is illegal for a teacher to prevent a child's education?

[Miranda27]

if a teacher takes pupils out of lesson time to do office work which members of the public are already being paid to do is it illegal as it is taking time out of the pupil's education?

[woofgang]

would neef more info than that

[cathfromsaron]

i would contact the school head to query the teacher's role ...

[ojread2]

No, of course it's not illegal

is this at secondary school?

When you say 'public' who do you actually mean?

[factor-fiction]

Sounds like valuable work experience to me. A significant number of pupils fritter away lesson time doing very little work, despite the efforts of teachers to cajole them into working.
How long were they out of lessons for? And which subjects did they miss?

[Nini74]

sorry - you'll need to explain what you mean - take them out of class to work in the school office? or for work experience somewhere? and what do you mean members of the public already being paid to do the work? I don't understand your question - you could be talking slave labour on one hand, or valuable work experience on the other......

[ojread2]

It happens in schools all over the UK - as factor says, it's called work experience
Preventing a child's education? Come on, so dramtic

I do wish people wouldn't join, post a question the not come back to reply

[Miranda27]

It's not work experience - we've already done 2 weeks of that. What i mean is there are office people trained in doing the office work yet a teacher has decided to take pupils out of lessons to do do some of this work instead because supposedly the office staff cant cope. We have a rota and when its your turn you have to leave your lesson to do this work.
I am not trying to be dramatic, I am just asking a question. I know it's not slave labour I was just wondering if I could prevent this as I would rather use the lesson time for my education. A friend of mine is has to do it on the last lesson of revision that we have before our exams which I think is unfair as she will lose out on valuable time which could improve her grade.

[bednobs]

by missing out onr lesson of revision?
What could you possibly learn in 1 hour that would mke a difference to your grade?

[woofgang]

aaah. "we have a rota" its becoming clearer

[ojread2]

It IS experience
It IS work experience
It happens in secondary schools ALL over the UK
It is NOT illegal
It is dramatic to ask if it is illegal
You will not improve your grade with an hour extra revision
Just use it as a learning experience, which is what it is. Take a few orders, learn a few things, if you're complaining now, you are going to hate life outside of school

[ojread2]

exactly woofgang, a year 11 who stamping feet me thinks