BBC NEWS | UK | Heads 'ignore bullied teachers' via kwout
The unfortunate and saddening thing about this is that it is entirely unsurprising.For some Headteachers it is obvious that the image of their school is far more important to them than the welfare of those who work and learn in them. There are teachers around the whole country who have to stand in front of pupils who have bullied and insulted them with no reprisal, because of a fear of how the school will look.
SURELY PARENTS NEED TO KNOW WHAT KIND OF SCHOOL THEY ARE SENDING THEIR KIDS TO EVERY DAY.
Teachers are facing increasing pressures from all sides. From "leadership" (in speech marks because the kind of leadership that allows this to happen is not worthy of the name) to improve grades in league tables, from parents who believe a teacher is a actually a surrogate for themselves and from kids in the form of insolence and lack of respect.
Heads want their school to look good and the children to achieve. Who are facilitators of achievement? The Teachers. If assaults and insults to teachers go unpunished, you are going to get demotivated teachers and the whole thing will spiral downwards. However a strong show of leadership will give a message to the minority perpetrators of such attacks and the whole school will see the benefits.
Or I am just being naive?
On the other side of the coin, teachers suffering these kind of attacks need to be stronger. See your union rep (if indeed you are in a union.) You can't get the sack for approaching your union representatives. Follow the discipline system in school to the absolute letter.
I would like to know that now the NAHT has come out and said this, what is it going to do?
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