Don't call a pupil stupid!

The following actually happened, in  school in Oxford.

The class were paying little attention. There were only 8 in the class but clearly some were just here to play.

Two of them decided to make paper planes and throw them across the room.

The teacher - understandably - was annoyed by this and told them to stop.

She also called them 'stupid'.

Whoops!

In every single class there are notices telling the students how they can complain.

The two throwing the planes didn't like being called 'stupid' so they complained - formally.

The teacher was then interviewed by the Academic Director.

The teacher was then told that the bad behaviour in the class was her fault and that no other teacher has complained. (Which is a lie because I have, for a start.)

The teacher hands in her notice this week.

Here is an extract:

" I had always been under the impression that my job was to prepare students for university where, I believe, courteous behaviour is expected and in many universities there is a minimum attendance regulation. I was wrong. If I had known before, that attendance was NOT a prerequisite for being allowed to take an exam (as it was at XXXXXX when I taught there) I would not have accepted the post.Instead I am a child minder where the slightest attempt to make students work hard is immediately followed by complaints."

Comments

[oldandrew]

The teacher shouldn't have called them stupid, but it is clearly a minor error, not something woh being remotely fussed about. I wonder what would have happened if the kids had called the teacher stupid.