pumpkinstrokemarrow

Following the last post, I thought I ought to see what I could find out about classroom discipline.

First stop, national statistics. Nice whizzy web site. Asked it about discipline and got a few irrelevant results. Asked it about classroom discipline and got nothing.

Second stop, department for training and life statistics. Or whatever they are called. Asked it about classroom discipline and got pointed at a whole lot of what appeared to be teacher statistics. Not much help either.

Third stop, asked Mr G about classroom discipline. Zillions of articles about how to manage difficult classes, mostly with a transatlantic flavour. Lots of articles from teachers who have or can sell the magic bullet or the magic incantation. So, to that extent, there is clearly an issue out there. But did not spot anything on trends on same.

So, so far, no further ahead on deciding whether things are better or worse than they were in the good old days.

But have done rather better on the tweeting front. On the way home, just at dusk, saw the first fly catcher of the year swinging about above the trees. Quite small, so a marten, I think, rather than a swift or swallow. Tried to check, but Mr G. a bit quirky on the subject of 'marten bird'. He seems to think that I want to buy a loudspeaker or to play poker.