swearing at a teacher....do you know

[GypsyMoth]

what the consequences are in your school??

someone i know got their child excluded for 3 days,another school gave a detention?

what have/would yours do?

[Goblinchild]

Depends on the circumstances, the language used, the needs of the child involved and whether it was a first offence.

[harpsichordcarrier]

Swearing AT a teacher - depends on the circumstances and the nature of the insult I would say.
After school detention / Saturday Detention in my school I would say

[TheFallenMadonna]

If a child told me to fuck off, they would be excluded, one day (probably internal exclusion, because we prefer to do it that way). If they said "my fucking book", they would have a detention.

[roisin]

If a student swore at a member of staff (rather than in their hearing), they would get a 1 day exclusion [if it was the first offence. 3 day for 2nd, 5 day for 3rd]

[DustDustDust]

It depends a LOT on the circumstance. At my school I think it would usually be an in-school exclusion for a day if you swore at a teacher.

On the other hand, on being told that she wouldn't be able to have a predicted grade if work wasn't handed in, my friend told the teacher "You can stick your effing grade up your *" and all she got was a stern talk with the year tutor.

[Loshad]

depends hugely on the school - last year i taught at a school where being told to f off by the pupils was normal, there were few consequences for it, as a result behaviour was very poor, coincidentally results were very poor too.
I'm curently teaching in a school with much tighter behaviour managment - ofsted outstanding - i've only been told to f off once all academic year - student got a 1 external, 2 day internal exclusion. Depending on the age of the student I tend to ignore swearing in my earshot, not directed at me, other than a comment like "i didn't really hear what i though i did did I?", or "language"

[penguin73]

as Goblinchild says - I have known pupils to be let off with a warning and others have been excluded for varying amounts of time.

[TheMonster]

it really depends on a lot of things: the actual word/s used, if it was aimed directly at a teacher or more muttered, how the teacher reacted at the time/followed it up, which member of SLT dealt with in.

[MissMisa]

I was excluded for a day for being rude to a teacher. (Really don't think I should have been, mind you, as I didn't swear and she was being unreasonable in my opinion.) While others just get a telling off.

If the kid is naughty all the time, teachers are half arsed and stop bothering, it seems. If that child behaves well once in a while they are heavily praised for that, too.

If they child is normally very good, doing something like this will get you in a lot of trouble.

Unfair but that's how I observed it.

[maddy68]

in my school it would be at least 1 day exclusion if it was not the first offence it would be much longer and could result in the kid being withdrawn from that gcse subject

[missdisorganised1]

It depends on the circumstances. I was cut a lot of leeway by the school when my parents were killed but I only really needed it once or twice. I did have a "time out" pass for a few weeks so if things got bad so I could just leave any lesson at any time.

I was 17 if that makes a difference?

[emilielondon]

At my school, it would be at least an internal exclusion, usually an external. I teach in inner-city London and am a Head of Year. I would never work in a school that only gave a detention for it unless it was an EBD (special) school. Very few students really can't help how they behave.