Posted on 08/07/2023 1:08:23 AM PDT by grundle
Sarah Mead had an “unblemished” teaching career and became deputy headteacher at Meridian Angel Primary School in Enfield, north London.
But in May 2022, a schoolboy, named only as “Pupil A”, suffered a small burn to his hand, prompting the mother to go to a tabloid newspaper claiming he was left in “serious pain” and she was “livid”.
Now the Teaching Regulation Agency (TRA) has found Ms Mead failed to provide the child with adequate supervision, did not conduct a risk assessment, take the boy for medical treatment or inform his parents about the injury.
However, the TRA panel refused to strip Ms Mead of her right to teach because it would “deprive” children of a teacher who had a “long and otherwise unblemished record”.
The ruling, published in July, explained how Ms Mead told pupils in an arts and design class not to use the device but later found they had turned the gun on and had been successfully using it to make the art project.
She showed them how to use it safely, before tending to other children.
The report says: “As the children were packing up for the end of the day, one of the pupils told Ms Mead that Pupil A had “hurt” himself.” ‘Furious’
She found he was “reluctant” to show her his hand but she did see a “small single blister”. She told him to run his hand under cold water, go to the medical room and tell his mother about the injury when he got home.
When the child got home his mother took him to hospital where medics discovered a “superficial burn” on his right hand where two burn blisters were visible, one of which was “oozing”.
He was advised to use over-the-counter pain relief and apply Vaseline to the injured area.
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I recall once in shop class a kid drove a nail thru his hand. He yanked it out. They made him go get medical help, otherwise I’m not sure he would have LOL.
The age of the child would be helpful to make a judgement.
But, really, from the 4th grade up minimal supervision is needed. Burns with blisters. Big deal.
Cuts, burns being kick by cows and horses ect ect.
Part of every day life.
What wimps city people are.
I recall once in shop class a kid drove a nail thru his hand. He yanked it out. They made him go get medical help
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H.S. Junior year, we had just gotten our class rings. A class mate and friend of mine was going out the door of English class, he jumped up and slapped the over head door jamb and there was a screw head sticking out, far enough to hang him by his brand new class ring. He was hanging about a foot off the floor, screaming like a banshee, another class mate and I lifted him up enough so he could free himself.
He was taken for medical help with a broken finger and stitches to the finger. That was 1962, he’s still living and we’re still friends at 78 years old. He has a stiff ring finger, right hand with a scar on it to this day.
That’s what I was thinking, too. I live in a country where, until recently, the main mode of transport was on motorcycle. It was a rite of passage to forget the muffler is very hot and brush a leg up next to one. Kids were told then, but other kids and also adults, “Wow! That’s painful. But now, you’re one of us.”
Sympathy is found in the dictionary. Suck it up and move on.
There’s more to this story.
Yep. Parents really shouldn’t worry so much. I’d hate to have had those kind of parents. I could imagine them freaking when I burned my arm on a hot lawnmower engine, turning the skin an ashen white color. Or when I worked at a beer and wine store — all kinds of cuts, bumps, bruises and a blood blister to boot from pinching a finger pad in the walk-in cooler door.
Seen the same thing multiple times …not to the extent of firing.
Kids will be properly advised how to do something. Then either willfully not follow rules or have a simple accident (drop something…have something slip in their hands) and get even a minor injury.
Parents will then come after the teacher.
Your friend was lucky. I worked with a guy who had no ring finger on his left hand, not even a stump. He fell when jumping down off a dozer and his wedding ring got caught on the handrail. Stripped all the flesh off the finger.
So many stories, so little time.
Anyone that is 60 or older grew up in a society where no one ever questioned the sex or gender of another person, where small cuts, bruises, minor broken bones were taken in stride.
Without the benefit/curse of smart phones, young folks went outside and participated in a physical activity, and in doing so, got hurt and grew stronger.
The youth today, because of both technology and lack of religion in the home, are growing up without any belief in right/wrong and have no moral compass.
FReepers look at trans and see sinners, many youth see something that is not only acceptable, but superior.
With no concrete, absolute truth to accept, then there is no "right way" so make up the rules that please you, and anything goes.
So sad.
That sort of grave injury got Lurch a Purple Heart.
Our son had to go to ER from inhaling something during a teacher-led science experiment in middle school. We didn’t dream of suing the excellent school. He recovered quickly.
Did that with a piece of glass tube I was too impatient to heat properly in a lab class. Went to the ER to get the hand stitched and yet another tetanus shot (LOL) and then back to school.
At school, my daughter cut the tip of her finger off with a pair of scissors (She was cutting a lot of paper figures and stopped paying attention.). The finger bled very freely and left a permanent scar. She continued with her day and went to school the next day. The teacher called me and was more than apologetic. I told the teacher that small accidents prevent large accidents. In reply, the teacher said, “I really like teaching in a military town.”
The kids mother should have been raised on a farm.
Cuts, burns being kick by cows and horses ect ect.
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Wipe it off
Spray on some WD-40 if it is there.
Wrap on a rag or some tape.
Finish the day - Clean up at home.
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