Monday - November 29, 2010

school daze and teacher seductiuon? make that abduction. abduction without seduction?

This article is interesting more for what it doesn’t tell us.

These days the reports of female teachers seducing young boys is becoming so common it isn’t even shocking anymore. Or surprising.
And btw ... I really do question the “seduction” part of the stories I have seen, recalling that boys that age are already primed for seduction.
There’s not much to seduce and I think the use of the word “child” as the Mail does here is totally without reason. Child?  In today’s world?
With all the images already out there in movies, DVDs, posters, computers and lets not forget advertising and oh yeah, how about MTV? No,no.
The ‘C’ word here is uncalled for and misleading. 

But back to this article .... apparently there is no charge of seduction.  It’s abduction. Which leaves unanswered - abduction for what reason if not sex?

The five charges of sexual activity with the youngster were not put to the defendant and she will not now face prosecution on those counts.

Doesn’t that appear odd to you?  Here the story.

Ballet teacher who had been accused of having sex with underage pupil admits abducting 15-year-old boy

By Daily Mail Reporter

Last updated at 4:47 PM on 29th November 2010

Sarah Pirie, pictured, admitted taking the teenager away from his legal guardians.

A ballet teacher who had been accused of having sex with a 15-year-old boy today confessed to abducting the youngster.

Sarah Pirie, 27, admitted taking the child away from his legal guardians on May 22 last year, Preston Crown Court heard.

Pirie, whose current address is Marner, Luxembourg, had originally also been charged with five counts of sexual activity with the same boy between March and June of last year.

Pirie had pleaded not guilty to all charges and was due to undergo a three week trial starting today.

But after discussions between prosecution and defence barristers, only the single charge of child abduction was put to the defendant, to which she pleaded guilty.

The five charges of sexual activity with the youngster were not put to the defendant and she will not now face prosecution on those counts.

The court heard the prosecution’s case depended on the ‘quality and credibility’ of the youngster’s evidence and it would be ‘inappropriate to maintain the allegations in respect of the other counts’.

Michael Lavery, prosecuting, added: ‘In this case the crown came to the view that there is no realistic prospect of a conviction.’

No more details were given in open court and the circumstances relating to the child abduction charge were not explained.

All the charges related to a time when Pirie, originally from Dundee, worked as a ballet teacher and choreographer in the north west of England.

Pirie, who has no previous convictions, was given bail until sentencing on January 7 on condition she does not approach the youngster again and co-operates with probation for the preparation of a pre-sentence report.

Judge Michael Byrne told the defendant: ‘You should understand this, because it is most important, the fact that I’m ordering a pre-sentence report in no way indicates the nature of the final sentence. All options will be available to me when I deal with this.’

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   Wednesday - November 24, 2010

law and disorder and student protests make their point by attacking police and causing damage

The video below is from a week ago. There are more protests in other cities today. Students?  Well, not exactly all. But, there were some very good photos of a few in the hardcopy editions. Interesting. One of the so called students is the head of a student union and she’s a 37 year old marxist.
Another interesting thing .... some of the students aren’t even Brits .... and an awful lot of the ppl causing damage and committing assault, are kids from middle class families, many who live in expensive homes, the offspring of parents who are very far from being poor.

What this is all about is the increase in college tuitions. A very,very large increase. I think it’s going from £3,000 to £9,000. I’m certain about the 9.
That is a large increase all at once.  However .... the govt. is allowing an increase in the amount earned by students after graduating, before any loans must be paid back.  Example ....

Under the old system, they would start paying back once they earned £15,000 a year.  Now ... that figure has been increased to £21,000.  So no paybacks until they start earning £21,000.  And they have 30 years as I understand it. 

Some of the young involved in these “protests” are as young as 13 or 14.  Seems to me they’re being a bit premature.  While it’s true not all are violent, the ones who are, are not really concerned with fairness and cost.  They are mostly left led and out for fun. Fun means attacking cops who unfortunately are not allowed to shoot the bastards dead. Fun means damaging property and setting fires.

One of last weeks agitators is actually a youngish lecturer at a college, who said the violent ones were brilliant and publicly encourages more of the same.

(note to Drew. heads up for mail on that sent today via snail)

This we have rights thing has been carried to such extremes, that it seems protests which may be honest at the start are ALWAYS, always taken over by the fringe group of pleasure seeking criminals with no jobs anyway, and are led happily and with great enthusiasm by the far left.
If there really were any justice, or anyone with the real desire to right things, these folks would be made an example of. But no luck there so look for more of the same in the future.

