This thread is appalling. I feel ill reading it. He hit a pupil around the head with a 3KG DUMBBELL. He was lucky he didn't DIE. But that's OKAY, is it? Because pupils can be little shits? Because he was under STRESS? :mellow:

 

I never said it was ok, nobody else said it was ok either. What the man did can never be forgiven, (I mean he hit a defenceless(physically) kid with a dumbbell) but you can't just gloss over the fact that he was provoked and he had depression troubles. People can do crazy things when they're under stress/depressed. That doesn't mean they're evil people. Beating someone up doesn't automatically make someone evil, it's the background/context behind it too.

 

Apparently this teacher had a very good record with kids, and past pupils even went to the court to support him.

 

The big thing I find fault with though is neither the teacher or the student..... it's just that teachers don't seem to be prepared these days to cope with ruthless children, they have next to no control.....students feel like they can do what they want and that's demoralizing for many teachers I'd expect. Something needs to be done before it gets to this stage, I've heard accounts of students punching teachers in the face, calling them every bad word under the sun, shoving them etc so don't think for a second that this is a one way bridge, it's not.

 

I wouldn't be surprised if before too long it'll be the students attacking the teachers with dumbbells

Edited May 5, 201015 yr by Sabrewulf

I do think a teacher should have the right to ban certain pupils from their classroom permanently. I've seen teachers have breakdowns in the classroom because of the behaviour of students and I think the teacher should have every right to tell them to go and get f***ed. It's probably not the 'right thing' to do or say, but I would say it to a person, regardless of which job I was in (maybe because I've had experience with these kinds of students [as a fellow student] and it's just made me more confident or something?).

 

Can teachers ban students from their classes in the UK? Here, the teacher usually says "detention. get out of my room" and then the student comes back the next day, apologizes, and then it just starts all over again (or not, if they're lucky).

Edited May 5, 201015 yr by Cal