Originally Posted by shakermaker (Post 602581)

For me, the priority of education is good teaching and producing 'well rounded young people', whatever that disgusting cleché means. Teachers should make clear the value of punctuality when in the classroom. Teaching time should not be wasted running around town after truants (especially when teaching standards are poor anyway), nor should they rely on members of the community to act as truant officers. If a pupil is late then give them a detention, if consistently late or absent then ring home and inform parents and ask what's going on. Running around on a man hunt is not good use of a teacher's time and more of a robbery of taxes in my mind, katex.

Originally Posted by garinda (Post 602587)

Fact.

We know the pupils should have been in school at that time.

We do not know if the teacher should have been in school.

Fact.

Originally Posted by katex (Post 602562)

Just to go a little off-thread myself. Just been up to our local Co-op. Was in the long queue. Lady came in to report a lad chucking oranges around.

The lad came in .. started to walk out with the orange. Naturally, one of the assistants asked if he had paid for it. Lad replies .. "found on the floor" Was sternly asked to put it back please !

This was a telling off in public. She then went on to say to him "Will tell yer Dad about this!". Know this lady, and she will !

Point is ? This shop is part of the community and felt the right to tell him off in front of other people. Know you will dissect this little anecdote, but that is how most local shopkeepers are.

Ok .. a thief, but kids who take unauthorised time off from school are thieving us as tax payers.

Originally Posted by shakermaker (Post 602589)

Even if the teacher wasn't on timetable, they would have had something better to do rather than going to the butty shop to hunt down truants. Such as marking homework or preparing a lesson. Fact.

Originally Posted by shakermaker (Post 602589)

Even if the teacher wasn't on timetable, they would have had something better to do rather than going to the butty shop to hunt down truants. Such as marking homework or preparing a lesson. Fact.

Originally Posted by garinda (Post 602564)

Would the same people also think a teacher was wrong for rebuking absent pupils if they were sat in a pub, having a pint and eating a pork pie, when they were supposed to be in school?

Originally Posted by jambutty (Post 602590)

Yes it was but it was a telling off by a person working in the shop who would have the authority to ask if an item had been paid for and not an outsider rushing in.

So if you were trying to draw a parallel then it hasn’t worked.

Originally Posted by jambutty (Post 602593)

Yet another facetious remark from a self proclaimed wit, with a “t” at the beginning.

If they were in school uniform they would hardly have been allowed in a pub let alone drinking and eating.

Originally Posted by garinda (Post 602591)

No, it's a supposition, or at a push an opinion.

1/10.

Must try harder.

Originally Posted by Tin Monkey (Post 602592)

That's not a fact, that's speculation.

Originally Posted by shakermaker (Post 602597)

I maintain that it is a fact. I don't believe a teacher would ever have nothing better to do than to search the local butty shop for truants.

Originally Posted by Tin Monkey

The guy's a first class knob and he proves it time and again. Pure and simple.

Originally Posted by shakermaker (Post 602599)

It's getting a bit intense this.

I've got it, Colonel Mustard in the library with a wrench

Originally Posted by garinda (Post 602579)

Perhaps he's read what's been said by the Headmaster in the newspaper, and then decided to post his opinion.