Tuesday, May 25, 2010

Going Postal, U.K. Style

Teacher tension.
The married father of two hit the boy with a 3kg dumbbell while shouting: "Die, die, die."

But the jury accepted his barrister's claims that his pupils had driven him over the edge and he did not know what he was doing when the youngster – now 15 and a known troublemaker – told him to "fuck off".

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"If it could happen to me, it could happen to anyone. There are lots of teachers who are ticking timebombs. I know teachers who, because of stress, can't hold a cup of coffee or are too frightened to cross the road."

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Harvey, who now faces a disciplinary hearing, will not be allowed to work with children again.
Good. Now he can take it out on adults. But will he be allowed to work w/ dumbbells again?

3 comments:

  1. Now he can take it out on adults.

    having just watched The Boondock Saints, I imagine him beating them with a toilet tank lid.

    wv is grace. Thought you should know.

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  2. A dumbbell-wielding society is a polite society?

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  3. Gracious Editor Remembers:

    We have scars from breaking a toilet tank cover. Sadly, not over anyone's head.

    It's a society of dumbbells, at least.

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