world gone mad head teacher suspended for 4 months after he frees pupil from a cupboard

[Blandmum]

headteacher suspended

If the boy had been mine I'd have grounded him!

what were the little brats locking a girl in a cupboard for anyway?

Im with teh Head!

Unbelievable! No wonder no-one wants to go into teaching these days!

Oh for goodness' sake, those parents should be thoroughly ashamed of themselves and their son.

Any child of mine would probably have been locked in a dark cupboard for a month after pulling a stunt like that and the headteacher treated to a bottle of whisky for acting sensibly (only joking - well re the cupboard anyway).

I can see that a teacher gets suspended 'without prejudice' if a complaint involving violence is made, but why on earth has it taken 4 months to sort out???

Poor man.

I do think there should be some kind of comeback on parents for causing unnecessary trouble like this - a bit like 'wasting police time'. Imaginhe the disrution to the school to have the Head missing like that.

What sort of parent's first response to their child trapping another in a cupboard is to go on the offense?

Answer, the sort of parents who's children have no respect for others or any idea that their behaviour has consequences.

And the no prejudice thing is bollocks...how many people will be saying 'no smaoke without fire'?

Sheer lunacy.

I think this is an excellent (and awful) example as to exactly why teachers are driven to 'no touch' rules, regardless of the madness of the situations that this raises (like sunscrean, putting on plasters etc). It only take one alligation like this to wreck a lifetime's work

just shocking

[mad]

thats shocking... im lost for words

totally discusting..... no wonder no on wants to be a teacher!

Lunacy, I feel so sorry for teachers.

If my son had his armed bruised for that I'd have told him it served himself right. Sheesh. What is the world coming to and what hope is there if parents are this idiotic?

the rules have been too far in the pupils' favour for a long time now. I thought they were changing them?

Yet when my ds1 (sn I ahsten to add but mainstream and with no support) injured a girl so badly that her chest was still badly bruised ten days later when she came back to school, nobody bothered to mention it to me until it came up in conversation accidentally.

Poor man. What else was he supposed to do? Wouldn't the victim's paprents then have been able to complain about false imprisonment? It's no win.

ofgs... as you say 'world gone mad!'

I despair. No wonder there is a national shortage of teachers, and no wonder there is so much anti-PC feeling. With the reaction from the parents as it was, no wonder the boy did what he did - you wonder if he has ever been made to face any consequences. Lets hope the Head is reinstated soon, and sues the parents/authorities or whoever for emotional distress. This is one occasion when I'm all for sueing

This happened to a friend of mine.

A child accused friend of head butting him. Parents blaze into school and demand that friend is suspended and that the police are called in. Head has the sense to calm things down a bit and asks the rest of the kids to write a report of what happened.

Every child in the class bar two (the accuser and his best mate) support the teacher and say that the child head butted the teacher.

Did the parent appologise? no did the school call in the police since the child had asaulted the teacher, no

World gone mad