rules.
On Thursday, June 21, 2007 Alina-Faith said:
In our school we have a school council but it is rubbish and doesn’t do anything or let any other childern have their say on anything at all
On Tuesday, July 03, 2007 arwenevenstar1992 said:
I am a member of my school council and no matter how enthusiatic the members may be all the rest of the schoool wants to discuss is why we have to have school coats in lower years and why the school toilets can’t be changed/repainted/redecorated etc… We regularly have a headtecaher Question Time where the whole school has the chance to ask the headteacher directly any queries they have. Recently the school has been looking for a new headteacher and as a representative body of the student communtiy we interviwed the candidates and gave feed-back to the governors.
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Like everyone else, are school has a pretty good school council. So far, we have (I’m on it) refurnished toilets, done mock parliament elections to get people ready for when they can vote, interviewed loads of staff and youth workers, gone to numerous school council meetings accross England, took part in school council exchange, re-wrote the citenship syllabus and done millions of assemblies.