Teacher assaulted my son - what to do?

mspig

jinky67 wrote: »

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

If i was hit in the face with an object i would of swore aswell at the person - so i see no need for the comment on the lack of respect, so what your saying is its ok for someone to hit another in the face(accidental or not) and the person on the receiving end should say 'oh dam you hit me never mind' - get real, swearing is a natural reaction when something like this occures.

As the mother has stated he was'talking in class' theirs a difference between talking and being disrupted - take it you never talked in any of your lessons when you were at school?

If it had been my sons teacher, i wouldn't of let it go this far i would of been in school demanding an apology and explanation on the day of the incident.
But you do need to decide what you want from the situation, do you want him sacked, disaplined or do you want your son moved out of his class and not taught by him again.

sooz

Indout96 wrote: »

What was a "BROOM HEAD" doing in a class room, was it just a board duster as others have asked? If so maybe the amount of exaggeration needs taking into acount.

that confuses me too If there was a broom head, minus handle, why would it be within reaching distance either? A broken broom isn't the normal thing you'd expect to keep in a classroom...unless perhaps the handle was used for floggings?

Pee

I suggest you speak to a Solicitor who specialises in education law. If you find several solicitors being disinterested in the matter the most likely reason is that they feel the matter is not going anywhere and that you don't have a case. That at least rules out that option.

MrsTinks

I've been following this thread with interest as I can see both sides here... and frankly OP I wasn't sure what it was you wanted to acchieve
IF a broom head was thrown (are we talking toy broom or yard broom or a totally different type of item?) then the teacher should be diciplined within the rules of the school, just like any other employee in any place of employment should be diciplined for a similar act.
On the other hand your son should certainly be diciplined too! I only left school 11 years ago so I'm not exactly ancient and I can promise you that talking in class would NOT have been tolerated in any of the 8 schools I had the fortune/misfortune to attend during my schooling. Yes my teachers were apparently better in some cases at addressing it than your sons teacher, but the difference I guess was that we had a healthy respect for our teachers in the first place - they may never have laid a hand on us but by jove we knew if we played up it would come back and bite us when we got home! Teachers might not have been allowed to punish us, but they certainly knew how to call your parents and in my view the parents rightly backed the teachers.
If you played up in class (even talking during lessons) you KNEW there were consequences later... So you didn't (or at least only did it once ).
Now it seems that when a teacher approaches a parent 9 times out of 10 the response is "My Johnny would never do that, you must be lying! I'll take it up with your head because you are spreading such malicious lies about my child!"... how do teachers have a hope of keeping control over kids when parents undermine them constantly?
So... I can understand the teachers fustration and reaction, but I don't condone it. I would personally make that clear to the head and ask again - calmly - for a full explanation of what happened and what steps they are taking to ensure the teacher doesn't do it again. It might be management training course to help them improve the skills to handle the kids better. It could be that the teacher has never in 20 years had a similar incident but after a day of kids being brats just had enough and it'll never happen again - that's fine in my book - I have days when I've left clients in a meeting because if I didn't walk out I'd have hit them! (apparently you can't do that to clients even when you can prove they are lying... pah!)
As for your son - I'd make clear that you think he should be punished for his actions, you don't feel the teachers reaction was appropriate but you do not think that mitigates the fact that HE was disrespectful in the first instant and as such the isolation punishment was appropriate. This is the end of this matter and you don't want to hear about it again and you do not want to hear of him disrupting the other pupils lessons again either or the diciplining will be far worse (like loosing x-box or something).
Don't undermine the teachers in his eyes - if you do then you're harming his chances of learning at a crutial stage of his education because he won't listen to the teachers and he will disrupt the other pupils too and that's just not fair.

amersall

when i was at school ( quite a lot of years ago lol) the teacher used to throw chalk if you were not paying attention or messing about, if we went home and told parents this, you would get a thick ear from them for not behaving in class, how times have changed. kids know that they can do what they want and nobody can do anything about it, bring back the cane and get rid of all the do gooders.

NAR

This is another fine example of lack of discipline in young people. Student is guilty of not paying attention, disrupting class by talking to other students and swearing. Outcome parent wants teacher disciplined for his actions. Further outcome student thinks his actions are acceptable!

As a parent you should have been punishing your son for his actions and showing support for someone trying to instil discipline into your son.

Glen0000

I cannot believe your attitude. If my child had come home with such a tale, punishment would be order of the day, not getting the teacher sacked! No wonder this country is in such a mess.

jamespir

when i was in school teachers used to throw the board rubber thingy at you if you was talking even when there back was turned .
also my pe teacher clipped me round the head with a cricket bat i went home and told me mum and she said good you probaby deserved iti cant believe this namby pamby state we live in these days where parents think they should sue teachers policeman for giving your child what they deserve the discipline that your not giving them

amersall

jamespir wrote: »

when i was in school teachers used to throw the board rubber thingy at you if you was talking even when there back was turned .
also my pe teacher clipped me round the head with a cricket bat i went home and told me mum and she said good you probaby deserved iti cant believe this namby pamby state we live in these days where parents think they should sue teachers policeman for giving your child what they deserve the discipline that your not giving them

hear hear, i second that 110% well said

dmg24

Mitchka wrote: »

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?

How has this gone from an isolated incident, where seemingly no harm was done, to a child's education being ruined?