Teacher filmed attacking her horse

[GrabbyAbbie]

Just seen the footage of a woman attacking a horse after a "drag hunt"
She is a primary school teacher and a member of the pony club.
Aibu to think she should lose her job over this?

www.google.co.uk/amp/s/metro.co.uk/2021/11/09/foxhunter-filmed-slapping-and-kicking-horse-is-primary-school-teacher-15567946/amp/

I imagine she will.

How does it affect her ability to teach children?

She bloody well ought to

I'm not clear about the link between being a primary school teacher and animal cruelty that you're making.

She really should! Violent people shouldn’t be around children or animals.

Gosh, that's appalling. Poor, poor animal.

I'm on the fence about her job though. What we do in private, is just that, private. But, what's she's done is illegal and not very private is it? So actually, on balance perhaps I do agree with you.

I just feel so sorry for the animal.

YANBU.

I wouldn't want someone who treats animals like that around my DC. It's disgusting behaviour.

@FangsForTheMemory

I'm not clear about the link between being a primary school teacher and animal cruelty that you're making.

Maybe that we shouldn't trust cruel, violent abusers with our children?

I dont think it is illegal

Bringing the school into disrepute would be gross misconduct

I wouldn't want a person who could be aggressive to a vulnerable animal around my child, it's clear she has a nasty temper and was attacking the horse in front of young children.
It does not paint her character in a good light at all.

Because she clearly has boundary issues, temper control issues and has no problems hitting a horse in public. I wouldn't want her teaching my kids and the kids will know about it soon enough as it's in the news.

We are intelligent enough as humans in 2021 to understand that there is no correlation between physical abuse and better or improved behaviour.

Animals will only know they are being hurt in the moment and that will teach them to mistrust humans- not that they've done something to 'warrant' that. That poor horse. Sickening.

Poor horse :(

Of course she should lose her job. Teachers are supposed to be kind, empathetic and caring. Anyone who treats an animal like that deserves to be punished harshly and lose their job.

My daughter is a regular horse rider. Being firm with a horse is one thing. Being cruel - which this is - is another. Anyone who doesn't know how to be firm without being cruel has no place near an animal. And no place near anyone vulnerable including a child.

Section 9 of the Animal Welfare Act places a duty of care on people to ensure they take reasonable steps in all the circumstances to meet the welfare needs of their animals to the extent required by good practice.

Not only a teacher but also a director of a local pre-school apparently. I wouldn't consider a school that employed someone with such an uncontrollable temper.

The way she bitch slaps the horse is out of uncontrollable temper, you can see it. She's livid and the horse barely did anything wrong, I would not want my child to be cared for by a person like that. What if a child irritates her and she doesn't physically harm them but does something else sinister? No thanks!..

She’s been sacked from the local pony club where she was a team leader.

Women filmed attacking her horse.

There's a long thread in chat.

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/_chat/4396034-What-will-happen-to-that-horse-kicking-piece-of-scum?

Horrible woman

@thereisonlyoneofme

I dont think it is illegal

Of course it's illegal.

The process s for her crimes should occur.

Not some witch-hunt by "Outraged" of mumsnet demanding she loses her job

I think she should resign from the Pony Club since she should not be teaching young people anything about equestrianism. Whether or not she loses her job should be a question for her employers. Much as I abhor her actions, I don't like trial by social media. It's up to the school to deal with her and ask whether what she did affects her teaching. It is certainly affecting the school's reputation and they need to consider that as well.

As someone who has been around horses for 40 years, this sort of treatment is a lot more common than you would think. It is inexcusable and she needs to accept consequences. But I would hope the school would look at this in the round and at her reputation as a teacher. I would hope they would consider any contrition she might feel and then take her through their processes.

What she did is awful. Threatening someone's livelihood isn't great either and it needs to be up to her employer to decide.

@GrabbyAbbie

I wouldn't want a person who could be aggressive to a vulnerable animal around my child, it's clear she has a nasty temper and was attacking the horse in front of young children. It does not paint her character in a good light at all.

This. ^ What a vile, abusive, aggressive woman.

Gotta love the 'how does this affect her ability to teach children' brigade!

No comments about the appalling behaviour towards this lovely horse.

Speaks volumes about those posters.

I hope the woman is sacked from her job. As you say, who wants their children being around a vile woman like that?