Almost forgot to mention it and just reminded by wife.  Just to make things even worse .....

A FRENCH STUDENT UNION HAS SENT OVER A CONTINGENT IN SUPPORT OF THE PROTESTERS.
whatcha think of them apples bmews readers?

Video from the BBC

Police officer ‘has his arm broken’ and another is knocked out as latest tuition fees protest turns ugly in Whitehall

By Daily Mail Reporter

Last updated at 3:44 PM on 24th November 2010

* Demonstrators smash into police van and steal uniforms
* Two officers injured as they clash with protesters
* Territorial Support Group rushed in to bolster police lines

* More protests in Cambridge, Birmingham, Manchester and Glasgow

Police officers appeared to be seriously injured today as angry demonstrators protesting against the hike in tuition fees again brought chaos to the streets.

Around 10,000 students and protesters flooded London for a new demonstration just a fortnight after anarchists unleashed mayhem at the Tory Party headquarters.

Scotland Yard, determined not to be caught on the hop a second time, ensured hundreds of officers were on duty and quickly reinforced numbers as flashpoints developed.

Two officers so far have been taken to hospital, one with a broken arm and another with a leg injury. Shocking footage outside the Foreign Office showed another being dragged to safety, apparently knocked out cold.

Huge crowds had attempted to break the security cordon outside the building but the line of police was quickly bolstered to ensure the barricades were not breached, unlike a fortnight ago.

The Territorial Support Group, who are more highly-training in public order containment, were then rushed in after protesters tried to batter their way to Downing Street using a barrier.

DAILY MAIL

Many are also protesting because they want FREE tuition.  See photos at the link and more story.

Please see this:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MmudJafnQh0

And by all means, see this:  http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-11829102

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   Monday - November 22, 2010

JEWS AGAIN SUFFER THE SLINGS AND ARROWS OF OUTRAGOUS FRAUD …..

Nu? So what else is new?  We all know Jews poison wells and even invented the common cold. Right?

Seriously, this kinda thing is maddening when you think about it.  The Protocols of the Elders of Zion is, among other things, getting some attention in a program being aired tonight.  Hard to believe sometimes that something so fraudulent and proven to be so, is being taught in muslim schools here in the UK. Or perhaps not so hard to believe considering it’s source. It isn’t bad enough I guess that so many are very liberal and very left and add to the enmity many already feel.  Now the damn protocols are being given life, if they ever ended, to open young minds who will absorb everything theyare told. And will believe.
It’ll never end. And worst of it is, there are plenty of liberal minded left wing Jews who stupidly help the very ppl who want to do away with them, and think of the many very conservative and right wings Jews as Fascists.  Of course, anybody Jew or not who doesn’t agree with left wing thought is a Nazi.  Right?

Now having said all that, I’m not certain I disapprove of some aspects of Sharia law. The treatment of thieves is appealing, I think. 

Sharia lessons for pupils aged six: BBC uncovers ‘weekend schools’ that teach pupils how to hack off thieves’ hands
By James Slack
· Pupils asked to list the ‘reprehensible’ qualities of Jews
· Around 5,000 children attend a network of 40 schools
· Diagrams show children how to hack off hands and feet

So-called ‘weekend schools’ for Muslim pupils as young as six also teach that the penalty for gay sex is execution and that ‘Zionists’ are plotting to take over the world for the Jews.
One set textbook challenges youngsters to list the ‘reprehensible’ qualities of Jews.
Another for six-year-olds asks them to answer what happens to someone who dies who is not a believer in Islam. The answer being looked for is ‘hellfire’.
A BBC Panorama investigation, to be screened tonight, identified a network of more than 40 weekend schools teaching around 5,000 children, from age six to 18.

The schools – which offer the hardline Saudi National Curriculum – are run under the umbrella of ‘Saudi Students Clubs and Schools in the UK and Ireland’.
They are not state-funded, and do not use Government buildings. They are able to exploit a loophole which means weekend schools are not inspected by Ofsted.
Last night, experts at the Policy Exchange think-tank warned that similar extremists could seek to exploit the Government’s policy of giving greater freedoms from state control to free schools and academies.

