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Teacher suspended. I support the teacher.

steve2005

What do people think of this ?

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/educationnews/8932414/Supply-teacher-suspended-for-giving-pupil-ride-home.html

I support the teacher. The World has gone mad.

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Reply 1

Helpful_Charlie

Closed it down after seeing it was a male teacher. You must know that the law and the board treat male teachers far worse than females when caught in illicit relationships, so why would this be any different? Obviously he had ulterior motives. Obviously.

People will then moan when their child has strict teachers, or teachers afraid of actually interacting with the class for fear of reprisal.

(edited 12 years ago)

Absolute madness.

there must have been a complaint. How else did the office staff know?

Reply 4

USB

Poor lad.

Must feel quite guilty :frown:

Reply 5

Mr Dangermouse

Shocking. Christ I can think of two of my teachers who've given me lifts hone for various reasons.

Reply 6

User414413

Fair enough if it's under-16 but his 17 for ****s sakes. What's the guy going to do to him? A 17 year old isn't a child. And it was a boy.

Reply 7

Jimbo1234

"Giving a lift home" means "ploughed him like a farm" right?

Reply 8

MasterPotatoHead

People always overreact these days. My teacher used to drive me to school every morning in HER car :teehee:

Reply 9

steve2005

Original post by roubiliac

there must have been a complaint. How else did the office staff know?

No, I don't think there was a complaint.

Reply 10

JohnJoe

What has become of humanity.

Reply 11

steve2005

Original post by Jimbo1234

"Giving a lift home" means "ploughed him like a farm" right?

Please don't be silly.

A man has lost his job for doing a good turn. The boy reported he had lost his bus fare so because it was on his way home the teacher gave him a lift. What's wrong with that?

Reply 12

Mr Dangermouse

I gave this first year a couple of quid a few weeks back because he'd lost his bus money(I keep a small emergency fund in my locker.)

Does that mean I should get expelled lmao?

Reply 13

AlmostChicGeek

That is completely stupid! I have been given lifts home by teachers before for various reasons. If the boy is fine with it, what is the problem?

Reply 14

wizzar

Really? there are some bad people in the world yes but does that mean everybody is guilty until proven innocent?

Reply 15

Andy_J

Who reported this? The parents?

Anyway, I dont see the problem. The boy is 17, in sixth form. Old enough to be making up his own mind about who is safe to take a lift home from I think.

Reply 16

Jimbo1234

Original post by steve2005

Please don't be silly.

A man has lost his job for doing a good turn. The boy reported he had lost his bus fare so because it was on his way home the teacher gave him a lift. What's wrong with that?

I was being sarcastic and showing how everything is utterly changed as soon as a man is involved. The man was fired because some liberal idiot somewhere actually thinks that my first post could have been true :facepalm2:

Reply 17

edd360

This says more about people enforcing the rules then anything else.

Its illegal to have a affair with pupils
its therefore illegal to give them a lift home after teaching them (this is the stage we are at now)
its therefore illegal to teach them (where we will be in the future)
its therefore illegal to be a teacher...

Absolute madness. As Will Smith on iRobot said, does thinking your the last sane man on the planet make you crazy? Because if so I think I am.

Reply 18

problemsolver

The teacher seems pretty innocent to me. Did the boy arrive home late or anything? I don't think it said in that article, and I couldn't find anything else on this from a quick google.

Reply 19

steve2005

Original post by Andy_J

Who reported this? The parents?

Anyway, I dont see the problem. The boy is 17, in sixth form. Old enough to be making up his own mind about who is safe to take a lift home from I think.