Imagine if your working day included being sworn at with the kind of language which would make a docker blush. In addition to this you are variously threatened with what a certain pupil would do if they had a knife, a saw, or a chainsaw and then to crown it all the pupil seizes a chair and tries to hit you with it.
All this abuse from a seven-year-old and when one teacher tries to teach said child that actions have consequences, they don't get back up from senior staff, instead they decide that the fault must lie with the teacher. Senior staff who are rarely in school, don't actually teach, and have told the teacher to 'just deal with it'.
The world has gone mad.
Get the appropriate Teaching Union involved, they will back the teacher, or the governors, they have a duty of care to all staff.
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DeleteIn my day at school I would have been give six of the best for that. Little brat needs a clip around the ear. I feel parents have become too soft and kids are spoilt too much. Perhaps one I one of the other kids will beat him up outside, that is another thing used to happen when you Pi**ed the other kids off.
ReplyDeleteThanks, Bill. This particular child is trouble, he has been known to grab other children by the neck. Seven years old and on the road to a bad future already.
DeleteSome one will sort him out one day
DeleteI agree! The world has gone mad. I was just recently thinking about my Dad and how he used to tell us kids that if we ever got a spanking in school, we would get another one when we got home.
ReplyDeleteThank goodness the majority of the other children are not like that one, Henny Penny.
DeleteChildren are ruling the world, I'm afraid. Parents are not taking 'parenting' serious enough and afraid to even raise their voices to their misbehaving kids. I
ReplyDeleteHi Deb, Sorry, for some reason your comment got lodged in Spam.
DeleteCrazy, isn't it? I even know of one family who do not use the word "no" on their young ones, spoilt kids with no boundaries, it is very unfair on them.
my niece is a teacher and this exact thing happened to her. yep it was her 2nd year or teaching.
ReplyDeleteI hope it didn't put her off, Sol. This particular teacher has almost 20 years of experience and has never had discipline or control problems before, despite having had some very challenging little darlings in class.
DeleteSounds like a severely emotionally disturbed youngster who needs help but not in a classroom. When I was teaching such a child would have been placed in our ED wing and when he/she needed timeout, into a padded room.
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