 curlygirly:Over the last few years I've poste. On here, I've supported numerous colleagues with behaviour issues, career development, management problems, I've posted action plans to literally hundreds of heads, offered advice and been a listening ear to plenty through pms. I've also received plenty of support and advice in return. What I've never done is pretend that I know the answers to everyone's problems because I'm an expert facilitator. On this forum, as in life, you earn respect by what you post, not by telling everyone how marvellous you are.
This is a bit rich. For a number of months you stocked every post I made, tagging each and every one with a 'You don't know what your talking about and your rubbish etc'. with little reverence to the topic other than to comment what great a head you are, and what a wonderful primary school you have created so no one else should have problems in these areas. I am sure you considered I deserved this and that you were right to behave in this odd way, but really you should have countered the arguments not the person. As regards this topic. well as I recall I was a bit surprised at the speed of reaction to Becka initial posts, and even more surprised at the speed of the insults flying. Clearly something unusual was going and I stood well out of it. Sure Becka comes over a partonising and I can guess why many educationists would start to bark at that, since their quite fond of a similar approach. Is it a big crime, hardly. The impression I got was of apes fighting for dominance because of a new kid in town. Very childish. Seriously whatever someone says on these forums or others like it, there is never any need to resort to insults. As soon as you do, you lose the argument, and beating the chest to reaffirm dominance is hardly impressiive. Clearly this is learnt behaviour that works in a school environment but on a forum it's pretty silly. Prehaps wha is lacking in these forums is an 'Ignore the poster' button. I would certianly have had cause to use it where one person was concerned, and in reading this thread I am sure others could make use of such a feature. Ofc this would undermine any Alpha-Male grouping(s) that exist within the various forums. {BTW if such a feature does exist please indicate where} As for professionism, well I strongly think this can also be used as technique to keep people in their place and a stock answer to how things are, rather than an explanation of why. Questioning anything in this area seems to met with a blank wall, as if undermining accepted practice would cause the whole house of cards to fall. There is much that goes for 'professionism' in education and could quite easliy be interpretated as self-interest.
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