What;s next?!?!?
news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/education/7791461.stm

This cannot be a serious story! How can you seriously expect to police people in their private lives?

Teachers are role models but at the same time a one off incident that maynot be the teachers fault could lead to dismissal???

How stupid is that?
(Fuckarma was masturbating into your handbag, Fri 19 Dec 2008, 13:20, 14 replies, latest was 16 years ago)

I find it very hard to get excited about this story
while the current heroes genocide is going on
(PsychoChomp, Fri 19 Dec 2008, 13:21, Reply)

Phew
They said we can't get drunk and start fights.
They said nothing about getting drunk and passing out in the street.

*wipes brow*
( Mellicious is made of candy, Fri 19 Dec 2008, 13:43, Reply)

I used to work in a school
and at least 50% of the teachers were recreational drug users and made little secret of it to other staff. Now they all have facebook accounts with pictures of themselves wasted and partying on and the kids add them as friends.

Ban this sick filth etc.
( Peej, Fri 19 Dec 2008, 13:44, Reply)

many moons ago
..I had a teacher friend who was on a probationary period at a new school. During her interview for the job she was asked if she smoked. No she didn't she had given up the previuos month.

About 3 months into her job, after a very stressful week, she had a cigarette whilst having a drink with me in the evening. She was spotted smoking (behind the bike sheds) by another teacher who reported her. She was fired (well she failed her probation) on the following Monday cos she had "lied" during the interview.

Still feel guilty about this as it was I who pressed the ciggie onto her.

*meh*
(bugboybeast, Fri 19 Dec 2008, 13:55, Reply)

It's getting like America...
How the fuck do your employers have any right to dictate what you do in your private life?

I could go home and shoot up smack every night (I don't, by the way), but as long as I came to work every day and got my job done, what would it have to do with my employers?
(Son of Sam-i-am We're all as mad as hatters here, Fri 19 Dec 2008, 14:02, Reply)

I've had a lot of friends who are teachers.
All sex-mad drug taking hedonists the lot of them, and If I had any kids I would have no qualms letting them teach them. Better to have people who have lived full and interesting lives near the young than staid, uppity, righteous, boring cunts.
( girlinthehole, Fri 19 Dec 2008, 14:06, Reply)

Well said BGB!

(Son of Sam-i-am We're all as mad as hatters here, Fri 19 Dec 2008, 14:09, Reply)

right on BGB
who wants a boring, rule following twat for a teacher

teaching isn't just about getting the kids to learn the curriculum. or it shouldn't be anyway!
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Fri 19 Dec 2008, 14:46, Reply)

The curriculum is entirely irrelevant
I'm strongly of the opinion that the only thing of any use you learn in school is how to relate to other human beings. Teachers with a rounded personality (i.e. some life experience!) are in a much better position to teach you this.
(Son of Sam-i-am We're all as mad as hatters here, Fri 19 Dec 2008, 14:49, Reply)

they want them to follow 'work rules' 24 hours a day
then they'd better pay them 24 hours a day. or at least an on-call rate

their free time's their own. unless they're breaking the law or doing something that directly affects their work, it's no one else's business
( plentyofants more ghee, vicar?, Fri 19 Dec 2008, 14:52, Reply)

Another "Government Initiative"
Works like this:

1) Impose "tough targets"
2) Reclassify targets to make statistics look better
3) Employ Labour voting single mother with an IQ of six at a ridiculous salary as a "consultant"
4) Impose more "tough targets"

Repeat.

Wonder why taxpayers money is being spunked
(Bicycle Repairman "you're also a bit of a wanker", Fri 19 Dec 2008, 14:55, Reply)

to be fair to 'the government'
it was proposed by the gtce, the professional body for teachers, who presumably have some measure of independence from the day-to-day whims of labour party policy initiatives

still, it's a very bad idea, which will hopefully will get dropped after their consultation period
( plentyofants more ghee, vicar?, Fri 19 Dec 2008, 15:04, Reply)

If
it doesn't I reckon teaching will be in a much worse state than it already is, there will definitely be a recruitment problem and as stated above, very few teachers who have decent life experience...
(Fuckarma was masturbating into your handbag, Fri 19 Dec 2008, 15:10, Reply)

Shouldn't they be more worried
about the kids being bad influences on the teachers?
( Mellicious is made of candy, Fri 19 Dec 2008, 15:14, Reply)