To feel sorry for the teacher who was secretly recorded?

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Not one drop of sympathy she can't tell the difference between a cat and a child. We need to shine a light on this ridiculous ideology

Nah, not in the slightest.

Her behaviour was scandalous. If she's so confident in her ridiculous claims, then she can stand by them on SM.

There is a girl in year 10 with my ds who identifies as a cat, she sometimes goes to school wearing ears and a tail, she doesnt go to school much though as apparently she has anxiety. I have spoken about it before but my posts were deleted.

@BCCoach @PowerTulle you clearly have no understanding of schools.
So you say it’s ok for students to covertly record conversations with teachers…
-what about ‘cat girl’. Her privacy needs to be protected. Don’t think for one second that the pupils at this school don’t know who this is and aren’t laughing at her.
-what if cat girl is very vulnerable. The girls doing the recording have said she should be in an asylum (allegedly) and are on record saying she is mentally very unwell. Those are horrible things to be out there online about you, imagine how she must feel.
-conversations in the background - recordings might catch something that needs to remain confidential/safeguarding etc.

i could go on. It is totally unacceptable to do this to a teacher and to then put it online.

as I said, I disagree 100% with what the teacher said, and I think she handled the whole thing poorly. But she doesn’t deserve this.

Unions?!? Hahaha!!! They’re the most ‘woke’ of the lot.

I agree with you. They have no other recourse

It’s why whistleblowing exists as there’s a power imbalance

The teacher exerts it over the students when telling them to find another school and go to training

To all the people saying the girls were wrong to record this... If the DM had run this story just on the girls' word, and there was no audio recording, be honest would you have instantly dismissed it as fake?

No. You have not read my posts. Nowhere did I reference covert recording of anyone.

I’m asking you why you would be so opposed to being recorded, properly and with full knowledge, doing your professional duties? I’m curious. It seems to me that both teachers and pupils are being left in very vulnerable positions and I’m considering why teachers find the idea of classes being observed so abhorrent.

And as a school governor I’m very familiar with schools and activities directly regarding safeguarding. That is my first priority.

That's awful. No teenager should be enabled to to expose her mental illness in this way to her peers. No wonder she has anxiety. The adults are completely failing her - and no doubt many of them hiding their genuine anxiety for her because an adult ideology (that has no business influencing children in schools) dictates that all acquired identities are legitimate.

What a safeguarding fail.

Correct

At 13 if I'd had a teacher saying that to me I'd have been incredibly upset and worried about how this would come back on me. Would I get into trouble? Would my parents be hauled in and told about what I'd supposedly done? Would I have to change schools?

They were wetting themselves laughing as they left, and seemed fully confident that their parents would be fine with them describing other pupils as weird or crazy, so I don’t think they were that worried.

Of course they would have called it fake, it happens all the time when dealing with this subject.

That's why instead of saying it's fake, they've moved onto the girls are bullies and must have edited the audio in order to make the teacher look bad.

It's not a good look for the ones that are defending this.

CatKid needed proper protection then didn't they?

Not propped up by this bullshit which other kids are supposed to indulge behind the injustice of this ideology.

You CAN NOT blame the other kids for the safe guarding failures of schools, which left them feeling they had no other recourse but to whistleblow.

'wetting themselves'

Wetting themselves laughing. What’s the problem there?

To me, it seems like the other kids laughing at Cat Girl is the least of her problems.

She needs professional support for her mental health, not being patronised and affirmed by ideologically captured dopey teachers.

Of course they were wetting themselves laughing, most sane people would after being sat down and told that a girl can be a cat.

To me, it seems like the other kids laughing at Cat Girl is the least of her problems.

Regardless, it is still a teacher’s job to intervene if people are being unpleasant to her.

1000%

‘Wetting themselves’ how do you know? I don’t think that is on tape , or has been reported? Were you there to observe this, or as a participant?

or are you just resorting to making stuff up?@

She was telling absolute lies and berating the Girl, it’s unacceptable.
She should be disciplined at the very least and told not to believe outside training companies without doing research.

She didn’t handle it well but she shouldn’t have been secretly recorded.

Yes, she should have, the bullying, delusional, dictatorial fud.

They were laughing as they left, it’s on the recording. They were laughing saying they’d caught it all on film.

• ‘it is unacceptable to record somebody. it is unacceptable to record somebody. Those people who say teachers should be recorded all the time, I just hope they can afford private school fees because trust me there will be an even bigger recruitment crisis if teachers were being recorded to check they had the ‘right’ views. This isn’t 1930s Germany.’

When I started out as a university lecturer 20 years ago I was told students were allowed to record me as some find it useful for their learning. I said ‘must I allow this? It adds to the pressure while I am finding my feet’ and was told I had no choice as it was an accessibility issue.
I haven’t noticed a recruitment crisis in academia.
While I understand the reluctance I think teachers will probably have to suck it up if it’s deemed useful for other reasons. Tbh if anyone is out to get you you’re probably better off with an actual recording as a group of students even without a recording could still get together and swear you have said something you haven’t.

Yep. How else would you prove what went on. People still excuse it with the recording, let alone without it.