I taught year 6 up until a couple of years ago, then the head teacher at my school had the usual shift around of staff to keep us all from going insane and shooting up a supermarket. I ended up with year 3 (who make way worse slaves than year 6) and to be honest I'm glad I was moved. Now, watching the year 6 children from afar leads me to the conclusion that they are all really shitty people. What's more - it's all our fault. The year 6 kids at my school are, for the most part, quite nice and can actually access all of the nice parts of the emotional spectrum that make a decent human being decent. They show compassion and make for good hosts whenever there's another pointless learning walk. They see when a teacher is doing something for them and they say thanks...until they turn on you. Today, for example, the kids have began their swimming block at the local pool. It's chaos at the best of times but the year 6 kids are usually pretty good and set a good example...