Clear message: Education Secretary Michael Gove has said he would not tolerate anti-Semitism and homophobia in English schools
They call for the establishment of a due diligence unit to check whether those applying to open the schools have an extremist background.
There are diagrams showing children where cuts must be made. One passage says: ‘The specified punishment of the thief is cutting off his right hand at the wrist. Then it is cauterised to prevent him from bleeding to death.’

The text books for 15-year-olds revive the so-called ‘Protocols of the Elders of Zion’, which teach that Zionists want to establish world domination for Jews.
The Saudi text books instruct pupils: ‘The Jews have tried to deny them (the Protocols) but there are many proofs of their veracity and their origin among the elders of Zion.’

The text books say the ‘main goal’ of the ‘Zionist movement’ is ‘for the Jews to have control over the world and its resources’ which, the book allege, Zionists seek to achieve partly by ‘inciting rancour and rivalry among the great powers so that they fight one another.’
Panorama separately claimed some Muslim private schools have expressed extreme sentiments on their school websites.

These include: ‘We need to defend our children from the forces of evil’, and ‘our children are exposed to a culture that is in opposition to almost everything Islam stands for’.

If they’re worried about western exposure on their children, then what in heaven’s name are they doing here in the west? Go away dick heads. Leave.
Nobody but the left will miss you. Go where you belong to begin with.  Ah right.  Little if any financial benefits. Talk outta turn and perhaps more then a hand might be lost.  Arranged weddings even under duress, filth and ignorance and dark age mentality. Go. You’ll fit right in seamlessly.

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   Thursday - November 18, 2010

moonbat of the year?  I give up. Things just keep getting so pc they all win top prize.

So I guess now I join the pc brigade awarding all of em the top prize for moonbattery , thus leaving no one a loser. Which of course isn’t planned. Just works out that way. I keep reading things in the papers that stagger the imagination, the Brits would say “Barking Mad” and they’d be correct.
Like this story in the morning paper for example.

Do you remember your school days when asked a question and we all threw up our hands if we thought we knew the answer?  Well, apparently it’s been discovered that the kids who don’t raise their hands cos they just don’t know (or maybe are shy?) might feel left out of things.
So how do you address that problem?  Oh. You never knew it was a problem?  Well, it just became one.

School bans children from putting their hands up

A school is to ban pupils from putting up their hands when they know an answer in class – because it “alienates” less intelligent children.

11:14AM GMT 17 Nov 2010

Children at Ormiston Sir Stanley Matthews Academy in Stoke-on-Trent, Staffs, will now have to wait to be asked questions in class, rather than putting themselves forward.

The radical new plans come after teachers at the school worked alongside teaching guru Professor Dylan Wiliam – who claims that asking children to put their hands up alienates other pupils.

Teachers will now be picking pupils at random to answer questions – to stop brighter and more outgoing children from answering too many questions.

Lynne Jones, assistant principal of the school said: “It means there’s no hiding place for children in a lesson, there’s no opt out.”

Teachers at the school will also stop grading pupils’ work as part of the radical new teaching methods.

Professor Wiliam, from London’s Institute of Education, has even advised teachers to write comments about pupils’ work on separate pieces of paper – and make them guess which comment is meant for their work.

Professor Wiliam claims that if work is graded, pupils don’t bother reading the comments left by teachers – and has instructed teachers to stop giving pupils an overall mark on every piece of work – instead grading them for effort every six weeks.

He said: “Teachers could write the comments on strips of paper instead of on the essays. They could then get a group of pupils to match up the comments to their essays.

School head teacher, Mark Stanyer, said: “What we are trying to achieve is to get pupils to think for themselves.”

I suppose the grading thing they speak of here might be okay but the hands thing is silly. If the same kids keep trying to answer questions, doesn’t a teacher always have the option to call on any kid he or she wants to?

The wife has an observation re. liberalism in schools.  I hadn’t given it a lot of thought but she wonders if anyone hasn’t clued into the fact that as schools get more and more liberal, anti social behavior increases.  I think she has a valid point there.

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   Friday - October 29, 2010

Find The Real Boobs

Buffalo teachers left taxpayers on the hook for nearly $9 million worth of cosmetic surgery last year, according to the state-appointed authority overseeing public school finances.

The Buffalo Fiscal Stability Authority found that last year’s costs for elective procedures such as chemical peels and other skin treatments were up $8 million over 2004’s $1 million tab for cosmetic surgery.

The procedures, provided under the teachers’ union contract, accounted for 9 percent of the district’s total spending on health benefits for employees and retirees, The Buffalo News reported Thursday.

