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Old 12-01-11, 12:25 PM   #21
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I remember we got banned from playing with casey's in the playground after someone's volleyed shot skewed up to the top window of the gym, breaking one of the plate glass panes, sending long shards of glass down 30ft before impaling into the gym mats while the girls were doing gymnastics.

We had to play footie with tennis balls after that
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Old 12-01-11, 01:08 PM   #22
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We were only allowed to play with flyaways, probably got at least one casey a week confiscated. if we had snowball fights we were banned from going out in the snow. so that was one day out in the snow each time. best game in school was whip ups, when we were allowed on the grass in summer, one person would get nominated and chased round the feilds till someone tripped them up. Then they put some aesthetically pleasing logs round the edges of the grass and the log game was born, everyone sits on the log and last man standing (sitting) wins. The stick game, basically beating the **** out of each other with sticks, that was a good laugh. Boys will be boys, you cant go through childhood wrapped in cotton wool.
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Old 12-01-11, 01:22 PM   #23
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Too right that teacher got sacked. Totally reckless behaviour that...I mean what if the worst were to happen and a child accidently had a bit of fun or god forbid actually learnt an important life lesson.

Jeez some of the stuff we used to do at school!! (albeit without a teacher or risk assessment present)

*how high you could jump from something without breaking anything
*how far up could you get on the roof of the school
*can you get from one room to another by climbing out the windows (1st floor up)
*rugby (now that was with a teacher present and a risk assessment!!) brutal in our school!
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Old 12-01-11, 06:31 PM   #24
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The worst thing is that these health and safety fascists have cost this bloke his job and probably his career.And he has no comeback and no redress.
That's not quite true... The GTC only gave him the reprimand, it was the school that sacked him and he's got all the usual rights of redress that anyone getting sacked does for that. But as far as I can see he's not tried to bring any case of wrongful dismissal. Does kind of make me wonder if there's other previous history tbh.
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Old 12-01-11, 06:47 PM   #25
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That's not quite true... The GTC only gave him the reprimand, it was the school that sacked him and he's got all the usual rights of redress that anyone getting sacked does for that. But as far as I can see he's not tried to bring any case of wrongful dismissal. Does kind of make me wonder if there's other previous history tbh.
What happens in reality is that the GTC case gets heard after the dismissal as in this case.In other professional bodies it is often a very long time after,when the person has long since moved on with the rest of their life.
I take your point about "no redress" but if you have ever had any dealings with wrongful dismissal cases you would maybe permit me to rephrase that as no effective redress.
Now if there was "previous history"or genuine serious misconduct they should have had the integrity to say so and dismiss him for that,rather than hiding behind a health and safety infringement.
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Now if there was "previous history"or genuine serious misconduct they should have had the integrity to say so and dismiss him for that,rather than hiding behind a health and safety infringement.
Well, not neccesarily- you'd treat a further infringement more seriously if there was previous history of misconduct/bad judgement or just bad performance so it's not neccesarily a case of hiding behind it, just could be the last straw. I don't know any more than anyone else of course but it doesn't quite ring true to me. Appreciate what you're saying about the weakness of employment tribunals etc but still, not going down that route does make me wonder, personally.
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Old 12-01-11, 07:35 PM   #27
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Asbestos mats and bunsen burners, flicking mercury around the table with your fingers, handling alpha beta and gamma radiation samples without the tongues, outdoor swimming pool not closed until it went below 55 degs F, school was fun back then.
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