Teachers who torment children

yeah, similar thing is happenin to me but i'm able to stand up for myself and not take it to heart. where i'm from, if someone treated me the way sum of my teachers are, I would punch them. it's the fact that theyre teachers with that authority, you cant do much. and who would they beleive, an expeienced qualified teacher, or a youth from an ethnic minority background from a tough neighbourhood? I learnt to deal wiv it as the only alternative is to move to another class to which the pupils are imature and I wouldnt be able to learn. Both my history teacher, and english teacher are prejudiced against me and may even be racist-i don't know. but it's good to inform parents and let the teachers know you don't get scared when they give out threats. bullying is a sign of their insecurities and they abuse their authority. don't take it to heart, and don't be afraid to speak against them as the worst thing is your parents will come in and if you have already informed your parents there'll be nothing to worry about. taking your life isnt worth it wen you can stop it and it's not your fault. be strong

Very touching story.I can totally understand, I was given a hard time at school by teachers/pupil. Teachers are very patronising.I fell in love with a teacher and he treated me like a pig.

My RM Teacher made me do everything for this girl in my class who he knew out of school. she treated me like a piece of s**t. it was really depressing to have to slave over her in my classes. I got so annoyed I kicked a desk in his classroom, he sent me out and said I have no friends, I never will have any friends, and no one likes me. but the thing is he only did it to me so no one belived me and there is no way I can prove it happened but I cant help thinking, is he right?

Could the admin please remove that name from the previous post- Thankyou

To Mitch.
I have dealt with probably over a thousand incidents in my career at various schools. Often involving warring students or parents over an incident at school. Seldom does the situation resolve itself where both sets of parents are happy. Normally one or both sides accuse the school of favouring the other. Its normal I suppose for every dispute.

What I would say is that schools have no motive in siding with one particular family. They try and be fair and even handed and take all the factors into account. Simply put they were there and you werent, they will have interveiwed all the staff and kids who were witnesses and have years of experience dealing with incidents. I know its hard but try to trust them. They are trying their best I'm sure.

I read your article as my son is going through similar, he is at high school (1st year) & he reported getting head butted by a boy, the teacher has turned the table round & blamed my son, she is forgetting he had a visible injury to the head. Today she gave him a detention because I rang & complained, school is horrible, teachers need to stand back & have a good look at the way they handle things. This teacher is Mrs Scott from Abington High School. God help anyone who crosses her !!!!

This year my son has a wonderful teacher. However, he has a bad Principal. Just the other day I was signing my son back into school after taking him out for lunch. The Principal stormed out of her office and told me "Hey momma, if this happens again this won't be happening at all." I said "what won't be happening?" The Principal said "Picking him up for Lunch."
Now someone tell me where this woman got off telling me that I was not allowed to pick my son up for Lunch. Not only that but the first week of school I walked in on the whole upper administration staff making bets as to what parents would be late picking up their kids..

If you are genuinly concerned about bullying in any form at school then get evidence of it yourself. A very small digital video camera (£32) or even voice recorders (£12) can be be bought on ebay. Tell your child it must run ALL day (or don't tell them its there) and you will soon have the truth either way. Problem solved in just a few days ! - and a lot easier to resolve!

Like so many other issues and gripes in the world today bullying and bad teaching is constantly protected by the "his word against hers" mentality. Common sense says CCTV in every classroom should elliviate this issue so why don't we use them ?
According to the Association of Teachers and Lecturers the use of CCTV "puts teachers' ability to work independently at risk" urm . . i'm not convinced thats a good answer !

Kit, Sauce for the Goose is just a trouble maker and as such is best ignored.

To unhappy mum. First of all try to be impartial. You love your daughter dearly so I understand you feel powerful emotions here but its very important for your daughters education how you handle the next few months. Your daughter may be giving you a 100% accurate portrail of events BUT you must also be open to the idea tha she may be either exagerating or even lying about the circumstances. Please also be careful about beleiving her friends or school gossip. I have had a lot of exoerience in these situations and sometimes I have uncovered less than satisfactory practice from staff but usually its about a child not getting their own way and then havign a long standing grudge. Obviously you are not in the classroom so you only get one side of the story. Perhaps a phone call to the teacher just to talk about progress generally. Be super pollite and dont reference 'being picked on' or 'ridicule' or any thing critical. Just establish a relationship. then ask the teacher if you could call back in 2 weeks to check on your daughters behaviour and progress- give the teacher the impression you are monitoring your daughter not the teacher. Then tell your daughter you had a friendly chat with her teacher and in 2 weeks time you will have another chat about her progress. Dont discuss any other issues with daughter just leave the topic as it stands. Then please report here how it goes- this is a tactic I have used hundreds of times in the past and I would say it works maybe 90 % of the time. Good luck. ps the maths questions may have been 'speed marked' due to excessive workloads- it sounds like an excuse I know but it does happen even with the best teachers- keep an eye on the maths books but dont complain about that - its not the critical issue here

my child is getting picked on by her teacher,she ridicules her in front of her peers,she makes them put hands up who doesnt like her,she never listens to her side of any story,if any other child trys to stick up for her they are told to stay out of it.i have been to the school on many occasions to be shunned away.yesterday I checked my daughters homework to find 4 arithmatic questions wrong that were marked correct,a disgrace I thought there were 20 sums for aprimary 4 so there is no excuse,that same day that I put a polite letter to correct them my daughter was singled out by her and humiliated a coincidence!! what do you think?

Sauce for the Goose just advocated the rape of child. I don't know if the gripe administrators don't know what "rogering" means or maybe they don't care.

I do wonder what admin are doing sometimes; they won't allow someone to use the word b**ch, the correct word for a female dog, on a thread about dogs but they allow someone to advocate paedophilia.