Primary School Teachers Are..

[chatterji]

Oh health and safety. Yes, a beloved subject for many teachers.

Ridiculous regulations imposed from above by the Blair Bitch Project that deny kids any kind of independence, encourage parents to wrap their kids in 47 kinds of cotton wool, and mean endless reams of pointless forms for teachers.

[Sam Slater]

It's Blair's fault.

All of it.........

[BlueRaa]

Am I the only one having difficulty following this thread? Photo-Taker, why were you in the school?!?

You say for health and safety reasons. Meaning? Your house has burned down and the school is the safest place to be? All the kids are trained ninjas and will protect you?

Are you a teacher? A health and safety inspector? Why were you in the school?!? You haven't provided any context!!!

Or are you there simply to learn basic spelling, punctuation, grammar and sentence structure? Because, fuck knows you need it!

[Sam Slater]

Ooof!!

[c.j.jaxxon]

It's a shame there's so many FEMALE teachers. Who are the male students gonna look up to?

[chatterji]

Disagree. The cultural hysteria surrounding H&S has only arisen under Blair; this is not simply due to EU-alignment (which actually has relatively little impact on our educational system), nor is it ultimately down to insurance companies who have simply capitalised on the current obsession in British schools. I would argue that parents seeking to 'do schools for negligence' only got this idea into their heads due to the whole Blairite notion of rights without responsibilities. This is what empowered the stranglehold of insurance companies over schools.

Of course kids have to be protected, but does it have to be done in such a Gareth Keenan way? I have friends who teach in the Netherlands and Germany and they find our form-filling circus hilarious.

I have no political colours, but I don't think my detestation of Blair and his project blinds me any more than the next zapatista.

[Mike-L]

c.j.jaxxon wrote:

> It's a shame there's so many FEMALE teachers. Who are the male
> students gonna look up to?

Exactly all male students need female teachers otherwise whats the poit dropping your pen. Not that I did such a thing heh!