Monday, July 03, 2006

Teacher's terror


Teacher Threatend
Originally uploaded by Sydney Weasel.
A 52 yo teacher's year 11 student had a gun to her head. He slowly pulled the trigger. He was suspended for 20 days, but came back after 8 days as his parents were concerned he was missing work. Teacher was expected to accept him in her class.

I know of other stories. One in particular involved a year 7 girl who claimed her teacher had commented on her breasts in class. Her parents asked the teacher to resign. The principal decided the student could remain in the same class for the rest of the year with the same teacher. Student never recanted, but continued to lobby for support in the class.
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Teachers have no protection or support when faced with such crimes. Teachers are public servants and are thrown together with their students, a small number of whom have not had good upbringing. The Department of Ed. does not do enough in NSW to support teachers.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

A FEMALE high school teacher told yesterday how one of her students held a gun to her head and slowly pulled the trigger.
As her stunned Year 11 class looked on she stared at the barrel and thought: "Oh f..., I'm going to die."

The teacher, 53, told an interviewing doctor: "His eyes were staring and his lips were tight."

The 17-year-old student tried to grab her hand and put it on the gun barrel. She pushed the barrel away, then felt the gun at her temple. She thought about her son and whether she had made her will.

"The whole thing felt like it was in slow motion," she told The Daily Telegraph yesterday.

Later school and medical authorities cast doubt and scepticism on the extent of her psychological injury, forcing her to relive those harrowing minutes.

"The school was telling me I may be expected to teach him again," she said yesterday. "But how could I have a duty of care to someone who threatened to kill me?

"He was suspended for 20 days but was away from school for only eight days because his parents said he was missing too much work."