tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5227064496185547313.post6318935998899797518..comments2024-03-19T09:11:55.829+00:00Comments on Magnon's Meanderings: This is where it all starts!Cro Magnonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06840670227576695352noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5227064496185547313.post-67307159472896883632011-08-12T02:12:19.267+01:002011-08-12T02:12:19.267+01:00Great post, very well spoken!Great post, very well spoken!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5227064496185547313.post-38318243891553375462011-08-11T22:36:52.556+01:002011-08-11T22:36:52.556+01:00Smattering of applause... nervous cough from the ...Smattering of applause... nervous cough from the chairman of the govenors...Tom Stephensonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05979590950587415840noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5227064496185547313.post-42280289470834901902011-08-11T21:15:01.613+01:002011-08-11T21:15:01.613+01:00Well said Cro - I think John and Heron made some g...Well said Cro - I think John and Heron made some good points and I liked all the other comments too!Mollyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08604864977387798470noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5227064496185547313.post-68344832997229248712011-08-11T15:58:08.855+01:002011-08-11T15:58:08.855+01:00I'm with John too, but here I was just talking...I'm with John too, but here I was just talking about the schooling side of things. I couldn't agree more about the importance of family.Cro Magnonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06840670227576695352noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5227064496185547313.post-23796051628931068052011-08-11T15:46:05.101+01:002011-08-11T15:46:05.101+01:00I'm with John Grey on this. I just left a post...I'm with John Grey on this. I just left a post on another blog...about the book Lord of the Flies. Family is crucial, extended family is crucial, community is crucial and so is schooling, but going by Goldings book and insight into human behaviour, then all must take responsibility for their own actions and that needs to be taught at an early age. Ohhh another rant...sorry blogland friends!Gerry Snapehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07269492251928362799noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5227064496185547313.post-27034989643163975922011-08-11T13:11:59.160+01:002011-08-11T13:11:59.160+01:00Well said. Kat from the Compound.Well said. Kat from the Compound.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5227064496185547313.post-2949960469943967672011-08-11T12:30:43.002+01:002011-08-11T12:30:43.002+01:00I can only imagine what it must be like to be a ch...I can only imagine what it must be like to be a child living in an inner city, surrounded by bricks, concrete & tarmac and constant noise.<br />I have no knowledge of deprivation on any level, for my up bringing can best be described as middle class however, I do realize that today's young people live under tremendous pressures: commercialism and other rabidness; therefore it ill behoves me to condemn that which I am ignorant of knowing.A Heron's Viewhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06563706152609630696noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5227064496185547313.post-66392262678381240592011-08-11T10:13:09.359+01:002011-08-11T10:13:09.359+01:00I imagine that all this rioting and aggressiveness...I imagine that all this rioting and aggressiveness comes from idle hands and boredom.<br />School is responsible for a certain amount but I think they need to learn life's lessons from home.I wonder what the parents are thinking at this point about their kids as they watch a beautiful city disrupted,I <br />imagine they don't give a rats a..e.<br />Unfortunately like a lot of things these days everyone wants someone else to do their job for them.carole johnstonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05721058683205450682noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5227064496185547313.post-16480730361502404362011-08-11T09:06:00.349+01:002011-08-11T09:06:00.349+01:00I am not sure I agree
Sure I think good schooling ...I am not sure I agree<br />Sure I think good schooling is vital but what I do think is that parents and the extended family should "start as they mean to go" when the child is a baby.<br />consistency and discipline at home followed by consistency and discipline at school<br /><br />and everyone should remember that Children ARE children NOT little adultsJohn Going Gentlyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14958171262765033946noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5227064496185547313.post-88439835012492819992011-08-11T08:26:20.080+01:002011-08-11T08:26:20.080+01:00My old school slotted into this category. On refle...My old school slotted into this category. On reflection it was the teachers that were largely to blame in not sorting out the trouble makers and constantly turning a blind-eye. I'm not saying all teachers are 'bad' teachers, just the ones at my school. They were appalling.<br /><br />When I left school for college, the doors really opened up - no classroom fuck-ups to disrupt things (pupils or teachers)...Chrishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11487456386841182116noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5227064496185547313.post-37347325513386168812011-08-11T07:17:15.220+01:002011-08-11T07:17:15.220+01:00I'm in wholehearted agreement with you here. ...I'm in wholehearted agreement with you here. The other thing I've been thinking is that this education system started to fail people at least forty years ago when I was at primary school by not noticing when parents then couldn't cope with their child rearing role. There were kids in my class who stank of stale wee day in and day out, year after year. I heard that some of them ended up in prison in their adolescence. What sort of parents and grandparents have these people who were brought up with so little hope made themselves?lovelygreyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03495658084025268325noreply@blogger.com