Teacher Jeremy Forrest found guilty

[Vipa]

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I heard he sent a text to her showing off his rippling torso and tattoo.

 

I came from an innocent age, when the idea of a teacher sporting a tattoo would have been laughable.

 

Standards, what standards, they never seem to go up, only down.

I take slight exception to that.. my eldest son and my eldest daughter are both teacher trainees, they are both consummate professionals and will make incredibly good, effective, caring educators (would have laughed at my self saying that 5 years ago!) and they both have (my son especially) plenty of tattoos! Tattoos, whilst not being particularly attractive to our generation are a fashion statement of the 21st century.... not a slip in standards!

Edited June 23, 2013 by Vipa

[overandunder2012]

my brothers a teacher he has a tattoo or two

Edited June 23, 2013 by overandunder2012

[Gordon R]

 

why. did they know or something

 

 

They had a word in his ear, but left it at that when he denied it. Hardly a thorough inquiry.

 

No-one took it seriously enough until it went pear-shaped.

[CharlieT]

I heard he sent a text to her showing off his rippling torso and tattoo.

 

I came from an innocent age, when the idea of a teacher sporting a tattoo would have been laughable.

 

Standards, what standards, they never seem to go up, only down.

 

Indeed.

I used to cycle to my prep school and was hauled before the head and caned because my (new) bike was dark blue and not black as was the norm. He wrote to my father informing him that I was letting the school down by using such a garishly colored bike and I should revert to using my black one in future. I hate to think what would have happened had one of our masters sported a tattoo or God forbid an earring.

[The Ghost]

We had a french teacher who had a habit of wearing skirts no knickers and sitting on the side of the desk,her bic razor was busy judging by the view we used to get.

Yeh we had a bloke like that at school as well, the janitor.

 

The tricky maths question put to Jeremy forrest , what do you get if you put thirty into fifteen? Has been answered.

 

Five and a half.

[keg]

When a few of the "edgy" types at my school started to wear ear studs, going explicitly against school rules, the prefects and wardens were given carte blanche to rip them out. After a few days and a few bloody ear lobes, chaps stopped wearing them in school.

[keg]

 

 

Because that is the law.

Agree Gordon. She may have come onto him ( we do not know this) but the fact is he should have walked away or reported it to the headmaster. I always dreamt of being had by an older woman. We all did I think and would not have reported it had it happened. That does not make it right in law.

 

Stuart Hall got away lightly in comparison but I believe they are looking at his sentence.

[Gordon R]

keg - that is the situation in a nutshell. He knew what he should have done - as did his colleagues. None of them did and he is now paying the price.

 

I wish they would hurry up looking at Stuart Hall's sentence. I sincerely hope that it isn't the yardstick, by which others will be sentenced.

[keg]

I liken it to the thread about the magistrate and his excess ammo, we all know the rules we have to live by in our sections of society.

[Gordon R]

keg - at least the Forum legal eagle hasn't seen fit to pass opinion on this thread. :lol:

[keg]

There is time yet. Is he a genuine one?

[Gordon R]

I would be concerned if that was the case.

[keg]

Phew-- was worried for a moment he was genuine. :lol:

[unapalomablanca]

Responded to wrong post... oops

 

I take slight exception to that.. my eldest son and my eldest daughter are both teacher trainees, they are both consummate professionals and will make incredibly good, effective, caring educators (would have laughed at my self saying that 5 years ago!) and they both have (my son especially) plenty of tattoos! Tattoos, whilst not being particularly attractive to our generation are a fashion statement of the 21st century.... not a slip in standards!

you are quite entitled to take exception, to me fashion is clothing, shoes, hair, jewellery, music, foods, cars,art etc. I see no point in a tattoo, and see nothing difficult in achieving one, and who wants to copy people like becks & co. Apologies if you dont like my conservative views.

[overandunder2012]

you are quite entitled to take exception, to me fashion is clothing, shoes, hair, jewellery, music, foods, cars,art etc. I see no point in a tattoo, and see nothing difficult in achieving one, and who wants to copy people like becks & co. Apologies if you dont like my conservative views.

still dont understand what a tattoo has do with the ability to be a good teacher?

[Vipa]

you are quite entitled to take exception, to me fashion is clothing, shoes, hair, jewellery, music, foods, cars,art etc. I see no point in a tattoo, and see nothing difficult in achieving one, and who wants to copy people like becks & co. Apologies if you dont like my conservative views.

I have conservative views too una.. I really don't like tattoos.. That is not what I was taking exception to, it was the suggestion that they somehow make them lesser people and poorer teachers I was responding to

[unapalomablanca]

i dunno, maybe you just see all these people in the public sector covered in tattoos, i mean cops, fireman, teachers, prison officers, social workers, etc etc and you just sometimes wonder what they are thinking. When i referred to standards, i meant that this wouldnt have been acceptable years ago, so maybe standards have dropped, i mean the country is hardly great britain anymore. I dont think doctors and surgeons, bank managers accountants and solicitors have succumbed yet. I think your relatives are probably good teachers, maybe i am wrong and there is no relevance.

p.s. i picked up my nephew from school, and his right-on teacher has a nose stud that looks cheap. Maybe its a sign of higher standards.

 

p.p.s. I dont wish to offend, just my daily observations.

[spanj]

when we had standards police were forbidden from having tatts anywhere visible

[overandunder2012]

i dunno, maybe you just see all these people in the public sector covered in tattoos, i mean cops, fireman, teachers, prison officers, social workers, etc etc and you just sometimes wonder what they are thinking. When i referred to standards, i meant that this wouldnt have been acceptable years ago, so maybe standards have dropped, i mean the country is hardly great britain anymore. I dont think doctors and surgeons, bank managers accountants and solicitors have succumbed yet. I think your relatives are probably good teachers, maybe i am wrong and there is no relevance.

p.s. i picked up my nephew from school, and his right-on teacher has a nose stud that looks cheap. Maybe its a sign of higher standards.

 

p.p.s. I dont wish to offend, just my daily observations.

i know solicitor with a tattoo and a few medical staff they just have them where they cant be see while working

Edited June 26, 2013 by overandunder2012

[Mungler]

I'm not sure how this thread got onto tattoos, but if it's a good quality one (no ACAB on the knuckles) and nothing on the neck and hands then get one and go mad.

 

Obviously, whilst my job doesn't define me, I do recognise that if you work in an office you have to dress and present yourself accordingly.

 

Like it or not, people judge and a tribal tat over the neck and face won't go down well at Court or in school and so on.

 

My tattoo isn't visible and I am fortunate enough that I don't have a boss to appease or be judged by. If I did, I wouldn't be daft enough to risk my living or career if I recognised that a visible tattoo would be prejudicial.