About 10,000 school employees are eligible for the benefit. District officials said teachers or their dependents accounted for 90 percent of the approximately 500 people who received cosmetic surgery last year.

Barbara J. Smith, the district’s chief financial officer, said those 500 people represent less than 2 percent of those covered by health insurance through the district—a figure she estimated works out to an average of nearly $18,000 in elective procedures last year per employee who used the benefit.

The president of the Buffalo Teachers Federation said the union has agreed to give up the benefit in the next contract and said teachers may be simply rushing to use the benefit while they can.

Somebody tell me why elective cosmetic surgery was EVER in their health plan to being with. Talk about your “Cadillac care plans”! Horry clap. And this bennie was extended to all family members and retirees.

Sheesh. Your kid can’t read, but his teacher sure has a nice perky rack!

Throw them out. To hell with renegotiating a contract. Fire them all and start over. Union free. No unions for teachers, cops, firefighters, postal workers, or anyone else who works for the government.

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   Monday - October 25, 2010

Head teacher says schoolchildren do not need books …. ok, then what?  answer > Wikipedia.

At some point last week, or maybe the one before, I posted a stupid school story. I can’t even remember now exactly what was at issue, except I assigned it a Moonbat I’m sure.

Well, now it’s the turn of my own country and frankly I don’t get it.  No books?  How’s that work? This I think deserves a Moonbat or two. See what you make of it.
Is it only me or does this not make any sense?  And what’s this person doing in a school anyway?  Read on and see an example of his academic brilliance.
Maybe someone should have shared a book with him. 

Head teacher says schoolchildren do not need books and recommends Wikipedia

The head teacher of a school in New York is facing calls to resign after he sent out an error-strewn letter claiming that children did not need books, while he also recommended Wikipedia.

By Jon Swaine in New York

Andrew Buck, the principal of The Middle School for Art and Philosophy, Brooklyn, wrote to his teachers to defend the school’s policy of not providing textbooks, which had been criticised by some parents.

His memo contained so many spelling mistakes, grammatical errors and non-sequiturs that a concerned member of staff passed it on to parents, who began handing out copies at the school gates.

Mr Buck, who is paid $130,000 (£83,000) a year, wrote: “Text books are the soup de jour, the *sine qua non*, the nut and bolts of teaching and learning in high school and college so to speak.” However, he added, “just because student have a text book, doesn’t mean she or she will be able to read it Additionally students can’t use a text book to learn how to learn from a textbook.

“Are text books necessary? No. Are text books important? Yes. Can a teacher sufficiently teach a course without them? Yes, but conditionally.”

Mr Buck went on to say that not being able to answer questions in his own school textbooks made him feel “dumb and inadequate” when he was a boy.

“Personal experience aside, which surfaces a concern about the potential adverse affects of textbooks to students learning, let’s return to the essential question of learning and how it is best achieved,” he wrote.

After listing the names of educational theorists whose work, he said, would back up his claims, Mr Buck wrote: “Check out Wikipedia if you want to learn more about learning theory”.

Pupils at the school, where only one in eight 14-year-olds passed state reading exams last year, are given no textbooks for some classes and have to share in others. The school has no library.

Paulette Brown, a nursing assistant with a daughter at the school, told local reporters: “Our principal denies us books and then he sends this nonsense. You can’t understand what he’s saying in the letter. He has to go.”

Mr Buck, a former official in the local education department, has led the school since its foundation in 2007. He was found to be the least trusted principal in Brooklyn by a New York teachers union survey the following year.

He said in an emailed statement: “I often correspond with teachers on educational issues to enhance communications and generate discussion. If any parent has concerns, I am available to speak with them.”

edju-ca-shun

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   Saturday - October 23, 2010

teacher is banned for being useless … no kidding.  read all about it …

Fine but what does this say about the morons who allowed him into the system to begin with? And he was in the job for 13 years?

This is an example of Labour throwing money at a problem and then saying, it has to work cos we gave it all this money.  Maybe if we throw more money at the education problem, it’ll get better. Right. 

Wanna bet somewhere down the line we’ll read about a race complaint?

The first teacher banned for life for being useless

By Sarah Harris and Arthur Marti

A teacher who is judged to be incapable of ever improving his work has become the first to be banned for life from the classroom due to incompetence.

