Teachers

As with all these things, it's often a bit dodgy to comment unless you know all the facts.

But anyway....

It's one of those stories that really makes you angry. A teacher was suspended and then given a final warning for making late pupils do press ups as a punishment. More details here.

Just to confirm - apparently the pupils decided amongst themselves what the punishment should be, and these are pupils that were late. Not just ones that the teacher didn't like the look of. It wasn't like they couldn't have prevented it.

From the head teacher, Wendy Whelan:
"It came to our attention on Thursday 20 November that a form tutor may have been using unacceptable sanctions when students in his form have been late to registration."

Good lord. Next the teachers won't be allowed to tell the little darlings off incase it upsets them. We need to be giving the teachers more powers in the classroom, not taking them away.

She continues: "Our priority is to ensure that students are happy to be in school"

Well actually....I might disagree with that a little bit. Your priority should be to ensure that the pupils get a good education. Certainly they shouldn't be harmed in any way, but fear of authority never did anyone any harm. And there's no reason that school can't be fun, but it's not the main aim.

Just to repeat - her name's Wendy Whelan and she needs to be sacked, now.

Unless she wants to become a Rozzer, because I get really upset when they give out speeding tickets and the priority of the police should be to make sure that we're all happy.