to think that if I were in any other job, this would be taken extremely seriously?

[dollydoops]

Today at work, a huge erect penis was drawn on my door in glue. This is the second time this has happened. Also, an unwrapped condom was left on the floor of my room. I was in tears and very upset. Still am.
Guess what my job is? And if this happened in your job, what would you expect to happen?

This is what nice children would perceive as bullying and what teachers say is the result of them having difficult childhoods. Funny a teacher feels bullied and wouldn't mind a consequence for the perpetrators really. Boot and other foot springs to mind. . Not nice to be targetted is it?

Sorry? I'm not sure what you're getting at, marriedinwhite.

Some advice never ever react to something like this in front of the students or you will be getting locked in a cupboard in a few weeks,

they will thin k your reaction is hilarious and it will encourage them , unless I went to a particularly rough school , all teachers that reacted in this way to teasing were teased again and again.

YANBU. Most places of work that deal with the public have those 'we won't tolerate disrespect or violence towards our staff' signs.
As a teacher you have to put up with it all the time with little or no power to do much about it. When I was teaching I was kicked, spat at and occasionally sworn at. These childten behaved in the same way to all staff so i did not take it personally but it was not pleasant.

When I was pregnant one boy threw a chair across my classroom and later when we @poke to him and reminded him that it was especially dangerous behaviour with a pregnant woman in the room he said 'don't matter if something happens to this baby, she can always have another one.'

I agree teachers have to put up with behavior from pupils and parents that would not be acceptable in most other professions.

spoke thanks phone.

I wouldn't cry about it personally. I got a little annoyed when they took my brand new (allowance for the next 5 years) felt tips and used them for a "pen war" then pocketed the ones they wanted. I was mildly irritated when they threw a textbook out of the window. I was slightly hurt when my own tutor group (whom I spoil rotten with party's and stuff at Christmas, Easter and end of year) put pins on my desk chair especially as these pins had been in my desk draw. And I felt deeply betrayed when someone stole my mobile phone. Never actually cried over a pupil though. Although, I once cried about the history teacher who cancelled my photocopying when I went to get paper and messed up my whole print job and lesson resources - I was 6 months pregnant at the time and very hormonal though

Hence why I feel justified in calling some of my pupils, Scrotes.

How about some confessions about what we did to teachers?

My class took a chair to bits and set it up without nails for one whom we didn't like to sit on. With the desired effect.

Catherine

The other day our place were talking about 'Tiers of support'. The immediate joke was that in our dept it's more like 'Tears' of support!

Away from the kids, of course.
We're a very emotional/hormonal & supportive bunch! I luff my colleagues!

I am absolutely speechless. Well, not that speechless obviously. What planet is everyone else on?? Why is this sort of thing allowed. Teenagers are "hormonal", er, so what. Get used to it! Soooo disrespectful. And I don't mean that in an oldperson way, respect is two ways.

We filled our blazer pockets with newly-mown grass for the teacher with hay fever. Lesson lasted 7 minutes (we kept a book on it).

We took the ink thingies out of our biros and whistled down the hollowed tube. Teacher with hearing aid thought he had a malfunction and let us out early. The next lesson we shouted replies to him. He turned down hearing aid. Then we whispered replies to him. And so it went on.

Yeah, teacher (guessed it before seeing the answer).

(and we all know teaching is such an easy career, isn't it? )

I hope the headteacher takes this very seriously - it's clearly and definitely unacceptable.

dolly -you have my sympathy but I think as others have said this would not be tolerated from colleagues, but many jobs have to put up with crap from 'clients'

It's not right but it is the state of affairs

I was punched and spat at the other day (I work in the NHS). No action will be taken.
One man wanked in front of me. Others have been sexually abusive...I could go on. I rarely demonstrate any reaction (I did skip quickly to avoid the phlegm)

I do operate a zero tolerance - one abusive incident and I don't offer anymore care. (Ill health causing abusive behaviour excluded from this)

I am not a teacher but I agree with ignoring the incidents. Mainly because unless you know who did it you cannot effectively tackle it. (Deprive them of your reaction). If I could find out the pepetrator I'd punish heavily though.

I'm also amazed at the lack of sympathy on this thread. This is bullying and sexualised bullying. I don't think the OP should tolerate - I think she should deal with it by depriving them of an instant reaction but doling out major retribution if she can identify offenders

Must be a teacher. I don't think I would be in tears, to be honest, but I'd be disciplining the culprits, certainly.

You'd do well to find a working glue stick, mind you, in my classroom (primary teacher )

Woral - what? Because the stuff was on her door, and dropped on the floor of her class when she was teaching, which suggests it was something to do with her.

I agree jamie

unless there is a cock on every teachers door at some point, and condoms scattered willy-nilly, then it is to some degree personal

and it isn't acceptable

I wonder if male teachers get fannies on their door < shrug >

no-one wants to draw fannies. Boys draw cocks. Girls draw cocks. Freud would have a lot to say about it.

How do you get to make that choice Toothbrush? Are you at a very high level in the NHS?

"I do operate a zero tolerance - one abusive incident and I don't offer anymore care."

Towndon...any health professional can refuse to treat a patient that has been intimidating and verbally or physically abusive

That's very interesting AF.

Wonder how that could work in education?

No-one draws fannies because fannies are something to be ashamed of. Germane Greer would have even more to say than Freud.....

We used to put thumb tacks on teachers chairs, we would get one of them about once a week, great fun :)

Laxatives in their brews, probably a dangerous amount really but to a teen absolutley hysterical :)

Super glueing things to their desks :)

Setting fire alarms off, using the fire extinguishers as ghost busters, humming (that sounds crap, but imagine a whole class humming loudly everytime you turn round, bend down, turn away,) such fun :)

Germaine

When we have open evening at my school we have to rearrange the desks in the classroom to make sure there are no carved in cocks on view.

Boys don't draw fannies on each others' books. It's always cocks. Even some of my bloody sixth formers do it.