| It's "must do
better" city for the Executive’s stats wallahs this week, when Peter Peacock the
Education Minister said that reports of violence against teaching staff in Scotland’s
schools had been greatly exaggerated. Mr Peacock called for schools to change their
reporting methods in tracking assaults against staff. In future, it is thought that
heidies will be given a set of new options to select in describing the state of discipline
within their schools. As in, tick one from the following:
- The school is an earthly paradise, where teachers
and pupils lounge ‘neath the sheltering canopy of olive trees, playfully engaging in
Socratic dialogue.
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- The school is a futuristic space station, where rationality rules supreme and pupils
dressed in shiny space suits sit quietly at supercomputers all day and refuse to go home
at half three.
- The school is a sweeping verdant Elysium where seldom is heard a discouraging word and
the skies are not cloudy or grey.
Meantime, the current, less cheerful report, states that a teacher is subject to verbal
or physical abuse every 14 minutes in Scotland’s schools.
The teacher concerned, Miss Abernethy who takes Fourth Year for Maths, reckons
she’s being picked on. |