Nisar Ahmed will never reach ‘requisite standards’ of teaching and cannot work in state schools again, a panel ruled.

The General Teaching Council for England found the 46-year-old guilty of serious professional incompetence and said there was a risk that pupils would be seriously disadvantaged if he was ever allowed to return to lessons.

Mr Ahmed was head of business studies at the John O’Gaunt Community Technology College in Hungerford, Berkshire, from September 2007 to January 2009.

He had taught for a total of 13 years at schools across the South-East.

His management of lessons was ‘invariably’ below standard, the GTC disciplinary panel was told.

The school, which has more than 450 pupils, aged 11 to 18, gave Mr Ahmed ‘extensive formal and informal’ support for more than a year but he failed to improve.

Just 13 teachers have been banned from the profession for fixed periods for incompetence since 2000.

Mr Ahmed is the first to receive a prohibition order without time limit.

the rest is here

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   Thursday - October 21, 2010

teacher too sexy say a few misfits ….

Well, seems some folks in Milan are either jealous or ugly or both. I see some humor in this altho I bet the teacher in question didn’t.

Some folks aren’t happy unless they can find something to make em miserable. Take a look.

Angry parents withdrew pupil from prestigious Milan school because teacher ‘was too sexy’

By Nick Pisa
Last updated at 3:10 PM on 21st October 2010

A former beauty queen has sparked fury among parents at an Italian school who claims she is too attractive to be a teacher.

Ileana Tacconelli, 28, who has three degrees, has caused a storm after it emerged she was a former model and racy photographs and video footage of her were posted on the internet.

As a result, one set of angry parents withdrew their daughter from the Catholic School in Milan.

Miss Tacconelli, dubbed la maestra sexy in Italy, has three degrees and has worked at the San Carlo Catholic School in Milan for three years

But others - particularly fathers of students at the prestigious San Carlo Catholic High School - and the headteacher have stood by Miss Tacconelli.

The row erupted after one mother complained to the headteacher Father Aldo Geranzani claiming she was ‘too attractive and a distraction’.

Video of her acting in a comic sketch dressed in tight fitting hot pants and a bra then surfaced on the internet, as well as photographs of her posing in an American police uniform.

The former Miss Abruzzo - a beauty contest for a region of central Italy - was entered into the national contest but failed to win and went on to gain her teaching qualifications at university.

The story made the front page of Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi’s family-owned newspaper, complete with an editorial explaining that the footage of her was more slapstick than soft porn as had been claimed.

REST OF STORY IS HERE

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   Sunday - August 15, 2010

Education?

Remember when going to school meant you got an education?

I gave a speech at my local Toastmaster’s club about this. I remember being anxious about 4th grade. Seems that 4th grade had a hard subject called ‘Civics’. I’d never had ‘Civics’ before. It had the biggest, heaviest textbook. (good thing I lived right across the alley from the school. Back then me and my sisters went home for lunch. But that’s for another post.) You studied the Constitution, three branches of government, etc. Mom was the one who made me anxious: she didn’t like ‘Civics’ class when she was in school. She thought it was ‘hard’.

As it turned out, I found it an easy subject. We’d already covered similar subjects in Indiana history and government in 3rd grade. (I wonder what do they teach now in 3rd grade?) But… they were preaching the ‘living Constitution’ nonsense we’ve come to expect from liberals. At that time I thought it was neat. But I was thinking that the ‘living’ part meant the amendment process. I got a bit older and found out how wrong I was…

This also made it into my Toastmaster speech: my sister, two years younger than me, didn’t have ‘Civics’ in 4th grade. Ditto for my baby sister two years after her. Coincidence? A plan to dumb down the electorate? Or were the NEA ‘teachers’ just too stupid to teach the subject?

I report; You decide.

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   Wednesday - May 12, 2010

No it didn’t

Charlotte NC: A gun went off inside a student’s desk, the bullet, missing the 20 or so students in the classroom and hitting a wall.

Parents rushed to pick up their kids, worried about what could have happened.

But CMS didn’t inform parents that the incident involved a loaded gun until almost two hours after school let out.

Many parents we talked to were concerned because they didn’t know exactly what was going on.

One parent told us she got the initial message from CMS, which stated, “A serious incident occurred in a University Meadows classroom this afternoon.”

The gun was a .22-caliber handgun “small enough to fit in the palm of your hand,” said CMPD Sgt. David Schwob, who said he wasn’t certain if the discharge was accidental.

