Tbf cricketjon it will cost them 50k to go to uni thanks to the profligate generations that went before them and pissed it all up the wall.

meganstammers.com domain name has been taken

why is this such headline news  I don't get it - I suppose it excites the media types - think they should start asking questions about themselves whilst poor girls all over the country are being abused by gangs but is swept under the table STILL

she'll sell the story, he'll do a couple of months in jail and when she's 16 they'll move in together.

Don't get the objections/puzzlement re the media interest in the story. Petra summed it up very nicely imo.
Or to use an old aphorism:
Dog bites man - not news.
Man bites dog - news story.

Child abused in UK - sadly, very common. News only in extreme cases.
Child ups and runs off abroad with her teacher - somewhat less common I'd say.

To say this is a 'non-story' is bizarre. It clearly is a story that people are interested in. And rightly so.

Or on another tack that I'm surprised the Daily Mail haven't taken - this bloke has been getting paid by you and I at times when he has been, (erm, allegedly), engaged in child abuse. That's something we should be told about.

love it love it  'legal reasons' and so right

but the forensic picking over the details by Sky, in particular, is both unnecessary and sickening - keeps other more serious stuff off the news
the claim that publicising this to help her be found is no longer the excuse to spend so much time on it
they won't do this for the culturally sensitive related issues that involve more than one underage girl - more like hundreds

the pope's butler  is more important as a news item

Why is this story so much in the news as if she was in danger?

By all accounts, she went of her own free will and intended to stay. She's had a free holiday, done some sightseeing, improved her maths probably, certainly improved her conversational French and has probably experienced carnal pleasures in a better way than with the fumblings of a spotty faced youth.

the guy got married last year. Probably realised he made the biggest mistake of his life. then this young lass with large chebs comes across and he probably thinks fk it. It cannot get worse. Le Voila. Kudos to him, he took the chance.

Are you a tombstone writer The Magic Flea?

I might want a quote for mine

Teachers nationwide have all had warnings about Twitter and Facebook accounts RH - warnings from their own unions and from their employers. They are allowed them because they can't be forbidden from doing so but it's a ropey thing to do imo.
It's not just a matter of being a 'friend' of pupils or of 'following' or being 'followed' on Twitter by pupils, the problem can be more convoluted than that. Very often school staff, not necessarily teachers, are from the area around the school. They have 'friends' who are parents at the school who are, in turn, 'friends' with others and with kids at the school. The member of staff, lets say it's a TA, is friends with a teacher and very soon any lapse on privacy settings, or simply a rogue comment made after a couple of glasses of vino, leads to comments being seen by eyes that they weren't meant for, or images being seen by parents and kids that the teacher really wouldn't want to be floating round school. Falling over drunk on a summer holiday might be a vaguely acceptable occurrence for the Head of Chemistry to do; but probably not something he/she should be sharing with Year 10 kids.
School staff all over the country have been disciplined and sacked as a result of Twitter and Facebook indiscretions. The bloke in this case is a total embarrassment to the profession and some of the laissez faire comments on here defy belief.
(Some of the puns are quality though.)

Yep - somewhere in between beating them round the head with a dumbbell and sh@gging them senseless on a P&O ferry, there is a line to be drawn.

Almost as embarrassing for the profession as his child abuse is his complete feckin idiocy. In a country where isolated rented accommodation can be obtained without ever meeting the property owner and where it's dead cheap to do it out of season, this chump marches down the high street of one of France's busiest cities. Moron.

re: Crisp77  29 Sep 12 15:54   
The problem is to be a good teacher you actually have to care about the kids. Problem is I suppose drawing up the correct boundaries.


I disagree, if your primary focus is to care about the children then you should have been a social worker.  As a teacher your primary focus is to care about their education, and because you care about that, it means you run a controlled and disciplined  classroom... unlike most of the zoos that pass for classrooms these days.

Far too many young teachers want to be liked by their class, both pupils and teachers are much better off when the class is terrified of the teacher

About as far from spot on as you can get but that's the Betfair forum for you

let me guess Pandorica - completed your teacher training within the last ten years?

But on the other hand I do live in 2012.

20
Erm ... about 27 hrs

Primary or Secondary?  Pastoral care?

How on earth is that too much information?  Unless pandorica is a username you use on other sites of course...


I think pastoral care is best tackled out of the classroom by dedicated staff.  Yes, teachers should know what is going on but their job is to teach.  When I think back to my schooldays, we had teachers who were pushovers, we knew that we could easily waste a lesson if we asked them questions about their hobbies or interests.  We'd sit there pretending to be interested, but once the class was over we'd be outside ridiculing them.

Today pupils are far more savvy than we ever were, and where you have teachers who honestly believe that the best way to engage a class is to be their friend, the teaching can very quickly evaporate.  In same cases teachers are nothing more than puppets, controlled by the class bullies. 

I really don't care if a student likes or dislikes me, I care that at the end of course they will have the best qualification they're able to achieve.

Don't think I use it anywhere else but my life history is irrelevant.
I don't much mind if a kid likes me or not either but that's not the point. It doesn't mean I don't care about them - see Crispy's original post.
You seem to be confusing holistic education, with friendship, with caring.