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?
In the current climate of no-one can punish my child, what sanctions are considered acceptable? I've encountered parents who would not allow their child to be disciplined, no lines, detentions, even at break etc etc and complaints if a voice was raised above what the brat thought acceptable. Some parents need to get into schools and see what disruption...
Foul deed ? I attended this school in the 1960's. It was called Williton Secondary Modern School back then and we had the cane if our behaviour was bad enough ! So a little bit of sellotape doesn't sound so bad to me, although its probably not the best way to maintain discipline.
Do you have grandchildren in school? Would you be happy for them to come home and say that they had their mouths sellotaped? I don't care how stressed she was, pretty sure this is classed as assault.
I never had the cane but I was slapped a few times however even when the cane was acceptable sellotaping mouths wouldn't have been. I think she flipped but I still find the parents going to the paper distasteful.
In my old school in the 1950's some teachers used to make you stand on your desk with your mouth taped shut if you spoke in class without putting your hand up to ask permission to speak first. Then they pointed out the old hospital over the fields, that we all knew was the local lunatic asylum, and said speaking without permission was a sign of mental illness and that was where you would be sent.
They also had their own way of dealing with what we now call 'attention deficit disorder' you were made to sit in the front row where the teacher could hit you round the head with a 5ft long wooden blackboard ruler as soon as your attention wandered.
If she had a meltdown then she is clearly unsuited to teaching. I certainly wouldn't be saying 'hey, but we all have our moments'. Although I think blabbing to the press was inappropriate.