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Did this teacher deserve the sack?
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Being hit by either spitballs blown through hollow biro tubes is an occupational hazard for any teacher who turns his or her back on the class. With the better classes it's only paper aeroplanes or screwed up balls of paper that hit you so that's no too bad.
Rightly or wrongly teachers should avoid grabbing pupils. We've probably all done it but it really winds some pupils up and they will often lash out or accuse you of assault. It's very tempting when they blatantly ignore an instruction and try to walk away from you but the best thing to do is to let them go.
In this case here I wonder why the teacher held him for so long and didn't send another student to get another teacher. to help I think the teacher probably just 'lost it' as pupils say and maybe many of us would have done the same.
Rightly or wrongly teachers should avoid grabbing pupils. We've probably all done it but it really winds some pupils up and they will often lash out or accuse you of assault. It's very tempting when they blatantly ignore an instruction and try to walk away from you but the best thing to do is to let them go.
In this case here I wonder why the teacher held him for so long and didn't send another student to get another teacher. to help I think the teacher probably just 'lost it' as pupils say and maybe many of us would have done the same.
When I was at school in the early eighties, a teacher "lost it" and punched a boy hard. Afterwards the teacher came into my form to tell his head of department and he looked absolutely sick with worry.
The boy was a well-known troublemaker but, to his eternal credit, he admitted that he'd probably pushed things too far and that was the end of it!
Teachers these days are sometimes placed in impossible situations. Kids have all of the rights but none of the responsibilities, and the support network just isn't there for all teachers to avoid all impossible situations at all times. At times when it does break down, you'd hope that your senior management would support you, but many don't have the backbone; as in this case:
Punishment for assaulting a teacher: 4 day suspension
Punishment for mildly reacting to assault: dismissal, end of career
It seems inequitable.
The boy was a well-known troublemaker but, to his eternal credit, he admitted that he'd probably pushed things too far and that was the end of it!
Teachers these days are sometimes placed in impossible situations. Kids have all of the rights but none of the responsibilities, and the support network just isn't there for all teachers to avoid all impossible situations at all times. At times when it does break down, you'd hope that your senior management would support you, but many don't have the backbone; as in this case:
Punishment for assaulting a teacher: 4 day suspension
Punishment for mildly reacting to assault: dismissal, end of career
It seems inequitable.
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