My son teacher who is now a senco called my son an idiot fuming???

Picky_Pickle

Someone looking for some compo...

daytona0

Picky_Pickle wrote: »

Someone looking for some compo...

From who? The very same school are giving her son a free education? :eek: How ironic would that be :beer:

In fairness though, if the teacher has behaved like this then that's completely wrong. I used to teach and I would call a colleague up on that sort of behaviour (but that sometimes leads to your own demise sadly; hence why spines are sometimes lacking).

Practically speaking, OP should be recognising the fact that it just mirrors real life. Idiots coming into contact with you. You have to learn how to handle them. That being said, even highly strung teachers wouldn't call a child an "idiot" unless it was at least partially warranted...

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When I was at school, a certain English teacher used to throw the wooden blackboard duster at anybody when he got annoyed, and I still remember a rhyme he recited to the class when a fellow pupil didn't do his homework:

"Kevin Parkhouse must live in a dark house. He can't see to write because there's no light".

Move on

grunnie

People wonder why there aren't enough teachers and the supply teachers become fussy which schools they will go to. Also why teachers are leaving for other careers and why many graduates are not even considering teaching as a career.

SpammyTheSpammer

grunnie wrote: »

People wonder why there aren't enough teachers and the supply teachers become fussy which schools they will go to. Also why teachers are leaving for other careers and why many graduates are not even considering teaching as a career.

But the short 9-15:30 days and the huge long holidays?
Cannot think why anyone would NOT want to be a teacher!
(Spammy puts her tin helmet on and slides down into the trench)

giraffe69

(Spammy puts her tin helmet on and slides down into the trench)

Good idea.
1. My working day was not 9-15.30 but more like 08:00 to 17:30 plus other duties e.g. marking, parent evenings, preparation.
2. Working conditions are not necessarily always ideal. Behaviour problems if you teach in a rough area, perhaps, unrealistic parental expectations in other areas.
Agree that holiday entitlement is better than other jobs although when I was working 5 days were summarily removed so that training could happen. Conscientious teachers prepare in the holidays. This who don't initially have an easier ride until perhaps early in the term it becomes obvious to all and sundry that they are the 9-5 merchants.
If it was all pluses then no doubt people would be queuing at the front door and they are not.

Auntie-Dolly

I work in a school office and I would not want to be a teacher for all the tea in China. It is exhausting! Believe me, they deserve the holidays.

Kaye1

I worked with teenagers for a long while. They can sometimes behave like idiots. It is natural. They usually turn into lovely people.

We as a class decided to make up a word for this- when someone is behaving in a manner that needed to be sorted out. We discussed how Roald Dahl used to push words together or make them up- and we came up with the word 'twonk.' Twit at the start and wonky at the end. (Don't ask me why!)

So children in my class would know that when Mrs.XXXX called them a 'twonk,' they were getting out of line. Would you be 'fuming' if you son reported that? Or would it have been the adult, decent, grown up thing to do, to contact the school and speak to them in a mature grown up manner?

You have made yourself look a right 'twonk.'

vrbarreto

Things we were called by the Religion teacher at school:

a) Peabrains
b) Products of Phantom Pregnancies

Kids learn to ignore them..

DoaM

Sleazy wrote: »

When I was at school, a certain English teacher used to throw the wooden blackboard duster at anybody when he got annoyed

We had a Physics teacher like that ... Mr. Dowson. Anyone acting up in the classroom got the blackboard duster thrown at them.

He was a master at it ... he could turn from the blackboard, duster in hand, and less than a second later the duster was on its way to the target - and he never missed.

"Dead-eye Dowson" we called him ... he should have been a darts player.