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Re: What ever next
I agree with your basic premise, Margaret, but part and parcel of school life is taking a few hard knocks. I hated most of my time in school because I was never one of the popular kids but nobody was immune to being picked on. I don't know one person who looks back fondly on being a pupil more because of the other kids than the teachers and lessons.
When I was at primary school, absolute fear of the fourth form teacher was a superb deterrent. He would wield George the Slipper with neither grace nor gravy if anyone stepped out of line and it certainly made most of us think twice. Sadly, those days are gone.
I fear that being listed on the 'hate register' will come to be viewed as the same high accolade that ASBOs are in certain areas of the community. By the same token, it is also a system open to abuse and false accusations.
Bullying is something that should be nipped in the bud but I'm not convinced that giving teachers even more paperwork so that there can be new statistics and league tables of the best and worst schools is the way.
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