Prepare to weep.
Last week a drowning wet London employment Tribunal dismissed a claim for unfair dismissal by a primary school teacher, Charlotte Moore.
It transpired Charlotte had entered her mixed-race classroom to find the kids in full cry, as is their timeless universal wont when temporarily left to themselves.
Calling for quiet Charlotte told them they were “acting like a bunch of chattering monkeys”. One of the kids inexplicably mentioned this to his mother, who promptly lodged a complaint to the police.
Rightly, the police ignored it but not the school who sacked Charlotte for, (brace yourselves) racism.
My god, what a half-way decent lawyer would have made of that nonsense. For a start monkeys are not a race but a separate non-human animal species. Imagine the tribunal’s fainting fits had Charlotte compounded her crime and perhaps added, “I want you all to be quiet as mice”.
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Oh my….
Fair enough, but you need to hear the whole story around her other actions: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c0k4ndnz4vpo
Need to hear both sides of the story…
People in Britain are now being imprisoned for posting opinions on social media which may cause hurty feelings in others, whereas those committing actual crimes involving violence are of no interest to the police.
Perhaps Charlotte Moore would have received a promotion or award, if she had praised her students for being as “wise as owls”.
How times have changed. When I was in primary school in the mid-70s, our classroom happened to be the one that was furthest from the staffroom. This meant that we could engage in epic crayon fights before school with high speed waxy projectiles flying hither, thither and yon.
A lookout at the door would keep an eye out for the teacher and the cry “here she comes” would signal an end to the battle and we would quickly return to our desks and await in innocent silence for her to enter the classroom.
The teacher would then arrive and line the entire class up to get the strap as punishment. Fortunately she lacked the vigour with the strap that some of the other teachers employed and our 7 year old hands survived mostly unscathed.
And they wonder why people don’t want to be teachers…
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