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Teachers that bully kids

Offy

Im posting here rather than in the Education section because Ive noticed that this subject tends to get locked rather than discussed in the Education section.
Think back to your school days, do you remember any teachers that used to bully their students? I remember been canned in primary school after it was banned, been punched by teachers in secondary school and on one occasion I had my head slapped of a wall for leaning against a rad on a cold wet winters day. A generation later one of my children reports been hit by his headmaster (the same headmaster taught me and he is heavy handed) and a younger child reports been singled out and ridiculed because she has problems with spelling. I failed my leaving cert because I have trouble with languages yet I have two degrees in engineering so whats the problem with bad spellings? When they grow up they can use a spell checker!
Why do some teachers think it is acceptable to bully children and what can parents do to stop this practice? All comments and ideas are welcomed even if they are yore ma! Suggestions anyone?

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themadchef

Bobblehead Panda wrote: »

Contact the board again or find out what the next step is. They can't ignore you. This is a serious issue.

+1

The department wont ignore you.

Any witness? Anyone to back her up?

Local-womanizer

My mum got a slap of a teacher one day at school,her mother went in that day and told that teacher if "she ever lay a finger on her daughter again she would beat her,the only one allowed to hit my daughter is me"

Seemed to work pretty well.

In todays world,a complaint to the college about that teacher and if they refuse to take it seriously the Gardai would be interested to hear about it I would assume,after all assault is assault no matter where it happens.

To hit another persons child baffles me,no teacher would even think about doing it in front of the parents.

doolox

Its assault and so should be reported to the Guards.
Don't let them away with it.
It wasn't my parents who thought me fear and self-loathing.
It wasn't the schoolyard bullies, many of whom I found out in later life had bullying parents.
It was some of the teachers.

I regret now that I didn't follow up on reporting and getting some action taken to stop the violence and bullying.

Now, just like the zero-tolerence policy to clerical child abuse, a similar policy should be in place for violence directed at children.

ShamoBuc

winston82 wrote: »

FYP

personal experience?

Dudess

And I have heard of teachers giving kids grief because they have difficulty with certain subjects, might even be dyslexic - it's upsetting to think an adult assuming parental responsibility would behave like that.

:mad:

Latchy

hondasam wrote: »

I wish people would stop pointing out punctuation and spelling here in AH. It is not an exam.

The people who use spell checker to cover their own little errors here and there are the worst culprits .Some of them will be teachers to .:cool:

Offy

themadchef wrote: »

+1

The department wont ignore you.

Any witness? Anyone to back her up?

Only other children Im afraid.

ShamoBuc

EverEvolving wrote: »

Christian Brothers/Nuns - they should really hook up and not be so damn wound up!!

I had the very same conversation with a work colleague last week, 4 or 5 times a year - a shag weekend!

Toto Wolfcastle

Offy wrote: »

Only other children Im afraid.

Witnesses are witnesses. This issue needs to be investigated. If you are ignored try again until someone listens.

ShamoBuc

Solnskaya wrote: »

No, I am quiet and studious and hardworking, but asking the school nicely to leave my nice, sensitive son alone did not work, so I decided to take the opposite tack(I am nice, studious,hardworking, very large and gnarly). This simply resulted in the teacher taking the schnide comments route rather than the outright bullying. I might have to blast him with bullets of sh1te to get this sorted. I am sure I am not half the role model you yourself are, obviously.

agreed;)

born2bwild

hondasam wrote: »

I have no idea what point you are making.

None, really, at first. I changed durection mid-stream of consciousness and decided to answer the OP's point with an observation about some teachers being bullies first; teachers second.

SuperInfinity

Once one of my teachers called me a "twit" because I forgot something for school when I was about 10. It was the hateful and cold way she said it that really stuck with me. What a bitch. And there was no reason for it at all, it was ridiculous.

Wibbs

Yea one. Well more than one, but this one got his comeuppance, beaten to a pathetic mess, with a side order of early bravado, in front of the school, by a 16 year old guy he had had previously bullied so much he had transferred from said school. And that's how you deal with bully's I reckon.

themadchef

Offy wrote: »

Only other children Im afraid.

They witnessed it nonetheless. Prosecute the spineless fúcker.

winston82

ShamoBuc wrote: »

personal experience?

yes, you looking for tips?

cup the balls and don't slurp...

hondasam

Latchy wrote: »

The people who use spell checker to cover their own little errors here and there are the worst culprits .Some of them will be teachers to .:cool:

It's getting very annoying. There is different types of bullying and this could be seen as one of them.

padraig91

I remember back when i was in secondary school, in french class one of the lads on the first day was told to sit down the back of the class and anytime he tried to ask a question the teacher would shout at him "You dont exist in this class" now the lad was a bit of a messer and i can only assume that this spread around the teachers on the first week of school and the teacher just took against him before she even saw him.

hondasam

born2bwild wrote: »

None, really, at first. I changed durection mid-stream of consciousness and decided to answer the OP's point with an observation about some teachers being bullies first; teachers second.

