A mum whose daughter was beaten up at school has said that social media has helped fuel violence in schools. Vicky Donald stated that in the aftermath of her daughter Kaylynn’s attack, the youngster got so fed up with seeing it on social media she stopped using her phone.
Mrs Donald went on to say how Kaylynn was attacked by two girls on a school bus on her way home from a high school in Fife last October. The incident left Kaylynn with bruises and scratches, but the long-term impact of the incident is still being felt.
She explained: “She feels let down by everybody; she feels completely let down by everybody.
“And it has taken a long time to try and bring her round from that; for a long, long time, she didn’t see the point in anything. “
Mrs Donald said the video kept appearing on social media channels, and this left her daughter in a “really dark place having to relive and see that all the time”.
Mrs Donald called for a tightening of the law to stop violent videos being shared but added that there is also a personal responsibility for the young people witnessing these incidents.
She said: “Them standing back, taking out their phones and videotaping it only adds to what the bully is doing, adds to the anguish of the victim – that needs to stop.
The issue of violent videos doing the rounds on social media has come to the fore as a new Scottish government survey (link here)
https://www.gov.scot/publications/behaviour-scottish-schools-research-report-2023/
Finds that behaviour standards are dropping
Quote from report
“However, there has been a perceived decline in pupil behaviour since 2016, with primary and secondary staff reporting decreases in most positive behaviours and increases in most of the low-level disruptive, seriously disruptive and other negative behaviours around the school. While head teachers’ experiences generally remained more positive, particularly in primary schools, teachers’ and support staff’s experiences of pupil behaviour in primary and secondary schools were more negative across a wide range of behaviours.”
So, we in Scotland have had a generation of children educated under the wing of the SNP. We have had to endure our kids being schooled in what we are told is a clappy, happy, progressive manner where tolerance and inclusion are at the forefront of education.
However, there always comes a time when we get a peek behind the curtain of what’s happening, and it’s not a surprise to us. Like most progressives, the SNP can only paper over the cracks for so long, with their answer being what it always is and to double down and do even more of the same.
Scottish Family Party Activist Niall Fraser stood at their annual conference last month and told the audience, including myself, that if they were in charge, a ban on mobiles in school would be one of the first rules to be bought in, and we would agree.
Social media clicks, views and likes are a scourge on modern society, with too many young and old people letting faux online credibility dictate what they think and say. We also agree with Mrs Donald when she says the other pupils need to take some responsibility in splitting the fight up and not cheering it on.
The Homeland Party would very quickly and easily overhaul the education system; more emphasis would go on the good old fashioned A, B & Cs and less on social issues whilst encouraging parents to take back the responsibility of influencing what their children think about social problems. We may end up with diversity of thought instead of pupils regurgitating their teacher’s thinly veiled political opinions.
A Homeland Party education system would see children learning the basics whilst being allowed to develop their personal intellect and physical selves, learn about the brilliance of Brits from yesteryear and not the guilt of perceived wrongdoing from our past while free from worrying about misgendering anyone.
We will start with a mobile phone ban, though.
