‘I was hit, kicked, bitten and sworn at by pupils’

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1. This is a parental issue that’s widespread now.

   Parents view schools as babysitters and a substitute for doing parenting themselves. This is the outcome.

2. Are you telling me people should teach their kids manners and respect and on top of that some accountability?? Poposturus

   I can see some teaching being moved to online courses only if teachers are treated this poorly.

3. We’re seeing an article like this pretty much every day on this sub now.

   What comes out of this article particularly is that Teaching/classroom assistants are generally used as babysitters for the most violent children in schools despite being minimum wage staff.

   In fact many earn less than minimum wage – they “earn” wages for every hour they work during term time, but are “paid” a flat monthly salary based on the minimum wage. If they hand in their notice at the wrong time, i.e. just before the summer holidays, they will have earned less than the minimum wage prorata over that school year.

   My wife quit a teaching assistant job recently, the local authority refused her notice letter because it was the school holidays. The LA is the employer, but they said they couldn’t accept the notice if there was no-one in the school to fill out a “leavers form”.

   They said she had 2 choices, hand in your notice 4 weeks before the end of term and lose the summer wages, or hand in your notice on the first day of term after the summer and work the first 4 weeks of that term.

4. I went to see a Father’s Day service at the church my kids school is affiliated to. For once, I got half decent seats near the front. I was close to the year 2 class, and in it was a lad (nothing wrong with him to my mind, just behavioural, who had the whole warning sign “I’m a wrong’un” ear defenders on) who spent the whole time kicking fuck out of the TA who shushed him and reassured him the whole time. His Mother was sat about 5 yards away in a Benidorm chariot ignoring the whole thing. I couldn’t help thinking a good swift smacked arse and dressing down in front of everyone, or even just the threat of it, would both solve the issue and change the entire course of that boy’s life.