March 22, 2010
Published: 3 Sep 09 10:39 CET
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A seventh grade high school student was absent from school for a whole year, but neither the school nor the county council raised the alarm, according to a report in the Östgöta Correspondenten newspaper.
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Another issue is the slack system allowed in this country. The kids are in control because they are out of control. No parental guidance. And so it goes, a society with discipline, boundaries and respect leads to desstruction.
@ lisaann: re: parental guidance: i don't understand why people believe the only way to raise a child properly is by corporal punishment and why people seem to have stopped raising their kids, period, after legislation was brought that forbade hitting kids.
my mum and dad never hit me or my brother, yet they still managed to give us values and a perspective. is it laziness? i guess it's easy to smack your child and difficult to come up with a different strategy if smacking is not an option.
yet, if i am not prepared to raise and educate my child, i should not have any kids in the first place.
it's 8-12 year old kids who will already behave badly and if you try to discipline them by cutting their freedom they will get back at you the mean way. not just funny little pranks like sticking a post-it to your back. they will scratch your car, they will damage anything and everything they can reach if they believe that you have crossed their will one too many times. they will come to your home at night and throw eggs, they will dig up your lawn in the middle of the night, they will send you death threats and some of the older ones even went as far as having a teacher beat up by a couple of thugs because he cancelled a field trip due to bad behaviour.
maybe kids in sweden are raised better. maybe parents and teachers are more in control. but i have seen how bad it can get. i have seen grown men and women afraid of teaching a class of 8 year olds.
I used to get the cane when I was at school and it hasn't caused me any damage. All it did was keep me in line. Yes there may be other ways, or better ways, but as a rebelious teenager you don't always listen to reason do you.
Well said pigeon hunter.
More parents need to make sure that they know where their children are; far to many are "busy parents" and don't take their responsibilities seriously. That being said, the school should have called the parents AT WORK to make sure they know about the lack of attendance.
The parents actions were BLATANT CHILD ABUSE!
Maybe they just say sorry and pay a fine.
Lets not point the finger at UK kids. Its a big topic depending on what erea you were teaching. There is a difference between teaching in Battersea to teaching in Chelsea. I think this problem is worldwide. America not so long ago had a masked man come in with a gun and shot fellow pupils. Sweden are not exempt from this problem, and you cant blame this behaviour on the parents alone. Look at all the celebs who have came out with top education, top this and that, and look they turn to drugs...
Its a worldwide issue with loopholes in the law. Note also in UK class sizes can be big. Normally are.