School nonsense, and some fruit.
Written by David WhiteThis has absolutely nowt to do with photography, but I need a vent. I’ll give you a pic at the end.
I’ve just been speaking to the head teacher at my lad’s school. There is a child in one class who is completely unruly and undisciplined, I’m sure you can imagine. Disrupts the whole class, constantly. Said child has developed a successful strategy of hiding under a table during lessons. Successful in that no-one can get her out. She’s only five…it can’t be that hard, surely?….
….the school are not allowed to touch any child at all, not even to take their hand. The teacher’s hand has to be offered to the child, and the teacher has to ask the child if they would like to take it. The child chooses. As for removing a child from under a desk, even with parental permission, they are not allowed to touch the child. So, under the desk the child stays, whilst disrupting the class. The teacher then tries to give them work to do whilst they sit under the desk. Who is controlling whom here? Genius.
How screwed up is that? How can schools ever enforce or teach any sort of discipline or respect if they cannot take control of situations? I mean, we’re talking a five year old under a desk, not negotiating the Berne Convention.
And here’s a picture of some pseudo fruit:
Discussion (6 Comments)
Are UK teachers allowed to touch desks? Perhaps lure desk away from child with pseudo tomato?
First, give the child an A for making fools of adults.
The adults in question who made up the rule(s) are playing the exact same game as the 5 yr old- hiding from those who should be able to deal with the problem in a logical, effective manner. Get the parents together and start disrupting the administrators’ peace and quiet, and you’ll see how quickly that rule would change. Of course, not even going to get into what would happen if there was a fire, emergency, etc and the girl refused to take hold of the extended hand…
Ah, well Stan, it gets better.
I was told later that even if the child is about to run across the road (and said child has a habit of doing so) then they are not allowed to grab the child to prevent it. Progressive, that is. I would hope things would be different in an emergency situation.
is this the school’s rule or the LEA’s?
what a load of balls
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