Who'd Be A Teacher These Days?

[ToraToraTora]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-27193638
Knife weilding savages running around. What's it comming to?

[youngmafbog]

What happened to metal detectors in schools?

Where is the tough on crime?

Where is the knife legislation we were promised?

Or does it affect the little darlings 'ooman rights ?

He will be out in 5 years I am sure to continue his life of crime.

[anneasquith]

yes, not a policeman,fireman.paramedic or any other dangerous profession. dreadful.

[sp1814]

Bloody horrific.

[Daffy6543]

One of my sisters in law is a teacher at a high school, I once told her I would not do her job for £1m a year.

[viv38]

Wasn't a male teacher stabbed to death some years ago when he tried to break up a fight between pupils?

[Daffy6543]

Viv, are you thinking of Philip Lawrence?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Philip_Lawrence

[sherrardk]

My husband was stabbed oh his thigh by a kid with a screwdriver - the kid was in the infants.

[viv38]

Yes, that's the one Daffy, I couldn't think of the poor man's name.

[ToraToraTora]

.....and I don't suppose, viv, you'd be surprised to know, the pond life that did it is out and free.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2027427/Philip-Lawrence-killer-Learco-Chindamo-tells-time-murdered-headteacher.html

[Ric.ror]

I know everyone is going to disagree with me but I cannot help being bewildered by this
I mean a 15 year old
How on earth can this happen

[youngmafbog]

I share your bewilderment.

Society is failing those that do their best to bring the next generation up to speed.

This is the direct result of wishy washy right-on liberalism. The chattering classes in their Islington coffee shops have a lot to answer for as does Blair with is HRA.

[jim360]

This sort of attack is relatively rare these days, though. The last case anyone remembers is in the mid 90's. I don't see how you can link such an isolated incident to liberalism. Tragic case, not too far away from my old home. But a product of liberalism? Hardly. If this were the tenth such attack in the last year, down slightly after a peak during the 2000s, you would have a case. But it's not so you don't.

[jno]

lol, the Islington coffee shops are to blame for everything!

[jno]

can't think why the rabid right are so quick to forget, but serious crime is falling quite sharply

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-27119689

[Zeuhl]

are the 'chattering classes' OK as long as they don't frequent the coffee shops in Islington?

[sherrardk]

I think a lot if people would be shocked by how 'rough' even some 'good' schools are. For the last two or three years of my job in teaching I was increasingly aware of how threatening some of the students were - I was shoved (when pregnant), verbally absurd, spat at, followed home by car by an older student, had to rescue a female student from her knife wielding (non-student) boyfriend, etc, etc.

[Zeuhl]

If Ymb is to be believed then the drop in violent crime is due to years of liberalism and 'right on' thinking

Now that makes more sense.

[jno]

best they stay there, Zeuhl, you don't want to meet a mob of lefties hyped up on espresso in a darkened street.

[Zeuhl]

^ LOL

The Krays, The Sopranos, The Cappuchinos ....

[anotheoldgit]

How horrfic this kind of thing never happened in my day.