Sacked Teacher

[fbg40]

Hi
Any thoughts on the teacher that was sacked for "restraining" a 16 year old youth who had thrown a milk shake into the teacher's face and was threatening(allegedly) to throw a chair as well ? The boy made no complaint nor did his parents yet the Headmaster and Governors decided to sack him as they thought he went too far !! Teachers have no chance these days. If I had done this when I was 16 (a very long time ago !!) I would have had the cane and probably been expelled.
FBG40

[Mick-Talbot]

You haven't read it all have you , baz?


I can not help thinking that this teachers card was already marked though.

[ludwig]

It's difficult to make a judgement having not seen the footage of the incident.

It seems to have been a unanimous decision, and none of his colleagues backed him up, so he couldn't have been very popular.

// If I had done this when I was 16 (a very long time ago !!) I would have had the cane and probably been expelled. //

^Me too fbg. No doubt about it.

[Mick-Talbot]

I remember the maths teacher throwing a blackboard eraser at a pupil, he hit him, hurt him, made him cry


Then gave him a detention.............ah, the good old days.

[Octavius]

Me too actually, and to think it's our generation making these kids unruly and sending them to school for the teachers to deal with.

[ludwig]

Summary corporal punishment was often dished out willy nilly. I was once woken up in a french lesson by being whacked around the head by the teacher. A bit harsh, considering it was his fault really for being so bl00dy boring in the first place.

(Cue pythonesque escalation of harsh schooling..e,g that's nothing..our teacher use to kill us, revive us and kill us again for not doing homework)

[Thatcherite]

Looxury! My teacher used a Cat o nine tails, 24 lashes for fidgetting never did me any harm!

[anotheoldgit]

The following was from an Ofsted report on Bemrose school.

/// Well above average numbers are entitled to free school meals. Most students are from minority ethnic groups. ///

/// More than half the students join the school other than at the normal times, many more than do so nationally. Some students came from abroad and others are from different parts of the city. ///

/// A high number of students have come to the school from abroad and it has developed effective systems for managing over 30 different home languages. ///

The school minimises the disruption to the lives and schooling of recently arrived students to ensure they settle quickly. Notwithstanding this, some students said they did not feel safe. Students said when bullying or racism occurs they are confident it is dealt with swiftly and they had someone to talk to. They value the ‘safe’ place which is available for any who would rather not be out at break time. The school has high expectations of behaviour. In the majority of lessons observed students behaved well, but there were occasional instances when the school’s high standards were not met, for example in the canteen queue there was some pushing ///

/// The discourteous and unruly behaviour of small groups of mostly boys
sometimes went unchallenged by staff. ///

Not quite the average school it seems.

[bazwillrun]

@Mick talbot

I read it from top to bottom, which parts have you not read, the bit where he threw a chair around, or what give me a clue

"After he let the teenager go, the pupil did pick up a chair and threw it, although not at Mr Cox"

Excessive force my rse, this oik deserved what he got and more yet the teacher gets sacked because of a bunch of leftie handwringers all too scared of their own shadows.

School discipline the leftie handwringers way...., give the kids the upper hand, got to make them feel empowered and loved......that will work well

[Mosaic]

Good detailed reading AOG - and it is noticeable that the canteen, described by Ofsted as a source of disruptive behaviour, was where this incident happened.

[Octavius]

I don't know, Grange Hill was very similar. Someone even threw a sausage in their canteen, with the fork still in it. And Zammo was doing drugs in the school plantroom.

[ummmm]

Do we know if this teacher had any previous warnings?

[Mick-Talbot]

'Mr Cox was observed on CCTV pushing the pupil down into the chair repeatedly with excessive force - enough force to move a large dining room table and chairs several feet.'



That ^ bit, baz........................?

[bazwillrun]

Means nothing, how heavy was the table ? large", how large is large ?

the oik wasnt hurt so it doesnt seem to have been that excessive or with that much force

so whats your problem ?