From the BBC:
Earlier she told journalists that heads were also leading schools that were the last bastion of "old fashioned values and discipline", teaching children "rational and restrained ways of dealing with conflict".
Secondary school staff were increasingly having to become role models for pupils who were often more influenced by what they saw on television than their parents*, she said. In the area of London where she is head, four fifths of pupils have English as an additional language and different ways of settling disputes.
Dude WTF?
"Abdul! Abdul! How many times have I told you that a brief fisticuffs followed by a scuffle on the ground and then being dragged off to see the Head is how we settle things round here! You can't order an honour killing just because Aisha looked at Achmed from Year Three!"
"Leroy! Leroy! Put that knife away and let Simon take his turn on the slide!"
* That is a load of crap, people who are parents now grew up in the 1970s or 1980s when we watched just as much television as we do now, and the programmes were just as violent as they are now (plus in olden days, characters were allowed to smoke on-screen).
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Mark, where were you when they were handing out the rose-tinted spectacles? Of course things were better in the past; why do you think so many people want to live in a version of it?
plus in olden days, characters were allowed to smoke on-screen
And wasn't that a good thing?
B, back in the day, lots of people had to make do with black and white tinted spectacles, coloured ones weren't widely affordable until the late 1970s.
JH, I never saw the harm of people smoking on screen, it's only fourth or fifth hand smoke, after all.
There was a documentary on a few days ago about the famous bombing raid on The Falklands, with interviews with the pilots involved, and then flashbacks to 1982 using actors. To make it easier to tell interview and flashback apart, everybody was smoking in the flashback scenes.
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