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My initial reaction, on hearing this story, was also of disbelief. I was listening to the story on the radio with a friend who, as it happens is also a CDT teacher.
At the end of the report, I retracted my "disbelief" after hearing that the teacher a) continued with his sledging activity against colleagues advice, and b) lied to the headteacher afterwards, when discussing the incident.
My friends reaction was very much in support of the action taken on similar and additional grounds.
1) If the teacher wanted to demonstrate sledging techniques and was unable to find a similar but different way to illustrate his point, especially after receiving advice, then he's not much of a teacher.
2) It would not have been that important in the syllabus anyway, especially against colleagues advice.
3)) if he lied to the headteacher, then he must have been aware that there was something he felt he needed to hide.
Edit: Another point, he had not received or sought prior parental approval for the activity. As was suggested to me, it would have been seen as an extra-curricular activity requiring parental approval.
If he had just apologised, recognised that he hadn't acted with due dilligence he would have walked away with a slapped wrist.
At the end of the report, I retracted my "disbelief" after hearing that the teacher a) continued with his sledging activity against colleagues advice, and b) lied to the headteacher afterwards, when discussing the incident.
My friends reaction was very much in support of the action taken on similar and additional grounds.
1) If the teacher wanted to demonstrate sledging techniques and was unable to find a similar but different way to illustrate his point, especially after receiving advice, then he's not much of a teacher.
2) It would not have been that important in the syllabus anyway, especially against colleagues advice.
3)) if he lied to the headteacher, then he must have been aware that there was something he felt he needed to hide.
Edit: Another point, he had not received or sought prior parental approval for the activity. As was suggested to me, it would have been seen as an extra-curricular activity requiring parental approval.
If he had just apologised, recognised that he hadn't acted with due dilligence he would have walked away with a slapped wrist.
