Insanity encompassed in stupidity
A small report this morning has quoted a member of the faculty of the Derby Moor Community Sports College as saying that an investigation is under way into the behaviour of a teacher, there.
This same member said that the reason for the investigation was the desire to ensure that students are happy to be in school.
So, once again we have the spectre of an evil teacher being discovered dismembering children, do we? Or was the teacher, perhaps, selling children to the white slavers? Maybe the teacher was rendering them down to be used in the manufacture of soap?
NONE OF THE ABOVE.
The teacher has been suspended for trying to instill discipline by making pupils who turned up late do push-ups.
It isn’t clear which is the greater of the offences – attempting to instill discipline or the push-ups – but doesn’t this report leave you wondering why we bother sending our children to school at all?
What possible use can schools be to our children if teachers are not allowed to use a little imagination and harmless punishment when pupils misbehave? What possible reason can our teachers have for trying to follow their professional instincts if they must be, forever, peering over their shoulders to ensure that they have not done something which some insanely stupid ‘higher authority’ can have them suspended and held to public examination?
The asyluums must all be empty, by now, I keep thinking to myself, and then I read that yet another inmate has been discovered in a remote holding and been released into a position of authority over the future of our children.
Now we know the lines upon which the YUK is being miss-governed, the lines of insanity encompassed in stupidity.
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