Children asked to 'Spy' on their Teachers

No1Doyen


Joined: 04/07/2008
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Message Posted:
05/04/2010 15:07

Children as young as 11 have been issued with iPhones to give an instant rating on their teachers. They are being encouraged to email 'spy' messages to senior staff during lessons.



The move is part of a government 'pupil power' drive which is being blamed for duelling a 'crisis of adult authority'



It is just one in a disturbing catalogue of examples produced at the weekend of teachers authority being undermined.

Jeannie


Joined: 04/08/2009
Posts: 3283

Message Posted:
05/04/2010 17:45

Bill, please tell me this is a belated April Fool joke. Pleeeeeeeeeeeease!



J

No1Doyen


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Message Posted:
05/04/2010 18:08

No Jean. It was in the news today.

Jeannie


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Message Posted:
05/04/2010 18:20

Proof, if proof were needed, that Great Britain has gone completely barking mad.



What, pray, is a "crisis of adult authority" when it's at home?

Earlybird


Joined: 28/04/2009
Posts: 816

Message Posted:
05/04/2010 18:30

'A Teachers lot is not a happy one' and seems is getting worse!

Jeannie


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Posts: 3283

Message Posted:
05/04/2010 18:34

Why anyone would choose to take up teaching in this day and age is a mystery to me, that's for sure.

cooper


Joined: 23/10/2007
Posts: 3386

Message Posted:
05/04/2010 18:43

Article here - http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1263581/An-iPhone-spy-teacher-Pupils-told-email-secret-verdicts-staff-DURING-lessons.html

No1Doyen


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Posts: 16617

Message Posted:
05/04/2010 18:56

Thanks for the link cooper.

lovingcyprus


Joined: 02/03/2007
Posts: 1272

Message Posted:
05/04/2010 19:20

This is another of the mad things that our pathetic Labour clowns have foisted on us.

Lilli



Joined: 21/07/2008
Posts: 13081

Message Posted:
05/04/2010 20:28

God turning kids into a nation of spys what ever next, that government must have more money than sense xx

No1Doyen


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Message Posted:
05/04/2010 20:32

I suppose the kids will be allowed to pick their teachers next!

Lilli



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Message Posted:
05/04/2010 20:33

i guess so bill, the poor teachers must live in fear x

MickSturbs


Joined: 23/12/2009
Posts: 110

Message Posted:
05/04/2010 21:36

Hi Liz, apparently daughter here says that kids already are put on a panel and ask teachers questions while on the interview. Also show the teacher around the school and asks further questions. Must be the reason why she has chosen to leave the YUK system and gone to Sweden.

No1Doyen


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Posts: 16617

Message Posted:
05/04/2010 21:40

There'll be many more leaving if it carries on like this.

Lilli



Joined: 21/07/2008
Posts: 13081

Message Posted:
05/04/2010 21:50

Hi Rachel, I can totally understand, one of my daughters is a teacher and the threats etc she gets from the kids if she try to disclipine, In her words the kids rule the teachers now and PC makes it very difficult for them xx Bill I wish my daughter would leave the profession x

No1Doyen


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Message Posted:
05/04/2010 21:51

Schoolchildren need discipline and to be taught respect.

Snaefell



Joined: 07/06/2009
Posts: 266

Message Posted:
06/04/2010 00:31

I took early retirement from teaching last year and although I miss the children I am so glad that I made that decision.

darkeyes


Joined: 20/10/2008
Posts: 54

Message Posted:
06/04/2010 19:59

Respect cannot be taught, there are no rules or guidelines on who exactly deserves respect. Teachers are there to teach a curriculum, not to try and instill their own values in children.

measey


Joined: 07/02/2009
Posts: 1037

Message Posted:
06/04/2010 20:19

No 1 . Quite right.



Measey.