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Today, a teacher at my school got punched in the face by a 12 year old. The police cannot prosecute as all the pupils lied to support their friend and then laughed in the face of this teacher about it.

In a separate incident, Yr 11 boys were being taught PE by a female. They started throwing weights around so she picked up the phone to call for hep. They then ripped the phone out of the wall so she had to leave them in the fitness suite to ring for Senior Management. The boys were all sent home. An hour later, this member of staff (5 ft 1 and 7 stone wringing wet) was off to her next lesson and in the PE block on her own. The boys turned up, surrounded her and started punching and shoving her until she fell over. Thank GOD that the Deputy Head was doing his rounds at this time and interceded or I dread to think what might have happened.

Days like this make me hate my job and they are becoming more and more common at my place.
 
Bloody hell PDJ, they shouldn't let idiots like that anywhere near school.
Can't believe that kids and I'm sure there are some decent ones in your school won't stand up to the idiots (not nearly strong enough a word) who are spoiling it for both the pupils who aren't learning but want to and the teachers who are trying to do their job.
 
Pee, this is far from the first time you've posted about such ridiculous goings-on on here. Given your school's history, isn't it about time private prosecutions were brought by the teachers against the kids' parents, and isn't it also about time that your school invested in a couple of properly-trained security personnel? A couple of 17-stone bouncers, for want of a better word, might make them think twice before behaving in this sociopathic way.

I think a walk-out by all the teachers, until security is employed, might be the only way to teach this slapdash school a lesson. I hope all the kids are not just 'excluded' (how twee that sounds) but permanently expelled, and a blacklist of names sent to all local schools. If parents can't find schools for their violent little bastards, they might teach them some values at home. Or not - but who cares? At least the little pigs will be annoying the bigger pigs at home, and not assaulting their mentors.
 
They sound more like wild animals than children :(

My mum works at a school which has been described by OFSTED as being one of the worst in the country. The tales she tells would make your hair stand on end. It's a sad fact that I remember my first day at that school 22 years ago. We lived in fear of Mrs Cox who would smack naughty children across the palm of the hand with a ruler and one of my clearest memories is of a boy named Lee who couldn't sit still for more than 20 seconds so the teacher sticky taped him to his chair :lol: I'm certain that if such discipline were still around the school wouldn't be in the state it is in now. Instead if a teacher stuck a boy to a chair it'd make front page news.
 
Easy for me to say, but if I workd there I'd be on strike right now until the school management took steps to protect their employees properly. CCTV cameras in all rooms and corridors would be a start.
 
CCTV cameras are problematic in schools. Most corridors are covered but classrooms are a no-no.

I would love to have a couple of bouncers in school, provided they could lay hands on kids (that is a large part of our problem) and I love the idea of blacklisting kids so no other school accepts them, Jon. How workable thise possibilities are I just dunno.

I will be speaking to my local Union official about the possibility of strike action as it has got to the stage now where some staff fear for their safety.
 
CCTV cameras are problematic in schools. Most corridors are covered but classrooms are a no-no.
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I wondered if that might be the case. Has the school taken action against the pupil? The teacher's word might not be good enough for the police, but surely its good enough for the school management?
 
They have taken action, yes but not a permanent exclusion, merely a "fixed term exclusion" - in this case, 15 days.
 
As someone who was suspended and later expelled from school in Ireland, I must say I dont envy yer system. How is a poor young fellow like myself supposed to get himself thrown out in March to watch Cheltenham.
 
Originally posted by BrianH@Dec 8 2005, 01:18 AM
Ask Honest Tom to call them in...
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THEY would not be interested Brian unless they were given a free hand. A few premature burials, watched by the whole school, would soon bring the troublemakers into line.
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Originally posted by Gearoid@Dec 8 2005, 05:43 AM
As someone who was suspended and later expelled from school in Ireland, I must say I dont envy yer system. How is a poor young fellow like myself supposed to get himself thrown out in March to watch Cheltenham.
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On a serious note, Paul, it sounds to me like your school is not well run and the management don't really know how to tackle the problem of physical abuse. It seems to me they don't know how to interrogate pupils in such a way as to get to the truth and enable them to involve the police.

In my wife's school the police stand back in amazement at how the senior management team - mainly women - can turn would-be hard men into singing canaries within a few minutes of interrogation. Then again, they have recourse to methods and strategies the police aren't allowed to employ ;)

Then they go after the parents...
 
Originally posted by Maurice@Dec 8 2005, 10:52 AM
Then again, they have recourse to methods and strategies the police aren't allowed to employ
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Tis amazing what can be done in the Physics Labs.
 
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