Teacher suspended for calling child a t**t

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In our local news today is a story of a welsh school teacher who has been suspended for 2 years for calling a child a twat. AIBU to think this is harsh? Is there more to the story?

If I’m ever sacked, I suspect it will be for muttering “for fucks sake” a little too loudly, or for telling a (twatty) pupil to stop
being a twat.

It sounds like she did a bit more than that though.

Where I live, twat is definitely linked to the female genitalia. So absolutely not acceptable language for a teacher to use, any more than calling a child a prick would be.

Agree with this, it is vulgar slang.

She referred to a child as being « a bit of a twat » to a collègue who reported it. She had been accused of bullying colleagues previously.
In local news parents have been saying how wonderful she was as a teacher.

Well if this is correct she should be suspended and it sounds like she isn’t suited to teaching. I hope she has a change of career and stays away for dc.

Completely unacceptable. She should have referred to the child as "a big girls' blouse" instead.

Well I called a lad a Wanker in the corridor the other day, he had just been graffiti-ing the walls, could have used various terms of endearment for this particular little turd.

Me: what are you doing?
Pupil: I'm writing on da wall innit?
Me: well, you better get something to clean it off.
Pupil: Nah, you can't do nuffin.
Me: You really are a prize wanker aren't you?
Pupil: You can't call me a wanker, teachers can't call me a wanker...
Me: Just did, life's tough...
Pupil: I'm going to tell my mum you said I'm a wanker
Me: Trust me, your mum already knows...

Pupil looks confused, onlooking crowd of kids burst out laughing, and the little scroat shrivelled like a pricked balloon, suddenly not such a "big I am"

She already has another job; looks like she left the school 3 years ago after attracting a number of complaints from colleagues for rudeness and aggression, and now runs a nursery.

Absolute shoe-in for a nursery manager 🧐

That's so unprofessional. You're there to lead by example and instill values in the children, not to behave just as badly as the kids to try and get laughs out of them. Bizarre thing to brag about.

I once heard about a Head of a PRU, bad boys place, and one of his scrotes called him 'yer a fucking wanker' to which the Head replied 'Oh for heaven's sake boy, make your mind up, I can be one or the other at the moment!'.
Sometimes words are a teacher's best weapon, a young colleague, quite a busty woman, was told by one 15 year old lad 'I'll get yer dun, I'll say you locked me in a cupboard and forced me to have sex with you'! He turned to smirk to his buddies, pleased with his cleverness but she replied 'You should be so bloody lucky!', his friends all collapsed laughing, he went bright red and she never heard another peep out of him till the day he left.

Where's the bollocks button when you need it!

Sounds fair enough.

@PropertyManager Sure-of course you did.

After seeing it was more involved and a catalogue of issues then yes she deserved it

No one wants to work with unprofessional bullies. I've done it, it was horrible.

No you shouldn't refer to pupils as twats, I'm not daft enough to think teachers don't go home or in the staff room and don't let off steam about pupils (I know they do, I have mates who teach in primary, secondary and SEN schools) but not near to pupils.

Sounds like it was the final straw.

A lot more to it that 1 incident by the look of it.
Sounds like she was a bit of a twat.

My very proper mum who never swore beyond "bloody" used to get a bit confused about what was a swear word.
She thought Twat was the same as Twit and Frigging the same as Flipping - we don't correct her as it was too funny.

Ha ha ha.
No.

Foundation Phase is Reception and Year 1s isn't it. You can't go around calling 5 years olds twats. NASUWT is pretty damn good, if she was suspended for 2 years I imagine it was the last straw in a period of problematic behaviour and this was the culminating moment.

I regularly call children much worse than "twat" behind their backs, but so far I've managed to avoid saying it to a kid's face! A two-year suspension is definitely OTT though. Especially if the kid was, in fact, being a twat.