Oh dear.
You don’t think that you should know the law about your own profession, with which you’re required to comply?
You have personal responsibility legally to comply with it. “My boss told me to” isn’t a legally valid defence.
What if your boss behaves illegally and tells you to do something illegal? How will you ensure you’re complying with the law and the TRA’s ethical and professional codes if you don’t even know what the law states?
You can’t call yourself a professional if you’re happy to be this ignorant. This isn’t acceptable for anybody in any profession. In any other profession regardless of what the organisational policies were, you would be personally held accountable and struck off for breaking the law and not whistleblowing and refusing to do it, if the organisational policy broke the law.
The utter irresponsibility of this post is eye-opening, like you don’t even think it is your responsibility to ensure that you comply with the law of your profession.
And you wonder why people don’t view teachers as proper professionals like those in law, finance, medicine.
You come here, spouting nonsense with no understanding of the law about your own job. Then claim parents are unreasonable.
I wonder why there is such animosity between many parents and schools, with teachers so ignorant about the legal minimum requirements of their own jobs and saying it’s someone else’s job to tell them what they’re meant to do.
In proper professions, that wouldn’t stand up. You’d not only be stripped of your professional qualifications but be personally fined and, in cases of deliberate and repeated breaches, imprisoned.
A zero-tolerance regulator is clearly the only way to clear up the disgraceful, toxic and illegal behaviour explified by the appalling comments seen here from teachers. You have no shame, and are happy even to post publicly about your total ignorance and disregard for the law and pretend the problem must be anybody who calls you out on it.
Ironically, you have perfectly proved my point.