My Hero

I generally have a lot of sympathy for teachers who have to deal with disruptive pupils.

I have no doubt that the dedicated teacher would find this very hard to accept, to the point where they eventually reach breaking point.

However, breaking point to a normal person might consist of forcibly removing a pupil from the classroom.

Abuse of children is never acceptable, no matter what the provocation. Abuse of this nature should not be awarded hero status - but I would support a change to school policy, which makes expelling disruptive pupils easier.

That way, everyone gains but the troublemaker. The current system allows the troublemaker to impact negatively on their fellow classmates future prospects, while making teaching extremely difficult.

We should be trying to change educational policies, not giving "hero status" to someone who abuses a child, even in extenuating circumstances.

Noreen

El Siglo wrote: »

The problem with this country is that we've gone the complete opposite end of the spectrum in schools. Back in the day, yes it was completely acceptable to hammer the shite out of a child and then having the parents do the same. Now we're all loved up trying to explain away every problem "oh little Jimmy is being disruptive because he's got..." parents accept, little Jimmy is now the disruptive child with a 'real' problem, nothing gets addressed and little Jimmy continues to disrupt the class until he's sent to the library and out of everyone's hair.
I think the teacher probably shouldn't teach anymore it was over the top what he did and he nearly killed the chap. In saying that, the children that provoked such actions are little bastards and will probably grow up to be a burden on the state anyway. Teachers are people too, they're not rocks and stuff just doesn't roll off them.

You realize this happened in England?