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seren_dipity:

I've been interviewed and written articles in newspapers (including TES) and a teachers' magazine and spoken at national conferences about violence to staff.  In a union capacity I've helped to formulate policy and develop reporting systems at local and national level.  I've served on H&S committees at council level where one of my specific remits was violence to staff.

...and yet you still see yourself as THE expert.

You silly woman ! That was all in Scotland. You shouldn't have been trying to toss the caber and play bagpipes at the same time, otherwise these brilliant suggestions would work.

You'd understand all this if you were being facilitated properly.

MissedOpportunity:

Meek heads - why can't they be more assertive?

The Head I worked for who allowed pupil atrocities to go on unchecked wasn't in the least meek. He was haughtily arrogant. His blinkers were worn with pride.

His idea of 'sorting' a problem was to temporarily exclude, sometimes the same young person time and time again.

I believe the LEA paid him a handsome amount over the usual salary to keep a lid on a boiling pot. Staff were made to feel it was THEIR fault that kids behaved as they did. It was a clever smoke screen. Not many stayed long enough to suss out what was going on.

In fairness, a good proportion of the school's students would have wreaked havoc in a PRU. There was no where else for them to go...so it was all kept in-house. Turnover of staff was incredible. End of term exodus of staff? No.Teachers left mid-week, some during the course of a day, never to return. So many left at the end of a school year. In September the die-hards - experienced staff who were also getting paid a lot more than the going rate - had to greet a whole new bunch of enthusiastic teachers. Most lost their sparkle and drive by the middle of the first week....and were made to feel THEY were failing. Clever ploy.

seren_dipity:

airy:

Too busy calling the police when a child swears at her, probably.

 

Nah....she's being held to account on the maths forum.  Mincemeat springs to mind!

She's managed to annoy another pile of people from scratch. 

All sorts of amusing quasi-philosophical discussions about what does multiplication mean and so on .......

It's now getting silly. Apparently, I think, the criticisms are part of a right wing conspiracy (this presumably includes seren, airy, curlygirly and all those other arch Thatcherites) and she's going to report my/our existence to her Labour MP contact.

"It was interesting to discuss (as is, of course being discussed on opinion*) that there appears to be a co-ordinated conservative strategy to dominate discussion forums and social media with right wing dogma and to crush both discussions and contributors who may pose a threat to Tory views and so to disable the latter too. Mr Brennan did ask me to email him with more information about this." 

I think Mr Brennan is either humouring her or is a complete berk. I'd go for the former.

*this refers to thread mindful started about there being "lots of extreme right wingers about".