ShamoBuc

winston82 wrote: »

yes, you looking for tips?

cup the balls and don't slurp...

surely sound effects heighten the sensation?

I'm inexperienced - fortunately;)

littlemis

In my opinion principals will protect their staff at all costs.It is the child who is wrong,and your child will never get an apology.
There is a saying those who cant do TEACH.

Dudess

Yeah, I'd be very much a supporter of teachers - hate all the abuse they get about the holidays and short classroom hours etc - but it would take an AWFUL lot for a teacher to get fired/disciplined.

Wibbs wrote: »

this one got his comeuppance, beaten to a pathetic mess, with a side order of early bravado, in front of the school, by a 16 year old guy he had had previously bullied so much he had transferred from said school. And that's how you deal with bully's I reckon.

Sometimes, as a last resort, yep - only language some ****ers (young and grown-up) understand.

Latchy

hondasam wrote: »

It's getting very annoying. There is different types of bullying and this could be seen as one of them.

I've always thought so to and cyber bullys are the lowest with their cheap jibes . Kudos to the people who dont bully to easy and stand up to the teachers to .

Micky Dolenz

Grammar nazis not welcome

hondasam

Latchy wrote: »

I've always thought so to and cyber bullys are the lowest with their cheap jibes . Kudos to the people who dont bully to easy and stand up to the teachers to .

I'm sure some people check everything before the post to make sure it is ok. It is the internet and sometimes you post fast and mistakes happen.

fair play to parents and children who stand up to Teachers.

Aoifey!

When I was in 5th class one of my friends who would have been considered one of the slower children in the class got 50% in a test. I still remember the teacher says "That mark would be good for you, shame you must have cheated" and then made comments like this for a while.

Her mother went in and rared up on her, told she would never accuse her daughter of this again or there'd be hell. We had the same teacher the next year and she treated my friend better than she treated anyone else (unfortunately she started picking on me but nothing so obvious). This was only in 2003 or so.

7sr2z3fely84g5

Sometimes i wondered how some of these teachs got away with it,student eventually leaves school,teach not think student could hold a grudge and beat the living shít out of the teach?.

starviewadams

Used to have an Irish teacher who would pick on me for anything,if anyone else in the class didn't know what they were supposed to have learned then he let them off but when it was me I'd always get early morning and evening detention.If he saw me with my shirt untucked I'd get the detention and nobody else would.He'd only make me do penalty sheets instead when I was supposed to have PE.When he became my year head it was even worse,he knew my dad was strict with me so he'd always ring him up instead of my mam if I was ever late,and the next day he'd ask me with a smile if my dad had had a ''chat'' with me.

Was such a cúnt,don't know why he had it in for me so much,I was never a troublemaker in school!

EverEvolving

Wibbs wrote: »

Yea one. Well more than one, but this one got his comeuppance, beaten to a pathetic mess, with a side order of early bravado, in front of the school, by a 16 year old guy he had had previously bullied so much he had transferred from said school. And that's how you deal with bully's I reckon.

Really? I'm etremely surprised at this response from you, you're usually quite rational and composed, and do not resort to fighting fire with fire. In this situation, the bullied guy got some satisfaction from revenge but it does not solve the problem.

In all likeliness, the teacher that got his arse kicked would have been so humilated that his next move would be to take out his anger on the next pupil he could get away with it with.

Reporting bullies and following through with them is the only way to get any satisfaction, especialy through professional channels. Throw one punch and you have lost the upper hand.

Offy

Leyla Important Collar wrote: »

Sometimes i wondered how some of these teachs got away with it,student eventually leaves school,teach not think student could hold a grudge and beat the living shít out of the teach?.

I promised myself many years ago that if I ever ran into that teacher that slapped my head of the wall I would punch his lights out. Ive yet to meet him and that was 20 years ago now. If I ever do meet him I will slap his head of a wall. I wonder if getting a conviction for hitting a minor encouraged him to leave town?

Latchy

hondasam wrote: »

I'm sure some people check everything before the post to make sure it is ok. It is the internet and sometimes you post fast and mistakes happen.

Exactly and people should allow for that human error and the edit button is there to alter any mistakes except you have to spot your own mistakes before you can correct them which depending on what else you might be doing at the time ,could take seconds , minutes or even hrs .

Who at school hasn't used an eraser rubber to wipe something out ie, either a spelling / grammer mistake or just because what you wrote was a pile of **** ?

Of course if somebodys spelling or grammer is really atrocious then it's a bad refelection on them and does need to be pointed out .

fair play to parents and children who stand up to Teachers.

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