Parents fight to reinstate ‘exemplary’ teacher, 38, who was sacked for tapping a chattering pupil on the head

"'I brushed his hair, that was all' ...

Following Mr Mountford's dismissal, the school's spokesman said: 'The former member of staff has been convicted of assault by beating relating to an incident with a pupil in the school. 'The school has followed its disciplinary policy. Given the nature of the offence and the criminal record that the former member of staff now has, we had no choice other than to dismiss that member of staff.'"

Petition launched to re-instate teacher Matthew Mountford after he is sacked for assaulting pupil

No wonder the education system has trouble finding teachers.

The total loss of common sense this century, by police, lawyers, schools, judges, public servants, media...

[Mr Mountford] is now considering a new career as a tree surgeon.

Very wise... very wise.

It’s staggering. In my day, you were quite likely to get a hurled wooden blackboard duster between the eyes for talking in class. No one, so far as I am aware, was permanently traumatised by such actions, and it had a deterrent effect. Many of my teachers, most of them good-hearted and clear about their authority-bearing role, would probably today be behind bars for daring touch the hair on the inviolable little heads of unruly and uncouth pupils.

We should never underestimate the catastrophic effects of postmodern intersectionalist PC victim ideology, which in universities has dominated humanities departments across the board since the 1970s onwards (including not merely the pernicious non-subject of women’s studies, which is crying out to be abolished, but law, education, social work and sociology). The natural sciences, enviably, are virtually alone in not being contaminated by its swivel-eyed dogmas.

PC intersectionalist victim ideology is pure poison: irrational, punitive and censorious, based on the subjective (narcissistic) “feelings” of imagined “marginalised groups”, not the objective and disciplined pursuit of truth. And this desperately unfortunate man’s fate is but one of its many crazy and vindictively unjust effects.

A license for judicial cruelty and a blank check for narcissistic cry-bullies, it requires uncompromising resistance every time it rears its ghastly Medusa head. I hope the people campaigning for this honourable man’s re-instatement succeed in defeating the sadistically pious clerics of PC victimology. Although, if I were him, I would never want to work with children until the pernicious ideology that has weaponised them has been convincingly vanquished.

I've been saying for years (see tune link below) - if the Devil wanted to destroy humanity, he'd start by wrecking the children.

Brilliant, JK. Just what these sourfaced, humourless zealous need to be confronted with.

When I was 10 I could chop wood build the fire in the living room set light to it all before mum and dad got in.
Climbed trees, jumped my bike over things shot my air rifle did a milk round saved up for a chopper bike stayed out all day went fishing 8 mile bike ride from home set light to the local woods allegedly. Just for fun