What a great way for this teacher to say goodbye to teaching! Not bad for a 60-year-old!
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I couldn’t agree more!
A University of Queensland health expert has labelled the practice of inspecting children’s lunchboxes at school as both “perverse” and unlikely to improve children’s health.
Associate Professor Michael Gard of the School of Human Movement and Nutrition Sciences said hysteria about childhood obesity was fuelling a range of school-based practices that infringed the rights of parents to choose how they raise and care for children.
“Panic around obesity appears to trump all other concerns in the current climate,” Dr Gard said.
“Despite quite well-known data that Australian rates of childhood obesity have changed very little over the last 15 to 20 years, this is an issue that still tends to be discussed in breathlessly apocalyptic terms.
“Yes, too many children are overweight, but the hysteria we have created is out of proportion to the problem.
“As a result, we now have a kind of Wild West situation in which some schools, often with the best of intentions, have decided to take matters into their own hands.
“In this environment, the lunchbox inspection appears to have become a quite ‘normal’ and acceptable practice.”
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This is a lesson to all graduating classes that even a seemingly mild prank can lead to life changing consequences:
A group of teenagers accused of releasing more than 70,000 ladybirds in a US high school as a graduation prank have been taught a tough lesson.
The seven males are now facing criminal charges following their alleged stunt at Chopticon High School in Morganza, Maryland, last week, police say.
The St Mary’s County Sheriff’s Office said in a statement that students arrived at the high school on May 20 to find thousands of ladybirds (called ladybugs in the US) swarming through the hallways.
“I saw one ladybug just pass me, and then, all of a sudden, there was like 1000,” a student, Trinity Alexander, told Fox 5.
An investigation revealed that, about 3.40am that day, five people who had concealed their identities with masks and hooded jumpers forced open a door at the high school, while two others waited in a getaway car.
Fox 5 reported that six of the group were students, who were were graduating this year, and one was a former student.
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Wow! I have one student with limited English and find it challenging. This makes me feel much better about my situation:
THIS is the incredible UK primary school where every one of the 859 pupils has English as their SECOND language.
Yet, despite the expected linguistic nightmare and the issue of being in an area at the centre of the ‘Trojan Horse extremism scandal, Greet Primary School in Sparkhill, Birmingham has been rated ‘outstanding’ by Ofsted inspectors.
There is also a waiting list to get into every year group.
Joint headteacher Emma Tyler said: “While the majority of our pupils arrive with little to no English, it’s our mission to seek achievement for all.
“We’re a school for the community and so everyone, staff, pupils and parents, works really hard to make the school what it is.”takes 161 staff and 35 volunteers to help children go from no spoken english or limited skills to reach ‘broadly average standards’ according to Ofsted.
It’s also served by an executive headteacher Pat Smart who oversees not just Greet but Conway Primary – a school previously in special measures that has improved to good since Greet took it under its wing.
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Some championed the incarcerated Forrest as a victim of consensual love between a teacher and his teenage student. I ask those supporters, now that his intention to continue teaching abroad has come to light, would you want him teaching your child?:
Paedophile Jeremy Forrest is planning to move to Thailand where he hopes to take back up work as a teacher, it has been claimed.
The 32-year-old was jailed in 2013 after running away to France with a 15-year-old schoolgirl, sparking an international manhunt.
After serving two years of his five-and-a-half year sentence, the paedophile from Lewes, Sussex, could be released later this summer.
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A wonderful gesture. I hope it has just as much impact on the teaser than it has on her teased student:
Teachers routinely go above and beyond expectations. They arrive at school early, stay late and often pay for supplies from their own pocket book, among many other things. But few would let their students shave their heads.
On Monday, Tori Nelson struck a deal with one of her fourth-grade students in Winlock, Washington: He could shear off her short, blonde locks but only if he would take off his hat, which the school prohibited, and finally come to class.
