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Originally Posted by Guinness
Teachers have been in a position of authority for a couple of hundred years, can't recall a single instance of a criminal citing a teacher to blame, or of a single person saying that a teacher devastated their life.
You cannot equate the serious case reviews of Baby P and Victoria Climbie, (they were combined multiple failures of parenting, healthcare professionals, the police and god awful communication between departments), with a teacher who through poor training or instinctiveness holds a pupils hands down.
The teacher/pupil relationship should work both ways, with mutual respect, unfortunately some kids just ain't interested. They are more up to speed with what teachers can and cannot do thanks to the internet and social media, and being kids they push, push, push to the edge. Teachers cannot adapt to a typical teenagers behaviour because your typical teenager changes their behaviour constantly.
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I think you are right and wrong at the same time here Guiness. Certainly teenagers like anyone else will use the system as much as they can to gain from it, and someone simply holding a kid's hands down should not be fired. However teachers are people and can be as evil, cracked and damaged as anyone else, so can certainly have a detrimental effect on those they teach.
As for anyone alleging that a teacher devastated their life, it does not take a lot of searching to find such claims. Whether they are true or false is another matter. Take this for example.
Bad Teacher Ruined What Could Have Been My Life? : I Have Been Emotional Abused Story & Experience