Ipswich teachers on strike after ‘scissors thrown at them’
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cvgq98edegxo
Posted by pajamakitten
Ipswich teachers on strike after ‘scissors thrown at them’
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cvgq98edegxo
Posted by pajamakitten
11 Comments
Sounds just like the academy I did a PGCE placement at. School uniform and talking in the corridor were policed heavily, yet you had kids (junior school, so 7-11 years old) throwing chairs and threatening violence against staff. The school was outstanding according to OFSTED though, all because of meticulous recordkeeping and because pupil attainment was good. That is all leadership cared about, so violent pupils were never punished because it would reflect badly on the school’s reputation.
It’s insane that teachers just accept this amount of abuse and violence, and that they and the unions have allowed it to become the normal. I can’t imagine agreeing to work in an office where I and my colleagues would be attacked on a regular basis and just putting up with that as something that happens.
On an unrelated note, it feels incredibly patronising how the BBC now feels the need to stick a completely unnecessary picture every few few lines in their articles in case people get bored. Makes it so much harder to actually read.
Why are these incredibly disruptive children allowed to destroy the education of the other 90%, as well as make the teachers jobs unbearable?
Send them home for 2 weeks immediately after any violent incident. 3 strikes and you’re excluded permanently. Make the parents accountable.
Another school where all they care about is school uniform. What a bunch of clowns that run the place.
Good. It’s like the Health and Safety at Work Act doesn’t exist for teachers (and hospital workers) if people were being attacked in an office or factory there’d be uproar.
>He says he disagrees with the strike, finding it unfair that teachers are allowed to walk out while he would be fined if he took his children out of school.
That is a perfectly valid point.
Parents are obliged to make sure their children attend school, and that is how it should be. But if the authorities are forcing children to attend a school, they are taking on the absolute responsibility for ensuring the school is safe and provides a proper education. If the school is unsafe for teachers, it is probably going to also be unsafe for the students (in particular the majority who are there to learn).
If the school can’t sort it out, the LA should step in. And if the LA can’t sort it out, the government should step in. And that should be done quickly. If parents can get fined for taking their children out for a few days, then the school should face serious repercussions if they allow disorderly or violent students to turn amok for even a short time. There is no way this should be allowed continue for months or years.
I do not blame them. I actually went to Westbourne Academy just a little longer than a decade ago now, and I have memories of the students at the time during my time there actually bullying a teacher enough to just fully quit her job.
Kids misbehave and the response is to give them a day off?
Bad times. Some dickhead once stuck needles in a ball of blu-tack and threw it across the room, lodging in my temple
I’m not a teacher so very happy to be told I’m an idiot, but threatening people with weapons is a criminal offence. Forget detention and exclusion, is there any reason the police can’t be called? A stern talking-to by a uniformed officer probably wouldn’t do any harm…
I suggest they all bring wrenches to inset days. If you can dodge a wrench..