“Your teachers are only human” was the title of Rod Liddle’s column in the Sunday Times recently. He went on to ask: “Are teachers not even allowed to say stuff in private?”
He was talking about the cases of some Scottish teachers who had been struck off for various wrong doings, and one who was subject to “stringent conditions” for, among other reasons, calling her pupils “beasts” in front of colleagues. Mr Liddle concluded: “They have so little recourse, our teachers; they should at least be allowed a little freedom of expression in the staffroom.”
The piece struck a chord because we have been looking at the human face of the teachers we support. We have a large array of data that tell us how many teachers contact the charity and on what kind of issue.
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