No More Whistleblowers...

[agchristie]

...at this school! What next? Teachers wont be able to raise their voice to schoolkids?

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3603100/Now-school-bans-WHISTLES-end-playtime-case-aggressive-loud-noises-scare-children.html

[jourdain2]

Sigh! Sort of attitude which drove me out of teaching after 30 yrs.

Bright spot is that I am thoroughly enjoying being a volunteer reading assistant - no constraints, quoted Chaucer's Prologue (beginning bit) in medieval English at my 'failures' and they lapped it up last Tues.. They all know their alphabet now, which they didn't when I started 3 weeks ago. Discovered they can't tell the time so passed that one on to the Maths. Dept. These kids are nearly, if not already, 12!

Going to throw onomatopoeia at them on Tues. - they are responding fantastically well and started demanding that I should do a full day -- no, no!

Would hate to be back under the current constraints. I remember a big issue when a 15-yr-old (Pakistani) boy complained because a lady member of staff had wagged a finger in his face. The Head appeared in the Staffroom and officially told us that he would not support a member off who invaded a child's space in such a way! What do you do? the kid had told her to 'f'-off!

Overprotection gone mad, what sort of person are we breeding?

[jno]

school children, the bell ends

so true...

[vulcan42]

This school may have a point. It might explain why footballers argue with the referees whenever he blows his whistle, they think he's being aggressive. :o)

[Jackdaw33]

If you mean what I think you mean, jno, then LOL.

[Togo]

Morning Jackdaw. See Sun 19:45 & 21:38

[tttom_tomagain]

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Isn't that called bullying ?


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Shouting or beating, all the same isn't it ?


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[tttom_tomagain]

re. "

Would hate to be back under the current constraints. I remember a big issue when a 15-yr-old (Pakistani) boy complained because a lady member of staff had wagged a finger in his face. The Head appeared in the Staffroom and officially told us that he would not support a member off who invaded a child's space in such a way! What do you do? the kid had told her to 'f'-off!
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Usually if one exhibits finger wagging in the face aggressive behaviour there is a risk of being told to *** off. In the real world, anyway.

Simple.

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[tttom_tomagain]

. . . . . and why the unnecessary reference to someone's ethnicity ?

Hmmmmm......

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[Bazile]

//...At the primary school where I have worked for more than 26 years, the blowing of the whistle to signal the end of playtime has now been banned.
'It's thought to be too aggressive and some children may be afraid of the noise//

What a load of cobblers .

Walk pass any school playground at break time - what do you hear ?

Yes of course - you hear children shouting , screaming etc .

So , the blowing of a whistle is going to scare children ?

What nonsense .

[stuey]

Following the "logic" of the person who dreamed this up, all fire alarms should be banned from schools.

[dannyk13]

Do the kids at this school play football, if so how does the ref manage without a whistle?

[Mamyalynne]

http://www.heart.co.uk/fourcounties/news/local/mk-school-denies-whistle-ban/#iKJe5plvTx2JdV1S.97

[Old_Geezer]

If so then one wonders what triggered the Daily Mail to think it had.

[Old_Geezer]

Ms Cunningham must either have been telling tall tales or she would disagree with the claim.

[Mamyalynne]

One would have to ask Pauline Cunningham.

[Svejk]

It's a rather strange thing for the Teaching Assistant to make up.

[shoota]

Perhaps they havn't been 'banned', just told not to use them...