kids and sch

today's straits times mentioned the lack of discipline in british schools. this reminded me of the super long and torturous week i endured as a relief teacher in a primary sch 4 yrs ago.
i was in charge of a pr5 em3 class for a wk. i wanted to walk out within the first 5 minutes. i never expected that a bunch of 11yr olds can be soooo rowdy, talkative and uncontrollable. ok la, i dunno how to control kids in the first place. but they are really quite the ultimate. there was hardly a moment's peace, except for when they had a test. even then, every minute there was some kid trying to cheat. i caught a few peeking at their textbks!! there were the usual troublemakers, followers, "guai" ones and those who simply can't be bothered about everything. so much effort was spent in dealing with the deserved to be slapped in the face troublemakers that it's disgusting. the guai ones looked irritated that they can't have a proper lesson.

maybe we should stream them according to their level of guai-ness. yes this is controversial and may backfire blah blah, but can consider? =)

(anyway i'll NEVER EVER be a teacher! esp in pr sch)