Schoolkids called ‘kn**head’ and ‘b***end’ as confiscated phone records staff
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Posted by Purple-Win-9790
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Probably acting like cunts and arseholes, they were just being polite
I wonder how the students would feel if their private conversations were recorded without their knowledge?!
Behind closed doors I don’t think it matters. If my daughters have been knobheads I wouldn’t be surprised if they were referred to this way. Context matters, and I’d definitely have an issue if this was in a public/classroom setting or even to their faces.
I bet they’re such little darlings
To be fair, it’s a fairly accurate description for most teenagers…
How many of you moan about customers when they aren’t about?
“Employees share greivance about what the job actually entails, in private with each other” is hardly a headline.
Who cares if they didn’t say it to their face? Teachers don’t have to love every child in their care as long as they don’t treat them differently to others.
As someone with kids in school (both Primary and High School), I also share the same opinion on some of the little ‘darlings’ I see.
I don’t see an issue with it if it’s all private messages. Most people have probably said some nasty things about colleagues in private.
I will bet any money that these words – and worse – are used in staff rooms up and down the country.
Sometimes students are indeed knobheads or bellends.
I can’t imagine anyone working in a customer facing job of any sort who doesn’t vent about the customers in the breakroom. Don’t want people to call your kid a knobhead, don’t raise knobheads.
If “ugh what a bellend” is the opinion of someone who has voluntarily taken a huge lifetime pay cut for education level to stay in a career with 60 hour weeks and an average dropout rate of five years, just imagine the opinion of everyone who *hasn’t* dedicated their career to helping kids. Getting shouty at the teacher isn’t going help the life outcomes of your brat; teaching them to expect social consequences for antisocial behaviour will.
All the time kids will engage in behaviour towards other students and towards staff which, if done on the street to a stranger, would result in police attention. And parents expect a light touch because “they’re a child, what do you expect”, and then a few years later are shocked their no-longer-a-minor child caught a custodial sentence for doing the exact same thing outside the chicken shop.
Omg do you know what? Who cares? They did it in private, they’re not saying it to the kids and let’s be honest teenagers mostly are knobheads and bellends
Teachers are humans. Teenagers are often actual pains in the arse. I bet the parents have also thought the exact same thing about their own kids at times. Teachers need to be able to decompress and as long as they are professional and maintain authority in front of the kids, I don’t blame them decompressing in private.
So lesson learned. Place confiscated phones in a sound proof box.
God forbid the pearl clutchers ever hear what the kids say.
I call my clients and customers similar things all the time in the office.. it’s all a coping mechanism for the shit they put me through.
For teachers, more so than anyone else based on the shit they have to deal with, it’s understandable that they need to vent to their peers.
These are conversations that happened behind closed doors and only came to light because there was a recording app running on the phone… Which is knobhead behaviour, why are we censoring private conversation now?
Seems they could have said, that mark kid is terribly rude and disruptive and ignores me when I try to get him to behave.
In private, I’m sure knobhead is just shorthand.
I’d be more concerned if they were calling kids thick.
I really can’t see the issue here lol. Well, apart from the fact they were illegally recorded. If teachers have no safe places to vent about the little shits they have to teach, how are they gonna last long enough to not just end up murdering the lot of them?
And I say this as someone who was most definitely referred to as one of the disappointing ones when I was in school.
The break room, the water cooler, the pub after work etc are all places where someone can go to have a right old moan about shitty aspects of their job. Just enough to get some confirmation from their coworkers that, no, they aren’t going mad, and X really is a knob head.
This happens millions of times across the workday everyday, and the only reason this has made the news is because it happens to be a job whose primary antagonist is about 14 years old, sweaty, horny, and full of vitriol
They almost certainly were being…
I was a school kid once and I reckon I firmly fell in the knobhead and/or bellend category and I’d be concerned if my teachers hadn’t come to that assessment.
>He said a child’s phone captured a private conversation between ‘a small numbers of staff members’ after it was confiscated. It is thought an audio recording app was running when the device was taken from the student and continued recording.
Bright future for that kid in the security services I reckon.
Back in the day when I was at school. When you went from being an infant a junior (ages 4-11) you suddenly went from being treat like a kid to being treat like an adult. Ages 11-16 were different. The teaches respected you as long as you respected them. And if you made insulted teaches in jest, you’d get it back double barrelled. You learned quickly but now the teacher will be hung drawn and quartered. Cos the little cock wombles can only cry on when they are cornered by staff
Is this really newsworthy? I applaud the teacher’s restraint.
I’m sure they are all lovely promising future footballers.
So the student secretly recorded private conversations without consent or knowledge. What a knobhead that student is
If I was the parent here I’d be far more concerned that I’d potentially facilitated the illegal recording inside a staff member’s office of safeguarded information about other people’s children.
Ah the MEN, what a fucking pile of shite that “news” site is. It’s dropped all pretence of reporting and gone all in for the rage bait bullshit.
So they said what they felt about other people to colleagues in a private space. What’s the issue here? We can say what we like about what we think about someone in private. It’s not defamation level. So if they don’t like it don’t listen to recordings of private conversations that you shouldn’t have. I’m not a fan of all the “world’s gone soft” stuff but it is bordering on thought police nonsense to make an issue out of this.
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