49 year old science teacher Peter Harvey attacks 14 year old Jack Waterhouse at All Saints Roman Catholic School in Mansfield, Notts.
A correspondent involved in education says:
Good 4 the Science Teacher who tried 2 murder a rebellious boy pupil! Serious head injuries. Every teacher wld like 2 murder at least one pupil! Many teachers will b envious of the Mansfield science teacher who has actually succeeded in fulfilling every teacher's fantasy of really braining one of the little devils!
Many teachers feel in their heart of hearts they would like 2 brain the "little" devils - many of whom r 6 foot tall or more & don't know their own strength.
It was the fault of the headmistress, who was not up 2 the job of keeping discipline in a big comprehensive & she failed 2 protect that science teacher from bullying by pupils, until he had a breakdown & ended in Clink.
I too am pretty certain that the teacher was sorely provoked, knowing what I know of the likely behaviour of the typical British teenager.
It seems Peter Harvey had only just returned from stress-related leave.
If we do not address the behaviour of the typical British teenage boy - some of whom are known to go around raping female teachers - http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2005/jul/05/ukcrime.schools - or who murder headmasters such as Philip Lawrence - there may well be a shoot'em up rampage by a teacher before too long, along the lines of Columbine, but perpetrated by a member of the teaching profession ...
No doubt the government and its opposition will continue pretending all is well in our wonderful (third) world class education system, which is now so efficiently educating our children to make them fit for a life of catering, chambermaiding, TV cookery, pop idolatry, soccer stardom, gangstas, lap dancing and white slavery.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/educationnews/5787816/Alternative-maths-A-level-branded-mindless.html
Mick Brookes, General Secretary of National Association of Head Teachers, interviewed on Channel 4 last night on the subject of the new Alternative Maths A level, clearly approved of the latest teaching scam of dumbing down. Perhaps this is something to do with hoping that the chances of his members being stabbed by bored, unteachable, singly-parented feral schoolboys who object to being challenged by academic rigour and classroom discipline would be thereby diminished.
There is a group on Facebook called "In Support of Mr Peter Harvey (All Saints' R.C. School, Mansfield)" which readers may wish to check out.
6 comments:
I bet you the rest of the little shits at that school are on their best behaviour in class for the rest of their school days.
I would also guess that Peter Harvey was sorely provoked.
It was my first thought on hearing this news.
Nevertheless the nature of the assault was somewhat extreme and not really what one would expect of teachers.
For now, I think, we should keep an open mind.
If the violence committed was extreme, then I am sure the provocation he suffered was pretty extreme too.
Let what he did be a warning to delinquent children that they may push an adult too far.
Peter Harvey's neighbour had nothing but good to say about him.
Schoolmasters in the past were quite capable of responding to provocation from pupils without resorting to extreme violence.
True, they are no longer allowed to throw chalk, cuff heads, hit pupils with rulers or wield the cane.
But why did not the teacher simply remove the boy from the class, if the provocation was so extreme?
Harvey's neighbour has spoken well of him. However those acquainted with the victim speak well of him too.
I am not taking sides: I am sure that Peter Harvey was provoked.
Nevertheless there were measures he could have taken to deal with this boy short of committing an act of extreme violence.
Reinstating corporal punishment in schools would be a constructive measure. So that all pupils would be deterred from provoking adults in this way.
During my nearly two decades of teaching in prisons, reports would appear regularly deploring the high suicide rate among prisoners. It occurred to me that, however well or badly a prison was run, given that someone serving a sentence of more than a few weeks would almost certainly lose their and probably their home, family and personal possessions, it was surprising not how many prisoners committed suicide, but how few did.
I felt much the same reaction on reading comments on the alleged attack by a Nottinghamshire physics teacher on a 14 year old pupil. If reports of the gratuitously offensive behaviour of a significant number of secondary school pupils towards their teachers today are true, it surprises me that incidents of this sort are not a daily occurrence.
[published in The Independent]
Someone buy that teacher a drink!
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