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Originally Posted by Gordon Booth
Safeguarding who?The young thug or the teacher?
Both. The teacher from the garbage he's currently going through and the pupil from some of the anecdotal evidence on this thread about bullying teachers
What about the young thugs inappropriate behaviour? Will that be investigated?
Should be if the school has the correct procedures in place and has governers who will support the teachers instead of sacking them.
So you avoid taking them on and they get away with it and know they can do it again?
No, you attempt to de-escalate a tense situation and deal with it under better conditions.. e.g. if a guy is threatening you with a gun, would you attack him or try to talk to him until the SAS arrived.
So the safety of the young person takes priority, followed by yours if you can?
No, your own safety is paramount, which is what Anne said, and this is the point in this particular situation that these governors have not taken into account.
If you let a bully get away with it(whether they're 5,15 or 50) they will carry on doing it. Your reasonableness is seen as weakness
Nowhere does Anne or safeguarding say that bullies 'get away with it', they are simply a set of guidelines that are meant to prevent escalation at the original point of contact when tempers are heated. There is no point arguing with anyone at 5,15 or 50 when their judgement is clouded by anger, it's just going to make the problem worse.
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As for your postscript post..the young people would not come up against out of control young persons if it hadn't been allowed to escalate to that point in the first place.
I'll say it again, nothing wrong with the principles of safeguarding, it's how they are interpreted by the untrained that's the problem.