• Question: what interested you in childrens behaviour problems?

    Asked by marr to Alice JB on 10 Jun 2011. This question was also asked by dyble.
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      Alice Jones Bartoli answered on 10 Jun 2011:

      My nan asked me this the other day, and we tried to work it out.

      I started working in special schools for children with behavioural problems when I did work experience when i was about 16. The kids I worked with were some of the most interesting and fun people I’d ever met, and I found it amazing that there were children whose behaviour was so troublesome that they couldn’t be in a regular classroom – especially when most of them could be so lovely and bright.

      Later on, I worked with young offenders in a prison-setting, and it made me sad to think that some of the boys in the young offenders’ institute would have come from the sort of schools that I’d worked in before. I think that it’s absolutely the most important thing to try to stop problem behaviour before it gets so bad that children end up in the prison system, or in some other really big trouble. It is possible to help a lot of children change the rest of their lives, and that’s what interests me the most.

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