Help please, marched off premises

sangie595

xapprenticex wrote: »

I think thats the only bit that applies to what I said, as for the rest, you're better of dicsussing it with someone else. I'm not that good a judge of character and intention of people I've never seen/met over the internet, I'll put my hands up and admit it.

You made it clear that you thought the responses were "bashing" a newbie. And that this was the usual response of posters (including you?). So since the majority of posts have suggested that this behaviour is inappropriate from a teacher, that it is a reportable for misconduct, and that it could easily constitute gross misconduct, since this is "bashing", you must disagree with these comments. So what specifically do you find appropriate in this behaviour and how would you suggest the OP proceed?

Or are you simply posting to lash out at everyone else?

Sunnybunny_2

Thanks for all the really unhelpful comments and the sarcastic ones. I thought this was a support forum. No I am not 16. Yes I am a teacher. Yes I have formerly left my previous job. No I am not racist. I said allegedly. I haven't actually committed these offences. How quick you are to judge!! I didn't even get a disciplinary hearing or notification. I was just dismissed. Yes there is a lot more to the story. I wasn't even interviewed for the post. The establishment is facing redundancies. I left my last job with every intention of retiring from teaching I am only 50! This post was then advertised as a permanent position, advertised in the TES, so I applied, thinking I may stay another couple of years. Then nothing happened. No I am not an English teacher. Now you have all finished ridiculing me, can someone help please? Lots more to tell but complex. Oh...and the were inspected whilst I was there.
And it's a 6th form college.

Valli

If you really are a teacher then you will have had the good sense (I hope) to join a Union and they are best placed to advise and support you.

In the meantime record what happened; what has been said to you, what you have overheard etc.

tomtontom

Do you think how you acted is the way a teacher should act?

With less than two months service you have few legal rights. You need to write this off to experience (of what not to do next time) and move on.

Mojisola

Sunnybunny wrote: »

Apparently I discussed my holiday with the students and the fact that I danced with a black man, God forbid, which is not gross misconduct... And I was being silly with quiz buzzers that make silly noises am I put 2 down my top and pressed them and said ding dong!! Avon calling.

I hardly think that is gross misconduct. Stupid perhaps.

Sunnybunny wrote: »

No I am not racist. I said allegedly. I haven't actually committed these offences.

You didn't say that you hadn't done those things in the first post.

gettingtheresometime

to be honest I doubt many 16 - 18 yr olds have even heard of the slogan 'ding dong avon calling'

so did you put buzzers down your front and say 'ding dong etc'?

From your comments about being silly but not gross misconduct I think you did (if this is for real)

ViolaLass

A member of SLT telling you to play nice when Ofsted interview you is nothing new. My head did the same.

Sunnybunny_2

No I did not say ding dong Avon calling.. It was apparently something 'like that'. To be honest I was too annoyed to take it all in. I did discuss my holiday with the students as they asked where I had been as I have a tan. But not in the way it was described. I was not teaching a lesson when the buzzer issue happened. Students were sat in my room messing about with them. Incidentally i have been a teacher for 20 years with an exemplary record. Until I came to this place and found out if you complain you are out.

patman99

Op, When at School, I had 2 science teachers who made learning fun with their whacky teaching methods.
I can remember them getting us to do some really dangerous experiments (such as turning syringes into gas-powered rocket launchers to demonstrate expansion of gases).

They always put safety first and never messed around like you apparently have (although one did get fired from another School for accidentally sending a rocket through the ceiling of the science lab into the maths room above).

Roll on 31 years and I am glad to say that I have met up with one of the teachers via a local camera club and am now good friends with him.

Your behaviour will leave an imprint on your former pupils. Unfortuanately, it won't be the same imprint that my teachers left on me.

Sunnybunny_2

I'm actually an Outstanding teacher not a specimen. Thank you.