My son has just finished Bexley Grammar
Absolutely nailed his IB.
His maths teacher suggested they meet for a pint this evening.
Class all meet in pub to show their appreciation of his efforts in the class exceeding expectations.
Up pops Mrs Stupid who indicates this is not allowed under guidelines.
FFS, they are all 18 and grown adults.
Teacher comes in and apologised saying he wasn’t allowed to continue the get together.
If they all met in the street tomorrow and suggested having a pint, that would be deemed ok.
Thank fuck my son and his mates can see the idiocies in this schools stance.
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When I worked for Greenwich Council on my term breaks some 20 years ago, we weren't even supposed to have a beer at lunch time. Was that woke?
There is stuff you just ain't allowed to do, I would be more worried that the educator in question, didn't realise he would kop shit for it!
Who was Mrs Stupid? Sounds like a right jobsworth.
When we got our A-Level results every Bexley Grammar school teacher came back with us to the Moon & Sixpence in Welling and we all got rather hammered, way back in 1994. Happy days.
My daughter just finished her A-Levels at Gravesend Grammar (for Boys - she switched sixth forms from Mayfield Grammar after GCSEs) and the teachers laid on a BBQ on the school premises to celebrate the end of the A-Levels. I vaguely remember my daughter saying they couldn't go to the pub with them until they'd officially left the school. I'd have to check what she said though. Probably safeguarding and all that. Who knows in this day and age now huh?
Also intrigued - do they give out the IB results early? Because thats a massive advantage to those getting their A-Level results on the 17th Aug. I work in an Academic Department at Imperial College and we're under an embargo that we know the results but we're not allowed to tell anyone or discuss their places with them until the results go public on the 17th. If we get caught telling anyone, its a major offence and we could get barred from getting the results as early as we do.
(PS) Was it Mr Watkins? If so, he was the year below us at school
It is closer to threatening.
Stay woke everybody, the racists are all around, often in disguise.
Maybe just stick to the original subject eh?
Can you explain why you have personalised? Are you a professional attack dog? If you are it must be such hard work.
Then applying the word ‘woke’ to silly things undermines the strength of the term as being about standing up to racists.
A teacher being warned or stopped from being over familiar with students is it’s own issue about power relationships and so on, it is nothing to do with wokeness as has been suggested.
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What any individual adult does in their own personal time is a matter for them.
However within in any formal organisation any person of authority/ influence be it in education, coaching or the normal workplace has a duty of care notably to those of a certain age in not putting them at risk. Does it happen? Of course it does. However if you as the person in authority choose to influence others you do so at YOUR own risk.
25yrs ago my brother was a Partner in a Civil Engineering Company who having won a very good contract, on the spur of the moment, chose to take the office staff out for a celebratory drink. A relatively new 18yr old clerk not wishing to be seen to be unsocial was coerced into joining the group and unfortunately drank to excess to the point of needing hospital attention.
My brother as the authority figure spent a very uncomfortable few hours at the hospital as the young man slowly recovered. The Medical staff made it very clear they were hugely unimpressed positioning he had breached a basic duty of care. Had the lad needed to have been kept in overnight they would have informed the police.
I suggest no two sets of circumstances are ever really the same (no one can really know how any young person can handle their drink) thus a risk exists. Whether you wish to take or mitigate such risk is entirely up to you.
There's a residual power imbalance in the teacher/pupil relationship so I can see why it might be frowned upon and subject to some safeguarding measures.
I say this as someone who was bought beer (when underage) by teachers on a school trip. No one was harmed, no one lost their job but thinking about it it was a pretty daft thing for them to do even back then.