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SMH online, Sunday morning:
Teachers and principals are taking sick leave, seeking stress counselling and even resigning in the face of widespread bullying by parents.
SMH online, Sunday afternoon:
Bullying of teachers by parents is an extremely rare occurrence despite reports to the contrary, the teachers’ union says.
So teachers aren’t being Muntzed after all. Seems kind of obvious; when would sufficient parents have enough time to mount a bullying program large enough to be described as “widespread”? Next up, the Mysterious Case of the Twice-Found Witnesses ...
Declan Walsh (with fellow reporter Farah Stockman) in the Boston Globe, June 18:
The US government routinely failed to give detainees at Guantanamo Bay access to witnesses who might have helped them prove their assertions of innocence, saying it could not locate the vast majority of the witnesses the terror suspects requested at special military hearings.
But within a three-day span, a Globe reporter was able to locate three of those witnesses in the case of one detainee ...
The detainee whose witnesses the Globe located is Abdullah Mujahid, a former Afghan provincial police commander arrested by US troops in July 2003.
And Declan Walsh in the Guardian, June 30:
The US government said it could not find the men that Guantánamo detainee Abdullah Mujahid believes could help set him free. The Guardian found them in three days.
Well, let’s see. Walsh—described by the Guardian as the paper’s “Pakistan/Afghanistan correspondent since July 2004”, although the Globe was still calling him “a freelance writer in the Afghanistan region” by September of that year—does all the work, while the glacial Guardian (which took four times as long to publish Walsh’s work as it took Walsh to find the alleged witnesses) claims the credit. Galen Moore, of the Daily News Tribune:
The Guardian calls today’s story an “exclusive.” Can they get away with this?
Not if the Superfriends have anything to do with it!
(Via Canadian reader Rocky)
Declan sent the report to the Guardian on the same day that he filed it with the Boston Globe. But what with atmospheric absorption and delta-Eddington scattering at unprecedented levels, his little bitey bytes initially missed the geostationary relay satellite but by chance hit it almost two weeks later. Climate change. What else?
Well maybe he was tied up with Farah Stockman. Images of leather, stocks, dungeons, ropes, chains… It’s almost midnight, time to go to bed.
Posted by Whale Spinor on 2006 07 03 at 09:55 AM • permalinkYeah like Matt Brown, the man from Aunty homes in on Palestinian Militants..that man is magic.He can find a needle in a haystack.
Just moseys on down the sidewalk and bingo-there’s a passel o militants for him to hang around behind.
And how that man loves his militants.Adores the whole scene,the guns,the ammunition belts,the masks,the flags -he just can’t get enough.Sad really.Elementary my dear Watson. It was one set of parents continually bullying an assortment of teachers, time after time changing into a disguise each more cunning than the last!
Now that Scotland Yard has successfully packed them off to gaol (or perhaps jail) one can expect peace and harmony to reign amongst the empire’s urchins once again.(pauses to light pipe)
My parents never complained to any of my teachers about my grades or the burden of homework or any of that coddling rot. If I whined that a teacher was giving me too much homework or being mean to me (for instance, confiscating the scifi paperbacks I’d been hiding inside my textbooks so I could read the paperbacks instead) I was sent to my room and not allowed out until I finished my homework. Of course my parents were on the teachers’ side—for one thing, it wasn’t automatically assumed, as it is today, that children are delicate little angels of goodness who would never, ever lie or shirk their duties, and as well parents back then didn’t yearn, as a way of recapturing their own faded and irresponsible youth, to be “buddies” with their children. Also, my father was a teacher.
Posted by Andrea Harris, Administrator on 2006 07 03 at 06:09 PM • permalink6. That’s how I remember it Andrea. It was me against them, not us against the teacher, no matter how much of a hard old bitch she (or he) was.
Course if they had a real union (as opposed to a bunch of left wing panty wastes) it would not tolerate harrassment of its members without surrepticiously breaking a few legs.
Posted by Vanguard of the Commentariat on 2006 07 03 at 10:24 PM • permalink#7 Vanguard,
I think the expression is “pantywaist”, a panty waste is a barren landscape occupied only by panties and tumbleweed. At least that’s how I imagine it.Posted by Daniel San on 2006 07 04 at 12:56 AM • permalink8. Daniel San, I imagined it as the useless wastes that are excreted into panties, which is how I feel about our disloyal opposition. But I respectfully yield to your superior knowledge of the subject!
Posted by Vanguard of the Commentariat on 2006 07 04 at 01:20 AM • permalinkAlso, the bullying related stories: the Prof who took 5 years to remove ten minutes of bullying time in the playground and to put ten more minutes at play lunch..
What the?? does this thesis prof understand there still is another ten minutes of lunch time even if she removes the ten minutes?
Why do teachers confuse the issue and now place it on parents>?
What abou the story of the teacher who got sacked for remarrying?
How about those bullying teachers in america who would not use a red pen to mark?
How about an Anglican/private school recently been funded 2.8 million for a brand new state of the art gym… in hurstville. When down in blakehurst they need new buildings?
Teachers are the real bully boys who are public servants paid to control. I could tell you a novel on the stories I’ve heard about the education system.Social engineering: ACER you naughty org.
A= average
B=bully
C=cult schools
d=dumbf=funding and the fantasy world.
I’ll give them an F for phonica.
But then again, she was told to learn to keep her mouth shut>
Punishment for her was a 6 week diary writing what she did each hour to justify her employment. That was one day and the next it would be for not consulting a commitee. etc… they would mirror her and constantly complain about everything she did. She seeks therapy, and left on the day, although she was innocent. Her x x partner was a well known radio journalist in melbourne whom has remarried etc…and has the same issue with this christian group.
Sometimes she’s get told harsh words by her colleagues like pedo…. person and would ritualise her each day, so she had to leave.
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Parents threatening or being difficult to teachers is not very rare, though calling it bullying would probably mean some systematic pattern of standover tactics. Parents can be mentally ill, druggies or occasionally violent; every class has n x 2 (or so) opportunities to strike a bad one.
My mum was an excellent teacher, but after a year of sustained bullying and miniserial level complaining she accepted a year out of the system to make the trouble go away. LOVED not having them anymore - the parents that is, she loved her kids in class.