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Originally Posted by kestrelx
Anne you say that he would have been better dealing with the pupil by removing him from the room! But you also say that no teacher should be able to restrain a pupil without training - well how does one remove a pupil without making physical contact? So your contradicting yourself!
Also what about the human element - you get a milkshake thrown over you then possibly anticipated further attack - the response then is to protect yourself.
Also there was no complaint made by the pupil. This was all the doing of the school authorities.
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She is not contradicting herself at all. There is a difference between physical restraint and firmly guiding someone from a room. And she also stated that he reacted instictively.
Anne is simply paraphrasing guidelines, interpreted from a law, by a pen pusher, that people in schools, healthcare and even the police are supposed to follow.
As for the teachers, of whom in my opinion there are few...they have a poor system to work with, it's a 'give me a child at 7 and I'll turn him into an automaton' system full of curriculae and standards. This guy tells it like it is in a very amusing and watchable way.