I totally agree kids do need discipline but the problem is that teachers have no control any more in how they are allowed to correct children from misbehaving. You're not even allowed to touch a pupil these days example most of the time I teach drums so if I'm trying to demonstrate to the pupil with him all her sitting behind a drum kit and I want that pupil to put one leg here one hand there we must not touch the pupil so regarding the hands I always guide them with their drumsticks so I'm not having any contact at all which at times can be quite frustrating.
I've been teaching in one class and sometimes I can see into the other
through the glass. glass has to be fitted in all doors now you are not supposed to be in a room which others cannot see into on a couple of occasions I've seen teachers get punched to the floor and there is nothing a teacher can do about it.
Even now when you have to write the annual yearly school report you can't write how you feel. So for example if I think that this pupil is a waste of time because he or she does not practise there instrument and feel it's a waste of money for the parents to keep paying out I cannot say it like that.=have to keep bums on seats
I actually spent 13 years teaching around on average 17 schools a week and last Easter I'd had enough so now I just teach privately. Today's teaching is a dangerous business to be in and that is why all the good old-fashioned teachers are moving on. I know one headmaster quit his job and got another working in I t and never regrets it but it's not just the behaviour problem its all the paperwork allso .teachers spend most all their holidays doing lesson plans explaining their self etc.