The Headmaster from Hell

I salute any Head of a school that attempts to instill respect for rules and provides a good all round education.

So long as he really does take into account those students who really do have additional needs of all kinds.

A local school near us has recently been castigated (Secondary school) for not allowing toilet passes during lesson time, one student wet themselves during a lesson when refused a pass.

their parents go into school with them for the day
No way! I'd be suspended:
a) for not using the correct "new" words and
b) for knowing more academically than some of the teachers (judging by DGD's work) and
c) needing coffee on tap

I'll be with serious thought later - I'm out today, just on a coffee stop!

*back later

escaped

^their parents go into school with them for the day^
No way! I'd be suspended:
a) for not using the correct "new" words and
b) for knowing more academically than some of the teachers (judging by DGD's work) and
c) needing coffee on tap

I'll be with serious thought later - I'm out today, just on a coffee stop!

😁

I'd be told off for talking in class.
Asking the teachers awkward questions.

Btw Caldicot has only one 'l' - at least I'd get that correct!

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

I don't know if the school is though...
I only heard about him/the school last week I think.

I know he does Saturday detentions and in some cases has the parents follow their children in the lessons.

No self respecting teen would like that!

Apologies, this info was in your original po

*post!

I think you mean one "t".

That's 100 lines for you. 😆

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.

Allira

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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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

We need more headmasters like him

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

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

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..

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🤣

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.

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