My child was hit by a pen, thrown by a teacher

[Tiredallthetimelaura]

So my daughter who is in year 8 was in a lesson when her teacher 'cold called' her a question. My daughter responded she didn't know the answer and the teacher then threw a highlighter pen at her, hitting her on the arm. The teacher then did it again to another student, also hitting them on the arm. We have reached level 2 of a complaint, but it's always investigated by management within the academy. The school keep down playing what happened and not investigating what we ask. This teacher is still teaching, although my daughter isn't going in on the day of that lesson, which is greatly affecting her attendance. The school said they would move my daughter so she could do a different lesson (double Maths or double English), but we said no! This feels like a punishment to our daughter. She wants to do that lesson, just not with that teacher... and we agree.
Any advice on what/how the school legally should be handling this? Happy to answer any further questions Xx

Ohhh here's pollyglot again! Getting things wrong again! Mocking a child again! Don't think you ever did answer my question about are you a teacher? Are you?
Who said it was lightly tossed? Not me!
Mocking that it was thrown in a Frisbee manner... if it was intended to be caught, it would have been thrown like a ball. I'm trying to make this really simple for you, because... well.... you don't seem to be understanding.
So, if it didn't hurt her it doesn't count? Because it was a highlighter pen it doesn't count? Because she didn't know the answer to a question she'd not yet been taught, she deserved it? Because she expects to go to class and not have things thrown at her, she's not resilient.
I'm not the one with the problem here. If you don't agree that's fine - but stop making stuff up! Lying really shows your character!

I agree. In fact I think the OP should try and see if she can get the phone number of the Prime Minister. At the very least a full enquiry ior Cobra meeting should be called. .

I am a bit bemused by the idea that someone could only know the answer to something if they’ve explicitly been taught it in a lesson. Surely kids learn things outside of school too?

Thank god the OP is not over-reacting 😂

Some people just don't get it. It doesn't matter what size the pen was or how fast it travelled. Nobody is allowed to do this to anyone else. I expect teachers to set examples and this is not a good example to set. Problem with lots of people today, they try to pick and choose what parts of the law they would like to obay and when asked about their actions, refer to their childhood or incidents that happened years ago to justify their actions or the response to incidents. Teachers are responsible for safeguarding of children in a school setting so why does anyone think that adults throwing things at children fits in with that. Its an abuse of power, it demonstrates contempt for their safeguarding responsibilities, its irresponsible and any person in charge of a group of young people has no business being in a classroom if they can't accept these responsibilities. For those of you trivialising this, no amount of sarcasm or mocking can make it something it's not. This behaviour by the teacher needs to be addressed before it escalates. Next time a pupil may.not be so lucky as to escape injury.

Agreed. I think we should all petition the government to detain and arrest this epidemic of violence we experience every day that goes completely unnoticed. The law is the kw. I am talking about children in a playground. Constant pushing, shoving, kicking when going by someone on a swing and worst of all parents who just say it’s kids being kids. This just needs to stop.

😂

This.

What is blues music?
Sorry we don't play much blues in our home! Can't say it's been a big topic of discussion at our house. But of course, that's not really your issue... your just looking to try and come in with a snarky comment.
She's 13, get a grip!

How do you know no one was traumatised? Surely you can only speak for yourself?

Still didn't answer my question. I wonder why? 🤔

You haven’t answered numerous posters including myself to confirm if the only satisfactory outcome for this, in your opinion, is her dismissal? You also haven’t advised what youd need to consider this resolved?

you seem to be loving the argument at this point. Teacher made a mistake. Has she apologised? If yes move on! If no, will an apology suffice? If so ask for it.

doesn’t seem difficult

You have continually dodged the question about look it whether you are wanting the teacher to get fired or not. It's a very simple question.

I do hope as she gets older she learns to not be so traumatised by things like this as there will be worse things in life to deal with and a little resilience is definitely worth having.

You haven't answered the question lots of people have asked – what do you want the outcome of your complaint to be?

I actually haven't avoided anything! I've answered beyond multiple times that I came here for sensible advice as to where others think this should go. Advice from current qualified teachers!
You think I'm sticking around for the argument? You think I enjoy hearing grown women pull apart me and especially my daughter? Come on now!

What are you sticking around for?

I've not dodged that question, like I've said, I don't know what should happen to her because of HER actions towards my CHILD. So I came here for advice

But you must have an idea! What outcome is going to satisfy you enough to consider the matter concluded and get your daughter back to school full time?

Would you like the teacher to lose her job?

And yet you still haven’t answered 🤣🤣 the advice has been take an apology and move on. You don’t want to do that. Clearly

do you want her to be sacked? Is that what you’re gunning for?

I haven’t pulled your daughter apart but you’re constantly are you a teacher, are you a teacher but don’t answer when people ask you, what do YOU want to resolve this.

We've never used the word Traumatised... try again

And the advice is that you should aim for an apology from the teacher and to get your DD back into her lessons as soon as possible.

Are you going to take that advice?

Ermmm because its my post!
Sensible advice!
Maybe the better question here is, why are you still here? 🤔

You may be right discipline and knowing right from wrong has to start somewhere. Oh wait, that's flawed logic as there's no punishment for bad behave for a lot of children these days. Its just excused as kids being kids or trivialised to downplay any possible outcomes because generally speaking, people don't like dealing with such issues.. Is it any wonder Britain is classed as lawless in some areas? All we do by excusing bad behaviour is to give it carte blanche to get worse...and then everyone moans about it. Change has to start somewhere, setting a positive example in the classroom for a child that doesn't have that outside of school goes a long way.

You’ve had plenty of sensible advice, but none of it appears to be satisfactory to you. Genuinely, do you want the teacher to lose her job?