To think kids shouldn't talk to teachers like this.

[onlyindreams]

I realise that the majority of kids will show respect to teachers but some of the stuff my dgc tell me is awful. One girl called her teacher a disgusting human being" , another said "you dirty little peado", another one said, when asked not to shout "who do you think you're talking to".

How has it all come to this, i despair, where's the respect gone, please tell me it's not all that bad and not typical of the average 12/13 year old and probably above.

Thankfully and hopefully it's not all of the high school pupils and hopefully the good pupils make the job worth it.

There will be no body willing to teach in the future .

Well considering dh has this evening been told to ‘go fuck yourself, I’m eating my fucking tea you cunt’ by a PARENT I’m hardly surprised

The parent was being called to be courteously reminded about tomorrow’s parents evening - like all the other parents were. That wasn’t the only rude response either.

I had a girl when I was covering a year 6 class say "let me go to the toilet now you b I am on my wrag". I couldn't believe it.

onlyindreams it is awful but it is not new.

When I was a teenager at school, about 36 years ago our class found out our teacher (young male) was living with his girlfriend. At the time it was quite rare and the class ripped the piss out of him.

Poor man, I think he was quite newly qualified and could not stop them, even when the meanies were out the less mean ones turned mean.

He was like a wounded gazelle!

One girl sat back in her chair and said "Rape me" to the teacher, she was a very large girl and about twice his size. I felt very sorry for him.

But schools and teachers should tackle this. It is sad but schools need to have power to remove instability all really unacceptable behaviour and for repeat offenders to be taken out of school exam records, IMHO.

Because I think fear of these kids failing keeps them in the class room being shitty.

And as well as the teacher suffering those in the class who are trying to learn, are also suffering and in some cases failing. IMHO.

Rag
Bloody phone.

LaurieFairyCake wow, that is so appalling, what a potty mouth parent. I wonder if schools now are a bit toothless.

I've been called every name under the sun and I'm an infant teacher.

Today I got 'No, you listen to me' from a five year old. Her mother thinks the attitude is cute.

There are no real punishments for shitty behaviour anymore. Exclusions are a badge of honour and a skive anyway.

They also catch it from each other because you can't stamp down on the original culprit.

My TA was called an arsehole by a 3 year old this week for helping him to put his coat on

I would send a child to the headmistress in my school. I once had a girl say her dad was to going to come and beat the s out of me for making her stand up for the afternoon as she had been leaning back on her chair.*

No excuse for the threats, but that's a seriously nasty humiliating punishment. I'm not sure if I'd be able to get one of my kids back through the classroom door after that. Please say it wasn't actually all afternoon, or it was mostly standing activities anyway??

BeyondThePage
Some teachers command respect, others don't.

As seen here, some think that it is primarily the teacher's fault.

It doesn't surprise, having seen the rudeness from a small minority of primary school children I can imagine how it's worse in secondary schools. I asked my DS what it's like, he says he's heard rudeness to teachers in his school - one pupil shouts 'alright mate' and 'alright sir' to the teachers.

He says it's worse in the lower sets from what people have said in assembly, pupils from the lower sets say worse things when the teachers get up to talk.

Children learn it from their parents :-( Wrong, but true :-(

Some teachers command respect, others don't.

This is a complete red herring. There is no excuse for abusive language and disrespect. There are precious few teachers who can command respect from all including the most difficult pupils. Even very experienced teachers with good discipline encounter rudeness from pupils, because many pupils simply do not accept authority.

I suppose sometimes it might be in retaliation to how they are spoken to by some teachers.

Yes I am spoken to terribly on a daily basis by a few kids.

Called the register the other day a kid answered

‘ What’

Yesterday a girl said ‘ why are you giving me hackies?’

I can deal with the rudeness appropriately and quickly but what really gets me is all the ‘ good’ kids that don’t listen and think their chat time is more important.

Winds me right up!

Education is definitely on a steep hill down.

Don't get me wrong I don't think random bad behaviour at school is right but I find it very hard to criticize any of the children and parents mentioned on this thread with out at least knowing the background to it

I suppose sometimes it might be in retaliation to how they are spoken to by some teachers.

another excuse

Yes it was all afternoon, she had been warned twice in the morning. She never did it again, better to be humiliated than crack her head open. Do you not think?

I'm in my 40s but when I was at school I remember a teacher having her long hair cut off by a student, a teacher having their shoes ripped off and thrown out of the window, and a teacher was locked in a stationary cupboard by half the class. It was a terrible school always in special measures and unsurprisingly I have no GCSEs from that school. On the other side my daughter is in a state grammar and it's very strict no nonsense and she's never witnessed bad behaviour. Previously she was at a small prep so I think she's in a bubble compared to my background.

Some of the posts on MN do show a lack of respect for teachers so I wouldn't be surprised at issues.