It’s not enough that teachers are hit,bullied and sued. Now they have to sustain parents informed using smartphonesAnother strange teaching aid has wormed its way into UK schools – the Class Dojo “behaviour tracking” app. At first I thought it might be a handy wheeze, a sort of spying device, and bugging the classroom and at last revealing the truth approximately what really goes on in there. Did teacher really shove/shout at/bully/snooze at his/her desk or pick on exiguous Bobby,or not? I feel rather sensitive approximately this problem, having been unjustly accused, and as a teacher,of “marking my Sandra’s neck for life” and “throwing my Tony in the corner”.I promise I did neither, but parents often believe what their child tells them and reach rushing in, and roaring at –or punching – the relevant teacher,before checking whether the accusation was a porkie or not. It was infamous enough 20 years ago, but now parents seem to be even more ferocious when protecting their children. An ex-headmistress chum recently begged me to report on the enormous amount of punching, and bellowing,and now suing, of teachers, or which is going on.
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Source: theguardian.com