Teachers who torment children

Until the law is changed in the UK to make it a criminal offence for any member of staff in a school to cover up for bad teachers and all head teachers, school governors and local authority education inspectors are held accountable to report all bad teachers to the GTC or the police; immediately after serious complaints about a bad teacher are made to a school, by parents, students or other teachers etc. Nothing will change in the UK to protect children and young people from continuing biased, abusive and incompetent teaching by bad teachers in schools. Current Government legislation putting onus of responsibility still on the victim i.e. a pupil still in the school or their parents to submit a claim into county court or SENDIST against a school board of governors; if they feel their complaints about a bad teacher have been ignored by the school, have to be submitted within six months minus a day. After first incident of complaint about a bad teacher to the school, the pupil and their family are also first expected to have compiled fully with the schools complaints procedure and agree to attend local Authorities mediation process. When a Head teacher or a school governor may according to the press and our personal experience appear to be more concerned to protect reputation of school by denying or covering-up for bad teacher. Rather than consider the education and emotional welfare of a pupil or future pupils. I suggest, is why bad teachers are able to remain in schools and continue to damage existing and future pupil’s education, that may possibly blight these young students’ future career aspirations.

I know how you feel. I remember in seventh grade so many kids made my life hell. But guess what? The teachers blamed ME, not the bullies. My home room teacher got me in trouble with my dad for shedding a couple of tears when she got the whole class laughing at me. One day she talked about me to the whole class as if I weren't even there, made fun of the pictures I drew to stay sane in that snakepit of a school. Then she wondered why I "had a chip on my shoulder". I hope certain teachers got a taste of the treatment they heaped on me, just to see what it feels like.

respect doesnt have to be earned. respect is due to all human beings no matter how long you have known them.

therefore if a child shows disrespect to a stranger, teacher or peer they always be punished.

it is a nonsense to say teachers are responsible for bringing children- teachers have a whole class to deal with, have a curriculum to teach and have precious little power.

parents are ones the responsible for behaviour - 90% is due to them supporting their children and supporting the school. 10% is down to the school having robust policis and strict, capable teachers. its that simple.

Kwezi, I'm a Bible believer but every time you sin, does God rain down fire and brimstone on you? Do you feel His rod across your behind? Your comment is shallow and you can't accept bullying by teachers as a means to deal with bad behaviour. Read your Bible some more ... God requires that you have wisdom.
Teachers are like the police ... they stick together and despite all of this anti bullying etc, I see that kids have less rights in the way they are treated by an institution they have no option to be in than they are if they're in the workplace.
You have wounded teachers dealing with wounded kids. Doesn't make for a good society in the long-term.
I am so not anti-teacher, but too many of them think their title gives them respect ... it doesn't, they have to earn it and in truth, if they respected themselves more, they wouldn't have so much trouble giving the children they teach some respect too. Sorry if this goes against the grain but out society isn't in such a state purely because of bad parenting ... teachers have our chidren 8 hours a day - in my childs case.
Saying all of that, I LOVE the teachers at my child's school but they do go to a private school ... enough said!

In addition to my comment below I would just like to say that in a way students are like "customer", our parents are paying taxes that are spent on teachers and our education.

I have a part time job, and if I were to do something like this to a customer in work I would fired immediately! Teachers however seem to get away with everything!

I'm being bullied by my teacher at the moment. Everyone in the class says so too but the lies that my teacher tells about me are told to my parents by my head of year and they call me a liar. I feel so lost and I just don't know what to do. There is nothing I can do no one who is a position of power to stop it will ever believe me. Last week she dragged me out of the classroom saying that I had hit her when I had been sat quietly doing my work. Every student in my class is "on my side" saying that I hadn't gone anywhere near her! Tough luck though isn't it!

in england. you are too too soft on your children. it is not a good thing. children need discipline. the bible teaches us that to spare the rod is to spoil the child.

I had a bad teacher when I was 6 she didn't like children and hated me, everything I did in class it was critisied for it. In a parents evening even though my grates were pretty good she said I had reached my learning capability and I had a broken aura ! because was starting to feel depressed so my grates started to slip and she put me in a special needs class learning 1 to 100 with my finger, now because of her I was starting to cry a lot so I was now staring to get bullied by kids in my class, by now my parents had, had enough so they went up to the school and she didn't even say sorry propaly, at the end of the year she had a nerveous breakdown and left the school and 2 years later she was back and I was going to be put back in her class! Again my parents went up to the school and said if I am not mived I would be taken out of the school. Now I have forgiven her becuse I chose to because I just felt sorry for have because no one in the school liked her

You will never win with teachers they all stick together even if they no you are right. The problem is that they don't have a clue about child development or how to care for them socially, emotionally or physically. They don't learn about these aspects of child development when they are getting their licence to teach.(QTS) Unfortunately, all children are not resilient to such bullying by teachers. Parents are putting children in the hands of these so called professional teachers for 6 1/2 hours a day and we shouldn't have to worry about whether the teacher likes them or not. I say stand upto them, the more people who stand upto these bullying cowards the better, it may one day make them think twice about doing it again and we will win!

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?