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Like what? Cotton wool and hugs and kisses?
God the worlds gone soft when people cry over school kids being told to "shut up" by a teacher
**p.s. My wife's a teacher - no idea if she tells her kids to shut up but some of the stories she tells me about 5-6 yr olds in her school would certainly raise an eyebrow - they're not all little angels you know
I didnt say that, they do not need to be treated with Hugs and Kisses, but they also do not need to be told to "shut up". I tell the kids at my school to Shut up but they are 11 to 18 so they need that extra harshness.
Some of the kids I have seen at that age need more than just a shut up I agree, but slapping is not allowed.
Going into the work place and telling your boss to "shut up"? Good luck.
I can apply common sense to some situations. The OP states, students get sent to the head for saying "shut up" after all it is not a respectful way of speaking to someone. Why should it be that the teacher can say it to the students (the OPs kid even says its a "bad" word).
I think if any one of us (sensible people this is) stood at the back of a lesson and saw a (really) bad teacher you would know. I have stood at the back of many a classroom over my 7 years of working in schools and I can generally tell the bad teachers, kids chatting/being disrespectful/getting up and walking around etc.