UK Teachers Say Censor The Internet

Marlow the Irelander writes "The BBC is reporting that in response to a YouTube video of a schoolboy breaking his teacher's window (yes, this is a video), NASUWT, one of the teaching unions in the UK, is calling for legislation to control the internet. Could Britain, rather than the US, be the main front of the battle against censorship in 2007?" From the article: "Unfortunately, any yob or vandal can now have their 15 minutes of fame, aided and abetted by readily accessible technology and irresponsible internet sites which enable such behaviour to be glorified. [The general secretary of the union] said the union supported a zero tolerance approach in schools to pupils who used technology to abuse and undermine teachers, and called for more rigorous legislative control of internet sites which gave them license."

Comments

Re:Dog trainers towards conformity...

[gd23ka]

Look Mac, I know that this is from the Isle of the Kidney-Pie Eaters and Sun Readers
but the dumbing down of school children is a world-wide agenda. I suppose if you had hailed
from the Wunderbar Land of the Teuton Pork Sausage Eaters and Bild Readers you would have
demanded a book called "Die Verdummung von Deutschland".

Since you appear to have a chip on your shoulder let me round things off:

Your masters are Germans, (Haus Sachsen-Coburg) and your national anthem is in fact
a German hymn and that starts with "Heil Dir dem Siegerkranz".

Re:Dumb criminals, not bad youtube

[AGMW]

but the yahoos who accompanied him got a good ass whoopin'

I take it you don't live in the UK then. More likely they got counselling and a nice holiday somewhere warm!

You idiot

[Darkman, Walkin Dude]

This is an slanderous and discriminatory statement, breathtaking in its scope that, quite frankly, any normal person should find deeply offensive. Literally, it makes something like "all blacks are lazy" - itself a singularly racist and small-minded insult - little more than a mildly critical observation

You slobbering idiot. You realise you are saying that "discrimination" -lol- against teachers (not any kind of ethnic minority last time I checked) is breathtakingly more importantly than racism against people of dark skin? This is exactly the kind of Jesus complex I'd expect from a civil service lifer who such as yourself, regardless of whatever fairy tale you make up as a life story next. What a muppet. How does fat like this get modded up?

Why attack not only an entire profession but, indeed, anyone who has ever passed on the knowledge and experience they have to another, when all you really mean is "just like any profession, teaching has some bad apples" ?

In the teaching profession, the good apples are in the extreme minority. Of course, every teacher likes to tell themselves they are in this minority. But its easier to set up straw men than to actually face that.

Re:You idiot

[Darkman, Walkin Dude]

Hahah, look hes still talking.

No, you illiterate moron, I said it encompasses a vastly greater scope and, in doing so, scales racism against black into relative insignificance.

I never met a civil service lifer with any but a great deal of spare time to argue their own immense value, so I'm going to save you the bother and wrap it up here. You attempted to put the position of teachers in the same ballpark as the position of races which have been discriminated against. Now I understand if someone has recently tried to lynch you, shove you in a gas chamber or you have been denied jobs based on your profession, or something like that, but really, what a farce. You should be ashamed for defending such a stance. But you're so used to arguing with minors that you just don't recognise when you have had your ass handed to you.

Had you spent more time in school paying attention, instead of smugly telling yourself how much cleverer you were than the teacher, you would probably not only have been able to grasp that point, but also comprehend that "discrimination" is dependent on neither a) ethnicity nor b) proportion.

This may be a difficult concept for you to understand, tinker bell, but I really don't care about school. You might also google sophistry while you're about it. All of my comments to date have been from an objective viewpoint looking back. And when I see shitheels like you turning the violent persecution of millions into a talking point, words truly fail. I mean it. I'd have to paint a picture or something. Visualise a snot gone wrong, if you must.

Here's a heads-up, you presumptuous twat - I've never held a public service job in my life. I just have some respect for an endeavour that is one of the foundations of civilisation (and even more now I know they had to put up with an arrogant arsehole like you - assuming you've even made it out of school yet).

Now theres a steaming heap of bullshit if ever I've seen it. And again with the jesus complex - YOU OWE US! Hahahah... Innovation and creativeness are the foundations of civilistion, twerp, not regurgitating received wisdom. You are exactly all I have come to expect from the teaching profession.