Teacher assaulted my son - what to do?

Rev

Everyone seems to have jumped to the conclusion that the child must have been at fault.

How many of you would be happy if your child came home and told you a teacher had thrown a brush head at them and it had hit them in the face? And how many of you, if you were hit in the face by a teacher throwing a brush head would remain perfectly calm and not used an expletive or two?

A child not paying attention in class annoying, yes, but it gives the teacher zero right to throw something such as a brush head at the child. A paper ball maybe, to get the child's attention, but nothing that could very, very easily have caused real damage.

We're all guilty of not paying attention at some point, but that doesn't make it okay to go launching objects at people. No more than it would be okay if the child were being aggressive toward the teacher.

To be honest, I'm not sure what I'd do in your situation, but I know I'd be furious and wouldn't be happy to just 'leave it at that'.

Patrick20

Something similar happened to my 15 year old brother. In his situation he also used an expletive after the teacherpicked on him. After that they sent him into a room and got three teachers(know for their no !!!!!! attitude a.k.a bullies) and proceeded to interogate him. He is a very good student aswell and is liked by all his class teachers, but this teacher did not know him.

My mother had a meeting with the school but they tried to cover it up and they had several people in the room arguing for the teacher, where as it was her and my brother alone. I would suggest the op find out as much as possible(build a case to put to the head) and make sure your not alone against multiple opposition.

Good lUCK

dieselhead

I think you need to decide what you want to happen. Do you want the teacher dismissed, suspended, formally warned??

I suspect that the internal investigation will at least have meant that the teacher will have had a good talking to from the head, and will be well and truly keeping their head down, I really doubt that they will do anything of the sort again.

It sounds to me like the teacher had come to the end of their tether with pupils that just refused to pay attention and they made a mistake, one that has the possibility of ruining their career, I can't imagine they are having the time of their life at the moment.

I can understand the OP's frustration, after all what happened was wrong very wrong, no teacher should ever harm a pupil, intentionally or not.

daily_2

g) Forget about it, and move on.

Mitchka

jd87 wrote: »

No reason to ruin a teacher's career over a harmless accident.

I'm sure we've all at some time or another been exposed to useless teachers with no control whatsoever over their classes allowing mayhem and then overreacting.

Should these types be allowed to carry on ruining kids' education?

liney

Whilst the teacher shouldn't have thrown anything, your son wasn't actually hurt, and so far you only have your son's word about what actually happened.

Remember the old saying about "His side of the story, her side of the story and the truth" ?

SugarSpun

liney wrote: »

Whilst the teacher shouldn't have thrown anything, your son wasn't actually hurt, and so far you only have your son's word about what actually happened.

Remember the old saying about "His side of the story, her side of the story and the truth" ?

Exactly. I was a mediator in halls of residence disputes, between wardens and students, and the number of times that students would come to me wanting to make a formal complaint about a warden and offer me a plausible story was enough to keep me really busy. When checked with the warden, the story was normally completely different, and when checked on CCTV cameras there was normally an element of lunacy on both sides.

Tempers get frayed when teenagers are hormonal. If you want to get to the bottom of it that's fine, but don't assume the teacher's the only one at fault.

Zazen999

The important thing is; is he now back in a class or still in some sort of isolation? As it's his education and exams that is really the issue here.

Or was it just the 2 days isolation?

Has he learnt not to talk in class?

Is he being taught by the same teacher and what is the relationship now?

DKLS

Was it a board rubber that was launched at your sons head?

Sounds like my old geography teacher, I still have the dint in my head from the last occasion the board rubber hit me.

Simply, I should have been paying attention. I wouldnt have dared complain to my parents about it, for fear of getting into more trouble.

jinky67

Quite simply, your son wasnt paying attention in class, the teacher got his attention....sorted.
And your son was at fault for swearing back at the teacher, total lack of respect.
You should be backing the teacher, after all your son was disrupting the class