Physical Requirements.. Surely not?

PasturesNew

With kids, surely the key skills are to have eyes in the back of your head - and 'hear' from 100 yards if they've gone quiet (quiet always indicates they're up to something).

lincroft1710

PasturesNew wrote: »

With kids, surely the key skills are to have eyes in the back of your head - and 'hear' from 100 yards if they've gone quiet (quiet always indicates they're up to something).

I think the Physical Requirements are incorrect, should be "all-round vision" and "supersonic hearing"

Guest101

lincroft1710 wrote: »

I think the Physical Requirements are incorrect, should be "all-round vision" and "supersonic hearing"

6 arms, 360 degree upper body rotation and perfect balance are also key I believe

JJG

emsywoo123 wrote: »

I *think* (please note, I am only trying to interpret!) that the OP is asking, for example, can the nursery discriminate on the basis that someone is completely deaf? Or registered as partially sighted? As part of the recruitment process, can they say, basically, "no deaf people".

I am guessing (once again, just a guess, hard to tell from this rant!) that she is querying it as it falls under a protected characteristic under the Equality Act 2010.

I am trying to help OP..........:rotfl:

Personally I wouldn't want a deaf person supervising my child (if I had one). There are plenty of situations when a noise would alert a person to a child in danger/injured.

haras_nosirrah

Good God I hope being able to see and hear adequately is a requirement to supervise young children (note it says with or without aids so glasses and hearing aids ok)

How would a blind teacher supervise the class? Make sure they were not fighting each other or doing something dangerous? Check the children's work etc.

How would a deaf teacher be able to answer or understand their questions or be able to hear what was going on.

Some jobs just require people to have these two senses in tact or be able to use aids to enable them to see and hear to a certain standard. If it starts being discrimination to not allow people to not have certain jobs they physically can't do then I am not looking forward to when we start getting blind bus drivers on our roads or deaf call centre operatives

torbrex

haras_nosirrah wrote: »

How would a blind teacher supervise the class? Make sure they were not fighting each other or doing something dangerous? Check the children's work etc.

We had a blind music teacher at school and she handled the class with no problems at all.

RichardD1970

haras_nosirrah wrote: »

we start getting blind bus drivers on our roads or deaf call centre operatives

From recent experience I'm not too sure don't already have these.

gunsandbanjos

torbrex wrote: »

We had a blind music teacher at school and she handled the class with no problems at all.

How old were the class? There was a blind lecturer at my university and that didn't cause any issues.

However this case specifically relates to a nursery role, so ages 0-4? Different kettle of fish altogether.

haras_nosirrah

If talking about nursery school you are talking about teaching very young children not older kids who can be trusted

Having a 3 year old myself I would not want him to be looked after by a blind person - sorry if that is discrimination. Came into the room the other day to him trying to climb the book case to reach the phone as he wanted to phone grandma. Young kids need someone who can watch what they are doing especially if there are multiple children

haras_nosirrah

Older children not so much as an issue as they can be more trusted and also adapt their behaviour (e.g assist a lip reading teacher through looking at them and speaking slowly and annunciating clearly) try getting a 4 year old to do that