Question for teachers

[ByLoudSeal]

If a child stands on a thumb tack bare footed or wearing socks that a teacher had accidentally dropped and not realised what happens to the teacher?

Getting ready for PE maybe?

Well they are run out of town.

In all seriousness though schools should ideally be using the kind of drawing pins that more like little pegs. They can’t land spike up.

Teacher talks to parents after it has happened, apologises & explains how they’d avoid it in future.

Maybe a discussion with slt about how to avoid similar in future.

Everyone makes mistakes.

Nah. They don't live that long. Shot at lunch break in front of the whole school.

How do they know that the teacher dropped the thumb tack. It could have fallen out of an art display, another child may have had it with them or removed it from the display. Deny all knowledge Mrs Seal.

Nothing, because obviously it's the teacher's word against that of the child, so they can pretend that the child was fiddling with the thumb tack, but dropped it and trod on it. Had they listened and not taken their shoes off it wouldn't have happened!

I think a more thorough investigation is needed.

Where is the evidence that it is this specific teacher dropped the thumb tack? Can we prove it beyond reasonable doubt?

Could it be someone brushed against the display and said thumb tack dropped on the floor?

Maybe the thumb tack was dropped there by a naughty goblin on its way to the underworld?

I think it is proven that we can not pin this on said teacher. I rest my (pencil) case.

Full risk assessment.
Ban on tacks in school except for site team use.
Blu tac only policy.
Blu tac must be white to prevent marking paintwork.

🤣🤣🤣 PFB OP? Why was child bare foot? Life happens.

Oh FFS

Why is the child wearing socks dropped by the teacher?

This made me chuckle! Thank you.

Why FFS? It’s the drawing pins we use at my school. The dome type ones land spike up. Why is using a safer kind of drawing pin so ridiculous?

no potatos

Teacher is put in the stocks
Parent and child do a sad face article holding the shoe they wish they had on when they trod on the drawing pin.

I want to know what happens when a child puts a drawing pin on a teacher’s chair and the teacher sits on it?

Although those are easier for children to pull out of displays and use as weapons. Whereas the flat ones are much harder for little fingers to grip. Therefore safer in a different way.

Quick! Ban all drawing pins immediately.

wearing socks that a teacher had accidentally dropped

Was this in an episode of Allo Allo?

This takes me back many years when I was at school and I jumped off one of those long beams that children sit on in assembly and landed on a bolt sticking out the floor, which went right through the sole of my shoe and into my foot.

Obviously in the 70s nothing happened, no note home and I just hobbled round school for the rest of the day! Think I would much rather have stepped on a drawing pin!