Sellotape At School

[Matheous-2]

Can't believe the school incident hasn't been discussed here!

Does anyone feel the teacher should be sacked for doing this?
I can't help thinking it was a last resort to carry out this foul deed! I suppose she could have gone to the headmaster, but if think she should keep her job.
What do you think?

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2573069/Woman-teacher-suspended-TAPING-10-year-olds-mouths-giggling-class.html

[pixie373]

My guess is that cartoon was done by somebody who doesn't have school age children. As I've said before, if the previous generation had such great discipline and manners, how come they have all apparently completely failed to pass it on?

[Sqad]

sunny_dave.....point well made.

[maggiebee]

If I had gone home and told my parents I'd got the belt, I would have got a clout around the ear to reinforce the punishment.

[ummmm]

Is that something to be proud of?

[gness]

Yes it does....perfectly.... and is one of the reasons many of us got out early......
Being followed along a corridor by an indulgent mother and her seven year old who is shouting.....She's the one who told me off...get her mum....go on hit her..... just wouldn't have happened when I started.
Or in the unlikely event that it did.....the mother wouldn't have given the member of staff a mouthful of abuse to the delight of her son....
Mind you.....he's now in prison for racial abuse and violence so........

[gness]

Pixie...I don't know the answer to your question....but I assure you....in my thirty years the attitude of parents towards education and those providing it changed drastically...and for the worse.

[ummmm]

And is that what the majority of parents are like?

The ones that were belted at home tended to be the ones who were naughty at school.

[gness]

If that's for me, Ummmm....more and more.....yes.
Classes changed from the odd very naughty and undisciplined child to umpteen in a class......imagine the effect on the children longing to learn.

[sherrardk]

One parent demanded that the head teacher should sack me for being Welsh.

[Svejk]

pixie373

///No. It doesn't.///

Oh yes it does.

[Svejk]

Did they know you were Welsh when you started, Sher?

[EcclesCake]

The parent had a point Sherrard ;-)

[pixie373]

It doesn't, svejk. I can't imagine any of the parents i know tolerating their child misbehaving or being rude to the teacher. I'm sure there are the odd exceptions, but i expect there always have been.

[Sqad]

Pixie

\\\\\ I can't imagine any of the parents i know tolerating their child misbehaving or being rude to the teacher.\\\\

If this was the case:

1) What would the parents do?
2) What response would you find acceptable from the teacher?

[ummmm]

If my kids were rude, and they have been, the school would either a) write to me or b) phone me. I would be expected to deal with it.

I would 'never' back up my kids over a teacher.

My kids know that they will be dealt with when they get home....and I don't need to belt them for them to be afraid of the consequences.

[gness]

Pixie.....how I wish I could take you into my school during my last years there......It really was not the odd exception...

The odd exception is easy to deal with.....a dozen or so in a class isn't.

Now I grant you I was working in a "rough" area but good behaviour should be the norm wherever...

[RATTER15]

If ever my teacher phoned my parents I knew I was in big trouble when I got home. My mother never laid a finger on me but she sat be down and gave me a talking to that I would never forget, if you feel you need to hit children to get the point across you clearly should never have children.

[Sqad]

ummmm.....well that IS the correct answer.

But would you expect the teacher to "put up" with the rudeness in the class, whilst the teacher wrote to you and or phoned you?
Wouldn't you want her/or him to deal with it on the spot?

[ummmm]

My mum was exactly the same, Ratter, the feeling that you'd let them down was way worse than a slap.