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I am not sure you can get any positive message out of barbarism:
A teacher decided to give his pupils an extracirrcular lesson recently, by allegedly eating a live hamster in front of them.
Police are investigating the teacher, identified only as Yu, who reportedly gave the little rodent his grisly end to show the pupils in his South Korean classroom ‘how dear life is’.
The class he was teaching at a boarding school in Jeongeup, North Jeolla Province were reportedly teasing hamsters, causing him to take the drastic (and, let’s be honest, over the top) method of teaching them a lesson.
Yu is also accused of using abusive language in front of the seven children who claim to have witnessed the gruesome act.
He has since left the school following complaints from several parents and other members of staff.
Some parents have filed a complaint with the police, claiming that Yu’s actions were a form of child abuse.
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As discussed before, it is very hard to stop a student fight effectively. On one hand you cannot pin the arms of an aggressive student and on the other you can’t allow a fight to continue without making every effort to put a stop to it.
However, one doesn’t need to be an expert to work out that this isn’t the right way of going about it:
This video shows the shocking moment that a schoolteacher took off his belt and started whipping a group of pupils to stop them fighting.
In the brutal footage, which was posted on LiveLeak, a group of children can be heard screaming as the teacher rushes over and starts to whip the boys with his belt.
And as nervous pupils rush out of the way, one can be seen peering at the camera with a terrified look on her face.
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One of my university professors did the very same thing, and I count it as one one of the most inspiring things I encountered at Uni:
With one simple gesture, Hebrew University Professor Sydney Engelberg became an champion for parents pursuing higher education.
On May 11, Engelberg’s daughter Sarit Fishbaine shared a photo on Facebook that shows her father holding a baby while conducting a lecture. She explains in the caption that during her father’s organizational behavior class, a student’s baby began to cry, and when the mother got up to leave, Engelberg didn’t hesitate to take the infant into his arms and soothe it. He then “continued the class as if nothing had happened,” she wrote.
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Firing a good teacher for one act of so-called “public humiliation” doesn’t seem particularly fair. It is very difficult to tame a student who is actively making the lives of other students unbearable. Whilst I wouldn’t have tackled the problem in that way, I hardly see it as a sackable offense:
A beloved Ohio elementary school teacher has been fired for ‘public humiliation’ after she said she asked a child to consider how his bullying was affecting his peers.
Nicole LeMire approached the boy last month after she said she learned he was blowing mucus on other children, using inappropriate language and had pushed another boy to the ground.
LeMire said she merely asked the boy ‘Do you know how your actions and your words are hurting other students and your friends?’ she told NBC 4i.
She was placed on paid administrative leave at Glen Oak Elementary School, in Delaware County, just days later and was told she was under investigation for ‘publicly humiliating’ a student.
LeMire was fired with a 3-1 vote on Thursday at an Olentangy Schools board meeting that was packed with her supporters.
The board’s official resolution claimed that LeMire had asked her class to take turns discussing how the student in question, referred to as ‘Student A’, had ‘acted badly, violated rules, or insulted them, and/or why Student A was annoying or had no friends’.
‘Ms LeMire required Student A to listen to classmates’ complaints and refused to allow him to respond or defend himself against potentially embellished complaints’, the resolution said.
During the three-hour board meeting a number of fellow teachers and students, past and present, spoke in defense of LeMire, who has been teaching for 14 years.
Marsha Seymour, LeMire’s friend and colleague, called her a ‘natural-born educator’.
‘She truly has the child’s best interest in mind, no matter what,’ she said.
One student said LeMire was ‘the most impactful teacher that I’ve had’.
After the vote was announced many students, and even parents, were left in tears.
One father yelled at the board, ‘You are fired. Every one of you’, while a mother comforted her daughter with a kiss on the head.
Another mother screamed at the board, ‘You won’t even support the good teachers, that’s disgusting. I’m embarrassed to live in this district.’
LeMire said she has hired a lawyer and plans to pursue legal action.
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