I just want to have a feeling about what is right, wrong or acceptable behaviour by a Swiss first grade teacher in a Swiss school. Both of our boys have had problems after we moved to a new area and school. We have heard on several occasions and it was mentioned by another parent that the teacher has marched the child (ren) not only ours but others out of the class on several occasions when they have misbehaved in class by the grabbing them on the backs of their necks. Is this type of behaviour by the teacher in a Swiss school acceptable or are such things here tolerated? Sorry the child is 7, just wrote 6 in haste!

If he learnt his lesson, and no damage was done, then all is well that end's well.

Kid gloves do not work. Back to basics. No pussy-footing around.

No, I can assure you that such things are not tolerated in Swiss schools.

I find that deeply shocking, if it's true.

this is not normal. you should have a meeting with the teacher and ask her what is the school policy in case child is misbehaving/ not following instructions etc.

It's hearsay. Do you have actual evidence of this?

god where are the days we would get slapped on the back of the head or a slap on the fingers with a ruler (and Im only 27 so not that long ago) how times have changed imo for the worse.....

Im in ........

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I'm not exactly a grey haired old bluffer - although the hair is going a bit George Clooney - but there was nothing wrong with this style of "discipline" when I was at school.

I missed the cane by a few years - and so the teachers made do with flicking chalk (with unerring accuracy) at those miscreants who played up in class.

Mind you, school has become all touchy feely ever since they got rid of the shiny toilet paper!

It's not my place to tell parents how to bring up their children, but if a trained and qualified teacher is unable to manage the behaviour of the children in his class without administering physical punishment or manhandling them, then he shouldn't really be doing the job.

Consider the size and weight of a typical teacher. Now consider the size and weight of a typical first grader. The phrase 'physical intimidation' doesn't even begin to describe it. The argument that "it never did me no 'arm" is, quite frankly, reactionary bollocks. We are not living in the 19th century any more. Slavery has been abolished, we no longer send children down the pit, and dragging first graders out of classrooms by the scruffs of their necks is no longer permitted.

As Olygirl observed, this is only hearsay, but if it is true I'd have serious concerns about the competence of the teacher involved.

I'm all for a bit of school discipline, but there has to be some kind of limitations. My daughter's classmate was slapped across the face by her teacher last year. The parents wrote a letter to the school board and the teacher "went on sabbatical" for a year. I'm not sure if any other measures were taken. All the girl did was say "ca fait chiant*" under her breath after getting a poor mark for her homework, unfortunately the teacher heard her

*"that really pisses me off"

The punishment was clearly because she got it wrong - its either "ca fait chier" or "c est chiant".
She clearly deserved the slap!

Good point. I couldn't remember the phrase exactly, I never use it myself. I normally look the geezer in the face and shout "You're really pissing me off" in my loudest English. If you get a bit of spittle on his collar, it counts double.

Sounds as though you've lived a somewhat sheltered life DB.
My daughter, a primary school teacher in a deprived part of south London was quite seriously hurt by a weapon-wielding five-year-old. and there were another 29 of the little bl*****s causing mayhem while all this was going on.
Teachers in the UK aren't allowed to touch the little tykes, even in self-defence.

I've long been planning to learn to swear in Ancient Islandic or Cherokeese or X'hi-N'babobble so people don't know what I'm saying but still get the gist.

Nowadays people mostly don't get what I'm saying but that's mostly because I talk too fast.

son of a donkey = ఒక గాడిద కొడుకు or

Yes, all this thanks to that Habeas Corpus thing and the dreaded Magner Carter. If only mad King George had kept his barons under control we wouldn't have to put up with it.

Marching a misbehaving child out of class, and not given them the option to do otherwise sounds to me like acceptable restraint, so long as pain is not being inflicted.

Slapping a child on the face is common assault.

I think you weren't paying attention in history class!

If you say so.

This thread isn't about me and my life, though, so shall we stick to the matter in hand?

Oh! You mean tracing paper!



Indeed, and standards have been in decline ever since...