Police are investigating the boy’s father who came to the school in the afternoon [after the shooting]. Schwob said investigators were interviewing the boy, his parents and other students in the class.

The boy was locked up in a detention facility and investigators were trying to figure out how he got the gun.

Police say the gun was fired around 1 p.m. while it was inside a desk. The bullet hit a wall, according to WCNC-TV, the Observer’s news partner.

No one was injured. Police didn’t release the name of the third-grader they say brought the gun because he is a minor. He was charged with possession of a gun on school grounds and was being held late Tuesday at a juvenile detention facility in Gaston County.

Sure, the weapon may have discharged, but only because there was a 3rd grader’s finger on the trigger. Pulling it. Period. Even if the kid was Jayson Williams’ son, the gun did not go off by itself.

Now, why did a 3rd grader have a loaded gun in his desk? How did he get the gun in the first place? No public answers to those questions at this time.

A statistical analysis of the students at University Meadows Elementary can be found here. It’s a pretty good sized school, with more than 850 kids in grades K-5.

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   Tuesday - April 06, 2010

IZ DIS DE WAY TO LEARN KIDS IN SKOOL WHAT WILL LOOK MAYBE FOR FUTURE JOB? education?

Oh boy. Where to begin?  To think that there are people in authority who think this way and can have influence on education is not only scary, it is bizarre beyond all understanding.  Is it April 1st again?  How could any adult buy this crap? 

One of the things need doing here as folks know, is clearing up our categories. Here I am mentally adding another one called, YOU COULDN’T MAKE THIS UP.
Or similar wording.

Since this is a post is on education I will mention in passing that a report I saw today calls for teachers to smile at pupils and that is NOT a suggestion. It looks to become a new rule if I read correctly.  Also, some teachers are complaining about having to be reviewed when applying for their job, by kids between the ages of 11 and 16.  ? Could you have made that up?  Bizarre world the unfortunate Brits have built for themselves.  PLEASE, do not believe that all Brits are this stupid. They aren’t.  It’s a different culture with different traditions and a long standing belief in fair play which has been turned against them. There’s so much to explain but I’m the wrong person to do it.  Six years here have not made me any kind of expert on England. But I know folks are disgruntled, many hate the socialist govt. they have but don’t trust the cons any more then the lefties of the Labour Party. They call the Tories, Labour Lite. So that shows you the pickle they are in.

Sorry to be so long winded but I feel strongly about this place, even if it isn’t my country, and I hate to see it doomed.

Pupils who plagiarise from the web will get bonus marks

Michael Deacon uncovers some of the forthcoming initatives to make education more pupil-centred.

By Michael Deacon

Telegraph

School days are the best of your life. Well, unless you’re one of the staff. Teachers are complaining that their authority is being undermined by contentious initiatives intended to “empower” pupils. At one school in Kent, pupils have been given iPhones on which to email senior management with feedback on teachers’ “performance”; in other schools, pupils get a say in the hiring of teachers.

Staff will not be comforted by a confidential report I’ve uncovered from the Institute for the Development of Innovation-Oriented Teaching Skills (IDIOTS). It lists forthcoming initiatives that are as far-sighted and progressive as the above. Here are its highlights:

• Teachers must discontinue their antiquated practice of penalising pupils who do not give so-called “correct” answers. The concept of “correct” answers is elitist, as it discriminates against pupils who do not know them. Instead, pupils should be rewarded for demonstrating qualities such as imagination (for example, imagining that 6x4=32) and original thinking (for example, thinking that the capital of France is Africa, or that Winston Churchill invented the potato).

• The custom of grading pupils according to the merit of their work is divisive, as it fosters the outdated belief that it is better to be “clever” and “hard-working” than “stupid” and “lazy”. All pupils should be awarded identical grades, irrespective of ability.

• To avoid stigmatising pupils, teachers should refrain from employing negative terminology. Instead of telling a pupil that his answer is “wrong”, the teacher should tell him that it is “factually divergent from the norm”. Instead of calling a pupil “disobedient”, the teacher should call him “behaviourally unorthodox”. Instead of writing in the register that a pupil was “late”, the teacher should write that the pupil’s attendance was “deferred”. And instead of telling a pupil that he has “failed”, the teacher should tell him that he has “passed”.

• The teaching of history will be abolished, on account of its backward-looking focus on the past. In its place will be a new, more up-to-date and relevant subject known as The Present, the study of which will consist of the continuous monitoring of Twitter feeds.

