Teacher Peter Harvey

[johnny.5]

would you want him teaching your children ?

[sara3]

no! as I said on the other thread, my 13 yr old son can be a pain in the @rse at school (not to this extent!), but if a teacher smashed his head in with a dumbbell, I wouldn't call that acceptable.

[4getmenot]

he shouldnt have been let back after his breakdown

[caslass]

Knowing what he had done, his class would be the best behaved in the school.

[NoMercy]

No.. I wouldn't want him teaching my children. Nor would I want my child tormenting a teacher to that extent. There was blame on both sides.

[mightyWBA]

When I were a lad it was the blackboard rubber that came flying towards you if you played up,apart from the Metalwork teacher who chucked a rubber mallet.
He shouldn't have hit the brat with a dumbbell,a good smack would have sufficed.

I blame the parent(s) for raising the pupil that made him crack.
Teachers have had the right of proper discipline taken away,no wonder some kids run riot.
If they hadn't been playing him up,he wouldn't have cracked.

[in a mo]

The children wound the teacher and filmed it on mobile phones ,this is your lovley little darlings ,take a look at youselves ,or the next time someone will die.

[kestrelg]

I attended a well respected Grammar school between 1949 and 1955 and an almost identical incident happened in my class, in this case the teacher used his fists rather than dumbells. The teacher was goaded to an unbelievable extent by the class bullies and he finally "lost it" .
I have been ashamed all my life that I saw that and did nothing, but had I been strong enough to try to stop the taunting the thugs would have had me.
Yes I would let him teach my family