Don’t think there will be much of a contest this week. The winner is; Mary Bousted, General Secretary, Association of Teachers and Lecturers.
Pupils’ behaviour in school has a huge impact on their learning, that of other pupils and on their teachers.
Well, I’ll go to our house! Does it really?
A quick scan of the article gives a good view of one of the reasons that many of our schools are in such a mess.
Boadicea's Chariot 
Who would ever have believed it?
As you say, the rest of the article explains a lot about what is going wrong in the schools.
There is an element in our society who latch on to every daft law and edict from politicos and do gooders and use it to their advantage. A quick law is a bad law and there are many examples where legislation laid down in a knee jerk reaction to some tragedy or other results in confusion and bad effect.
Many teachers today cannot enforce any sort of control over rowdy pupils because they fear that they will not be backed up by authorities who are in thrall to the anti teacher brigade ie, parents of yobs who know how to milk the system and sharp lawyers who know a good thing when they see one.
As of today in this country, if you shout at your spouse the courts will regard that as domestic violence with all that it entails. This is a judgement handed down by the new supreme court. How long before this is cited by a sharp kid who says to it’s parents, ‘Teacher shouted at me today, that’s violence that is,’ and before you know it some hapless teacher will be hauled before the courts and hung out to dry.
The quote is the wrong way round. It should be along the lines of “A teacher’s control of a pupil’s behaviour etc….”