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discipline in sixth form

pippa23

(edited 13 years ago)

Reply 1

Candescence

Our sixth form works fine, there isn't really any form of set discipline, i don't know anybody thats had a detention or anything in sixth form.

The thing is that in the sixth form you can have a laugh with the teachers cause they don't look down on you any more. Which can mean lessons where you barely learn 2 lines...but its still fun :p:

Generally if you're in sixth form it means you want to continue your education (or you have pushy parents) so people tend to keep themselves in check when its important.

Reply 2

Oddball

11

It's relaxed a lot - there is a large difference in how teachers take it, though.

Chatting / swearing / being generally crude has no effect on some teachers, they just let us get on with it (which I think is the right way to go, letting us make our own mistakes and all that business). The other teachers mother us, too much I think. Treat us a bit like the lower school.

Reply 3

Make_It

We can still get detentions..
But I think that's only of we miss 2 homework deadlines in one term.
harsh for people who have a 5 second memory, like me XD

Otherwise, they just expect us to behave...which generally we do thinking about it.

Reply 4

Citizen Zero

13

I think my 6th form took a "your life, screw it up if you want" kind of attitude.

It's not that they didn't try to discipline us, it's just that our 6th form was a selective grammar school type and all the chavs got filtered out when they all failed to get into the 6th form.

So there weren't any major discipline problems. No detentions were given out, and I think the worst was being put on report (that is, having to carry a little book around with you to each lesson and getting the teacher to sign it).

Reply 5

Pollypeptide

5

Citizen Zero

I think my 6th form took a "your life, screw it up if you want" kind of attitude.

It's not that they didn't try to discipline us, it's just that our 6th form was a selective grammar school type and all the chavs got filtered out when they all failed to get into the 6th form.

So there weren't any major discipline problems. No detentions were given out, and I think the worst was being put on report (that is, having to carry a little book around with you to each lesson and getting the teacher to sign it).

A very steriotypical view there. Many would call me a chav, because of the way I dress, and don't speak quite as posh as your "upper class type" :rolleyes:

. But, i'm at sixth form and doing quite well as it happens, better than most some might argue.

Reply 6

pippa23

OP

so no one has had any problems in their 6th form?!?!?! you must go to really gd schools! my school is a private one and yet we have loads of people in trouble. like today someone got sent out of the lesson for talking in class and another had to stand next to the teachers desk all lesson because they had been making paper aeroplanes!

Reply 7

Citizen Zero

13

JordanSHowarth

A very steriotypical view there. Many would call me a chav, because of the way I dress, and don't speak quite as posh as your "upper class type" :rolleyes:

. But, i'm at sixth form and doing quite well as it happens, better than most some might argue.

I didn't mean "chav" as in a sweeping generalisation by their looks or the way they dressed - I was just referring to those in my school who were actually chavs who didn't get into the 6th form.

I come from a working-class background too, y'know. :smile:

Reply 8

wizard710

16

Is there a difference between 6th form colleges and 6th form in schools in terms of the teachers being more relaxed or not

Reply 9

ChrisTheRockGod

14

mine's a separate sixth form, so detention doesn't exist.

The most disciplining I've ever seen is someone being sternly reminded to stop talking.

Nothing compared to what it was like at secondary school

Reply 10

CommunistHamster

The new year 12s are quite unruly. Last year, our year 12 broke one (1, single) pool cue. This year, the new year 12 has so far broken at least 4. Its the same group of people, I wish they'd do something worse and get expelled.

I fear the worst about the school leaving age rise.

Reply 11

Joanna May

15

We can't get detentions anymore, and the teachers can't really punish us properly. However, most teachers seem to be more relaxed this year. They know we're here because we choose to be, so it's our own time we're wasting by not giving in homework and talking in lessons.

Reply 12

Original Legend

well its a bit sad to be "naughty" in sixth form, but they will take so much and then just kick you out!

Reply 13

wizard710

16

pippa23

i was talking in class today and during an experiment was messing around so managed to get iodine all over the desks floor and ceiling! needless to say my teacher wasnt impressed and i had to stand at the side of the room for the rest of the lesson and have a lecture about responsibilities after the lesson. then i was told to come for detention at lunchtime and have been put on report as my behaviour has apparently been 'leading up to this!' so i have an appointed teacher who i have to see once a week and talk about how im doing and my form tutor has to check ive done my homework every morning!

quite an excessive punishment i think as ive never been in trouble before!

That is tight, but if gravity makes everythin fall to earth, how did you get Iodine on the celing?

Reply 14

zzzzzoe

11

ours is pretty strict; we get babied quite a bit i think..
eg) we'll get told off if we dont do work, parents will be informed, we arent allowed mobiles on or they get confiscated etc.

Reply 15

Angelil

19

tbh there was never any need for the teachers to sanction us. This was probably because a) most teachers were more relaxed with us and willing to partake in a bit of banter; b) the classes were much smaller so there wasn't much point in mucking about as it would be pretty obvious that it was you doing the mucking about [unlike in a class of 30!] and c) any teachers that weren't any more relaxed with us were still uber-strict so you wouldn't want to mess about anyway as you knew you'd get in trouble with them regardless. Though if I'm honest, I'm inclined to believe that if you're so immature as to still be messing about in lessons to the point of disruption, then there's not much point in you being there at all.

Reply 16

Annaconda

17

one of my teachers (maths) yells at us for doing the tiniest thing now, but at the begining of the year i scribbled all over my work , then made it into a baot without him notcing, it was only when i tried to teach the rest of the class how to make boats that he noticed!.
All my other teachers are fine. If you dont work in lessons you have to go at lunch to subject tutorials and clinics. if you are really bad you get sapped - stands for student action plan or something like that, eg if you fail a test you get sapped for that subject etc

Reply 17

brimstone

7

My school mainly go for the 'kicking out' method.
You don't need to be there by law, so why should they keep you if you're a troublemaker?

Reply 18

purple-girl

17

My school hasn't changed too much now we're in 6th form. We didn't have too much discipline to start with, and it's still the same. I think we can get away with more now though, and instead of having to put your hand up when you answer it's as if it's expected of us to spontaneously come out with answers. And if the teacher tells us they're not there, we're allowed to do whatever we want in that lesson as long as we do the set work by the next lesson, whereas lower down the school we had to do the work, in the normal lesson and such, just with a cover teacher sitting with us. I think in general it's just a lot easier to get along with the teachers now we're older.

Reply 19

wizard710

16

pippa23

i honestly dont have a clue. it sort of happened as i tried to hide it from the other group and ran into my teacher, giving me the choice of iodine on the ceiling or the teacher! can you imagine the punishment if i'd chosen the teacher!?!?!

Quick thinking there. I congratulate you

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