Posted on 09/04/2009 8:57:24 AM PDT by Wardenclyffe
Teachers are demanding the right to get drunk at weekends as they protest against a tough new code of conduct.
More than 10,000 have signed a petition calling for the scrapping of rules which require them to uphold 'public trust' in their profession outside school.
The code, drawn up by the General Teaching Council [GTC] and coming into force next month, aims to reinforce the traditional role of teachers as pillars of society.
It urges teachers to act as role models for pupils inside and outside the classroom by maintaining 'reasonable standards in their own behaviour'.
One teacher, who asked not to be named, said that pupils and staff sometimes socialised together, for example after sporting events.
It was a 'grey area' whether consuming alcohol around children was setting a poor example and breaching the code.
A draft version of the code stated that teachers must 'maintain standards of behaviour both inside and outside school that are appropriate given their membership of an important and responsible profession'. However this was toned down following consultation.
The GTC insisted teachers would only fall foul of the code if their behaviour sank seriously below acceptable standards. It was not designed to catch teachers out for weekend drinking.
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“One teacher, who asked not to be named, said that pupils and staff sometimes socialised together, for example after sporting events.”
As a former teacher, I can say that this is horrible idea. You are setting yourself up for a world of trouble by socializing with students.
I wonder why the teacher didn’t want to be named?
Why shouldn’t they be able to so long as they stay out of trouble?
And yet they can still march in gay pride parades.
““One teacher, who asked not to be named, said that pupils and staff sometimes socialised together, for example after sporting events.”
As a former teacher, I can say that this is horrible idea. You are setting yourself up for a world of trouble by socializing with students.
I wonder why the teacher didn’t want to be named?”
I think the huge question with that statement comes in the definition of socializing. Socializing could be a team picnic after a sporting event or it could involve being the creepy guy who gives everyone pot. It could very well be something with parents around too.
Rules for teachers in mid-1800s:
Teachers each day will fill lamps, clean chimneys.
Each teacher will bring a bucket of water and a scuttle of coal for the day’s session.
Make your pens carefully. You may whittle nibs to the individual taste of the pupils.
Men teachers may take one evening each week for courting purposes, or two evenings a week if they go to church regularly.
After 10 hours in school, the teachers may spend the remaining time reading the Bible or other good books.
Women teachers who marry or engage in unseemly conduct will be dismissed.
Every teacher should lay aside from each pay a goodly sum of his earnings for his benefit during his declining years so that he will not become a burden on society.
Any teacher who smokes, uses liquor in any form, frequents pool or public halls, or gets shaved in a barber shop will give good reason to suspect his worth, intention, integrity, and honesty.
The teacher who performs his labor fruitfully and without fault for five years will be given an increase of 25 cents per week in his pay, providing the Board of Education approves.
I have no problem with a teacher drinking responsibly on the weekend.
I got it bad
Sooooo bad!
I’m hot for teacher.
Diamond Dave
Boy, if only we could get back to the good old days.
Oh! The SCANDAL!
At least they had a hefty raise to look forward to!
That was the last time I drank close to school. It made me feel weird to see the students outside. I couldn't imagine seeing my teachers doing the same when I was younger.
Boy how our standards have gone in the dumpster. But I dont’ get this one: “or gets shaved in a barber shop”. Can someone explain that restriction?
Agreed. Teaching is a job, not a religious calling.
I have to agree with the teachers here. What if a teacher happens to belong to a really conservative church and does evangelizing door to door or on the street corner — we all know of cases where teachers have landed in hot water over such activities and that is in the USA! This is in Britain where the government is not quite as big on the notions we have enshrined in our Bill of Rights.
Never give MORE power over government institutions to rule over your private life.
No, not a religious calling, per se.
On the other hand, look at where it has gotten us to have teachers with significantly different standards and ideals than the parents of the children they teach.
Teachers have a profound influence on the thinking of our children. They spend more time with our kids than anyone else but us during their formative years, sometimes more.
Can you see a correlation between teachers of lower moral standards and students developing lower moral standards? I can, and I believe there's a clear causation there.
I wish there was a greater concern about the standards and morality of the teachers who spend 6+ hours a day with our children!
A couple of the craziest chicks I ever met were shool teachers.
Both at a motorcycle rally in MyrtleBeach.
Both were sloppy drunk and pulling their shirts up.
Both were school teachers.
Two seperate incidents.
And by the way, there is a girl here in accounting.... quiet girl.... wears her hair in a bun..... I would bet she has an assortment of whips and chains at home and by-gosh I aim to find out.
Careful. Don’t let the “head with no brain” lie to the “head with the brain”.
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