• Pupils found to have plagiarised essays from the web will be awarded bonus marks for having demonstrated technological expertise.

• Finally, teachers should not inhibit pupils’ creativity by insisting that they follow arbitrary and obsolescent rules; for example, punctuation, spelling, homework deadlines or the law.

IDIOT SOURCE

PS:  Not that it has anything to do with the subject here.  A young man in college and a brain for sure has won a contest with his team of other very bright scholars. He really is smart and he is head of his science fiction club at school.  You might say he is their ‘chairman’ unless you’re very pc in which case the word used these ridiculous days is, ‘chairperson.’ Pretty stupid huh?  Well BMEWS, here’s another I could not make it up.
The young fellow in question is referred to in the press as, ‘CHAIRBEING.’

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   Saturday - April 03, 2010

Teacher who allowed brother to kill his wife could return to the classroom in a year

It’s a very short and telling article that caught my eye this morning.  Yet this slag is being allowed to continue teaching in schools. ??? Hey, not for me to say I realize. But wouldn’t you think this is a person who should only be cleaning floors or something?  Honest, I don’t know but I’m surprised.
Here’s what I’m on about. Jeesh.

PS:  I think she’s evil.

A teacher who stood by while her sister-in-law was murdered in her family home could return to the classroom in less than a year.


By Laura Roberts
Published: 8:00AM BST 03 Apr 2010

Uzma Khan, 25, failed to intervene as Shazad Khan beat his wife, Sabia Rani, 19, to death in Leeds, West Yorkshire, in May 2006.

She was jailed for two years along with her mother and sister, but following her release the General Teaching Council (GTC) for England has only imposed a 12 month ban from teaching.

The former science teacher at West Leeds High was sentenced in January 2008, after a judge said he could not believe a woman of her education and intelligence could have failed to realise her sister-in-law was being abused.

However, the GTC has concluded: “We have no doubt that you do not present a risk to children or pupils.”

After bludgeoning his wife, Shazad Khan carried her body through the house and put her in the bath in the communal bathroom before filling it with cold water.

The three women claimed they hadn’t realised Miss Rani was dying as a result of sustained, regular beatings.

After being subjected to three weeks of attacks by her husband she died only a few months after marrying Khan and moving from Pakistan.

A pathologist described her injuries as the worst he had ever seen and Judge James Stewart told Ms Khan the jury found her “lacking” when it came to “common humanity within your own home”.

A GTC professional conduct committee said: “In our judgment your conviction for allowing the death of a vulnerable adult has material relevance to your fitness to be a registered teacher.”

However, it concluded: “We believe that you have the potential to teach effectively in the future and you have the passion, desire and professional commitment for teaching.”

lets hear it for education. moonbat source

Posted by peiper     on 04/03/2010 at 05:34 AM   
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   Saturday - March 27, 2010

School Daze, school days, Barking mad in Britain

School Daze, school days, Barking mad in Britain

I don’t enjoy posting articles like this, and it sure doesn’t make a country whose traditions and history I’ve admired look very good.  That’s because it just plain doesn’t look so well anymore.  The left wing social engineers and bleeding hearts and all their political correctness have wrecked this place.  Not totally, not yet, but I think they’re working hard at it.

There is absolutely no excuse in the world to tolerate this kind of crap.  It’s clear from this article and much else I’ve read, that there doesn’t seem to be enough support for the teacher in the classroom or for harsher punishment to deal with the class thugs.  Some of these little monsters are already so far out of control, that there does not appear to be any other way to deal with them except hanging.  Basically they’re bullies and cowards and I believe that if a few executions were to take place and watched by their peers, the problem might solve itself.  Or at least diminish to a point where other students and teachers will be safe in their own schools.  But there aren’t any examples being made that would deter the other punks. 

Yesterday a gang (up to 20) of black school (children?) went after one boy and caught him at a subway station and in front of a crown, stabbed him to death.

Schoolgirls in murder gang: Teenagers face quiz over stabbing that terrified commuters

There were also girls involved in that mob violence.  Turns out that they had been causing problems for some weeks before this, armed with screwdriver and knives.  The paper reported in this case that they were blacks and it just reminded me that while it was never on this horrible scale, 60 years ago in my country it was generally blacks and Puerto Ricans who carried blades and roamed in groups.  You just had to stay out of their territory.  They seldom ventured into the city center or a bus station or train station attacking news stands and destroying merchandise and stabbing anyone who happened to be there. I mean to say, it wasn’t a normal thing.  It wasn’t a normal thing in this country either, not until these folks suddenly discovered they had, RIGHTS! All sorts of RIGHTS. And the lawyers to back them up all paid for of course by the very people who are always at their mercy.  The taxpayer.  Who else has the money?

