Kid attacks teacher...........teacher is suspended!!!

[ianess]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/edinburgh_ and_east/6043624.stm

Are the lunatics now in total control of the asylum?

[WendyS]

I'm afraid they have been for quite a long time. Every day I open my newspaper and read something which confirms that things are only getting worse. But in a way, we're all to blame because if we all got off our fat backsides and wrote, telephone and e-mailed the relevant authorities to complain every time something like this happened they'd be innundated and perhaps get the message that they;ve offended public opinion.

But will we?

[admarlow]

what a joke!!!!!!!!

[jake-the-peg]

I think the key to this might have been in the daily records report:

...
But when the furious 49-year-old teacher complained about the lack of action, they ordered him to go home
...

So reading between the lines - violent confrontation - teacher looses the plot with his head master - heated words are exchanged and he is suspended.

Bad move on behalf of the school not to suspend the student too but it sounds as if the press are building another a "disgusted of Tumbridge Wells" story because (quite rightly) nobody is talking to them.

Wouldn't surprise me either to find the Union is feeding the press on this.

And no the lunatics are actually in control of the media

[dyli795]

"The lunatics have taken over the asylum" . . . . . It's a well worn saying that easily trips off the tongue isn't it? But by golly it's more true with every passing day! (it has only this moment occured to me , I mentioned the term golly, but as I didn't apply enough forethaught before hand , I wont personaly edit that bit.) I feel a bit better already!
Yes, we have got to air our views, at any, and every given opportunity; Answerbank may be one of them.
I made mention a few days ago re. H.M.Prisoners having their council tax taken care of while soldiers abroad laying their lives on the line for the free world and us back home didn't get the same. Two days later, the papers and T.V. News was full of how they are now to be given tax breaks etc., I know I don't claim to of influenced government policy but if enough non-lunatics make their views known then it can't be ignored. And I did allow myself a brief moment of satisfaction at the coincidence just the same!
( I hope it doesn't make me a lunatic! )

[Whickerman]

link stopped working btw

[jake-the-peg]

Well it certainly seems true if you take what you see on the news or read in papers at face value!

But then you'd have to be a lunatic to do that wouldn't you?

Bring back straight bananas

[ianess]

link working fine Whickerman.

[buildersmate]

Under yet another aspect of PC, the term lunatic is disallowed and must be replaced by 'person with mental health disabilities', likewise asylums have been replaced by care in the community, so the correct terminology is actually 'Are the persons with mental health disabilities now in total control of care in the community'. Either way, the answer is yes.

[jno]

it's political correctness gone mentally unstable!

[littleoldme]

I agree that this is just the kind of thing to get the Daily Mail Brigade (well, they keep talking about the PC Brigade, so why not?) up in arms, blustering into their Glenfiddich and shaking their pension books in fury. What they should be doing, of course, is pausing to ask - why was the teacher suspended? Maybe there's no good reason and their indignation is justified on this occasion. Or maybe, just maybe, there's more to it that that. We don't know the full story and until we do, maybe the demands for a return to forced chimney-sweeping for all boys of school age should be put on hold.