The Headmaster from Hell

I often have to take the bus and have to listen to a barrage of loud foul language from the pupils.
I'd hate to teach them .
On one occasion, I was mocked for thanking the driver.
On another ,I was really lucky not to have been shoved off the pavement and into the busy road-that really shook me up.
So I'm glad that a headmaster is trying to do something about the bad behaviour in his school .
May others follow his example.

Not all children benefit and thrive in a strict, regimented school. Not all children are disruptive hard-nuts. Some more sensitive children are traumatised and put off education forever.

My poor grandaughter had so much trouble with short skirts She was very tall and long legged and the skirts to fit the waist were short on her A correct length skirt would be falling round her ankles

What a brave head teacher. Any parent who cares at all about their children would support him. The trouble is there are too many who don’t care in the right way.

My DGD recently went to Secondary school, she was so excited thinking of all the different subjects and teachers.

It is a different story now she is there, only the maths lessons are in sets, she learns a lot and really inspired by the teacher and other pupils. In all the other subjects they are mixed levels and she feels a lot of time is wasted on kids who just show off and don’t want to be there.
It must be just as frustrating for the teachers as it is for most pupils.

Ebenezer may not be perfect but he does seem to be on the right track.

westendgirl

Tell them to find another school , I should think, Namsnanny.

Is it possible to do that?

The threat of my mother being beside me in class would have brought me into line sharpish! Oh, the humiliation...

Good for him. He is a brave and sensible man.

Tell them to find another school , I should think, Namsnanny.

Before he came this school was a failing school with teachers going on strike because of the level of violence they suffered from pupils.

Anyone taking over a school like this is going to have to go in and be really strict and unbending right from the start, it is the only way you will change things. I have no doubt that once he has turned round the school, the regime will lighten slightly.

The children and parents interviewed on the BBC news item seemed very happy with the changes. A strict school like this gets far better outcomes compared with one where the students run the school by running a continuing campaign of violence and disruption.

Allira

^He is an evangelical Christian and writes for an evangelical magazine/paper^.

I don't know if the school is though ...

It's an ordinary LA Comprehensive school in an ordinary little country town but has had a lot of problems with discipline such that some parents would not send their children there.

Interestingly, one of the Chasers taught there for a while as a supply teacher - Mark Labbett. Perhaps they should bring him back, he's enough to terrify anyone.

I don't know Katherine Burbalsinghs religious beliefs, but she seems to hold the record for one of the best if not the best school results.

What will he do when a parent can't or won't stay in school with their child I wonder. Extra homework, clean your own bathroom floor with a toothbrush maybe🤣

Allira

Yes, the school was in desperate need of a leader who would bring back discipline and order. About eighteen months ago the school was in the news when teachers went on strike over concerns for their safety because of violence and abuse.

It really is time violence, abuse, absenteeism was addressed in many schools, not just this one.

So many girls, too, think that thick makeup, false eyelashes, false nails and skirts showing their backside are required in order to make them "feel better about themselves". That is really sad.

Kayleigh Moore, who attended the school as her daughter, was refused entry to classes for her skirt, eyelashes and makeup, said she had refused to take the year 10 pupil home “as she is entitled to an education”.

Ms Moore, of Caldicot, said her daughter was handed a new skirt, from the school, and told to wear it. Other parents have also reported their daughters being told to change into school provided skirts.

She said her daughter wears make up to “feel better about herself”

BBC June 2023

It seems to be the norm now, now just at this school.

I wouldn't like to see the kind of discipline which was usual when I was at school years ago but it seems to have changed drastically in the time since my own DC were at school.

Sounds like a mother on the edge of encouraging MH issues..

As long as they don't bring back those ghastly gymslips!

We had to have skirts that touched the floor when we knelt....
Just an aside.

We need more headmasters like him

Yes, the school was in desperate need of a leader who would bring back discipline and order. About eighteen months ago the school was in the news when teachers went on strike over concerns for their safety because of violence and abuse.

It really is time violence, abuse, absenteeism was addressed in many schools, not just this one.

So many girls, too, think that thick makeup, false eyelashes, false nails and skirts showing their backside are required in order to make them "feel better about themselves". That is really sad.

Kayleigh Moore, who attended the school as her daughter, was refused entry to classes for her skirt, eyelashes and makeup, said she had refused to take the year 10 pupil home “as she is entitled to an education”.

Ms Moore, of Caldicot, said her daughter was handed a new skirt, from the school, and told to wear it. Other parents have also reported their daughters being told to change into school provided skirts.

She said her daughter wears make up to “feel better about herself”

BBC June 2023

It seems to be the norm now, now just at this school.

I wouldn't like to see the kind of discipline which was usual when I was at school years ago but it seems to have changed drastically in the time since my own DC were at school.

They have denied they measured the skirts. I don't see he is doing anything wrong but they all go to college anyway and wear off the shoulder crop tops with see through leggings and crocs

Sounds like proper standards are being instilled. Good for him.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cq5590l2njzo

Last year

Some pupils say they have had their skirt length measured, with one parent claiming up to 200 pupils were denied entry to class.

Girls have also been handed face wipes to remove make-up and clippers to cut nails, it is claimed. One 14-year-old said she was ordered to have her skirt measured by a male teacher.

My son started acting up in school at 15 I paid a visit to the head of year and the class he misbehaved in. His work was appalling I was not happy as he was just showing off trying to be clever with his friends. I gave both teachers my number and told them call me if there were any problems and vowed to sit in class every day with him if need be. Head of year said I wish all parents were like you.
I broke this fabulous news to my son when I got home,he was horrified and couldn’t believe I had given them my number to call work. Funny but his work improved and so did his behaviour I never did get a phone call.

He is an evangelical Christian and writes for an evangelical magazine/paper.

I don't know if the school is though ...

It's an ordinary LA Comprehensive school in an ordinary little country town but has had a lot of problems with discipline such that some parents would not send their children there.

Interestingly, one of the Chasers taught there for a while as a supply teacher - Mark Labbett. Perhaps they should bring him back, he's enough to terrify anyone.

escaped

I think you mean one "t".

That's 100 lines for you. 😆

😂😂😂

Oh dear, an own goal!

Waiting for the Ibuprofen to work but that's no excuse.

Allira

Great stuff!

Punishments need to be well thought out and executed…..never empty threats.

Our son was very badly behaved once at school, he and his friends were really rowdy at 3.00am in the dormitory, their housemaster whose quarters were next door got up and read them the riot act, he thought they had got away pretty lightly.

A week to the day their housemaster entered the dormitory at 3.00am, calmly woke them all up and took them in their pyjamas to the library where they had to write lines for an hour.

A lesson learnt and never repeated.

I think you mean one "t".

That's 100 lines for you. 😆