Another case came to light this week and again I simply ignored it due to the nature and it bothered us beyond imagination.  I mention it now because of the story being posted here and the one I described above.

A 13 yr old boy was caught raping a three year old baby. Come to find out, he’d abused her a few days previous to that.  He was caught by the girl’s mom.
The paper didn’t go into any great detail and nothing was mentioned as to whether or not she beat the creep up. Perhaps he was too big for her. Who knows.
Due to his tender age of course the courts don’t allow for his name or photo to be made public.  That’s a dame shame cos if anyone deserves hanging from the nearest tree, but only after having parts of him removed, this bastard does.  Again, it will never happen.  And so future victims are being created even as I type this rant.  And that’s what always gets my dander up and I lose the old temper.  Because I’m convinced beyond all doubt that future victims are out there all because a system that calls itself justice, dispenses little of that or none at all.

The unteachable pupils sent back to terrified staff despite assaults and sex attacks

By Laura Clark

It is a shocking document which lays bare the realities of teaching in increasingly unruly schools.

One teacher reports the case of a 14-year-old boy who attacked her and sexually assaulted a female classroom assistant.

Another boy, this time aged only five, threatened to stab a member of staff with a pair of scissors and threw chairs in his reception class.

Most disturbingly, the culprits have all been returned to the classroom against the wishes of teachers - often after initially being excluded or expelled.

Nine ‘unteachable’ children are described in a dossier produced by the NASUWT union. Five were expelled by head teachers only to be reinstated by governing bodies.

The union accuses governors of being more concerned with placating parents of troublemakers than protecting staff.

In the other four cases, head teachers themselves failed to take firm action, leaving classroom teachers in what they describe as an impossible position.

Chris Keates, NASUWT general secretary, said the dossier highlighted a ‘deeply worrying’ assault on teachers’ authority.

‘Governors seem to be taking the line of least resistance to placate the minority of parents rather than to protect the majority of pupils and their staff,’ she said.

‘If governors do not back head teachers’ professional judgment in these matters then staff and school leaders cannot manage behaviour with confidence.

‘Equally concerning is that, in the other cases, which were all serious incidents, the school took either no action or made the very weak response of temporary exclusion.’

MORE OF THE STORY HERE

Posted by peiper     on 03/27/2010 at 06:40 AM   
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   Thursday - February 18, 2010

School ‘spied on pupils at home through webcams’ …..  stand by for legal action …

This came through about a half hour ago. When I saw the headline I immediately thought it was here. But no. The USA.  Woo-Hoo.  Gonna be trouble now you betcha.
How could they (the school obviously) be so damn stupid? With all the law suits for doing less, with all the talk about big brother etc., the person or persons responsible sure weren’t thinking too clearly. No wait.  They weren’t thinking at all.

Administrators of a wealthy suburban school district have been spying on students and their families at home after giving them laptops fitted with webcams, according to a lawsuit filed by parents.

By Tom Leonard in New York
Published: 6:40PM GMT 18 Feb 2010

The Lower Merion School District, which administers a Philadelphia suburb that is one of the wealthiest parts of Pennsylvania, issued all 1,800 students at its two high schools with laptops so they could access school materials at home.

However, according to a civil action filed in the local US district court, neither parents nor their children were ever warned that the access worked both ways.

Michael and Holly Robbins claim they were alerted to the snooping when an assistant principal at Harriton High School warned their son, Blake, in November last year that he was “engaged in improper behaviour in his home”, citing a photo taken on his laptop webcam as evidence.

Mr Robbins said he later verified through the assistant principal, Lindy Matsko, that the school district was able at any time to “remotely activate” the webcam in a student’s laptop and “view and capture” whatever image was in its line of sight, all without the user’s knowledge or permission.

The lawsuit also argues that “many of the images captured and intercepted may consist of minors and their parents or friends in compromising or embarrassing positions” including “various stages of undress”, the lawsuit adds.

SCHOOL SPYS

Posted by peiper     on 02/18/2010 at 02:14 PM   
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