Comments by "David Getling" (@DavidGetling) on "Mercy Muroki: There's no discipline in classrooms any more, teachers are too afraid to enforce order" video.

Let me take you back over 20 years to when I was doing my PGCE teaching practice. In my Y10 maths class I had about 4 bad boys who were hell bent on disrupting lessons. I could see the looks of despair on the faces of the other 25 or so kids who wanted to learn and were very unhappy. But the bleeding heart teacher was more interested in building a good relationship with the bad boys. When I took over from her I came down on these boys like a ton of bricks. Bleeding heart teacher wasn't at all happy, telling me that these kids had a right to their education: the rights of the good kids kind of escaped her. So she took these bad boys out to teach by herself, while I kept the rest of the class. And you know what. It was as if a magic wand had been waved. Suddenly I had happy kids who were able to learn in lessons that weren't disrupted.
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