I think the press coverage is very negative, and if you read the comments on the daily mail website it was a lot better then they suggest. I watched it on the Channel 4 website this morning.
Respectively, I thought that it portrayed the school in a good light, considering the restrictions imposed on them.
I was impressed with how the deputy head related and understood the students, and knew how to discipline them and didn't react to their baiting and seemed to maintain control. I personnally could not have done his job, and would probably have thrown one of those kids through the wall, hence why i'm not a teacher.
Whilst I strongly feel that the discipline is lacking in schools, I think these teachers pretty much push it the limits that they can legally go. I'm sure a lot of the male teachers would probably want to go a lot harder and really toughen up in th schools, but they aren't allowed and the parents would complain etc etc.
The 'Academy' schools in the UK are doing just that, and the parents are crying.. But they are getting the results.
That being said; my children will never see the inside of a UK state school. I came through the state education system, and have worked hard to make sure my children don't.
