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Fired Sports College Teacher Made Late Students Do Push-Ups

March 21st, 2010

A British schoolteacher has been suspended after making his pupils do push-ups as a punishment for arriving late to class, Britain’s main teaching union said on Thursday.

Ian Jennison, a representative for the National Union of Teachers, said the suspension could have a negative impact on how teachers dealt with their students in the future.

“It’s political correctness gone mad. The repercussions are quite far-reaching,” Jennison said. “If this man is sacked for this, teachers are not going to take kids on trips, if two kids are having a fight they won’t intervene, because they will be too worried.”

Jennison said different punishments for latecomers had been discussed by the whole class and that it was the pupils who had suggested push-ups.

The Derby Moor Community Sports College, where the unnamed teacher worked, said an investigation was underway and that its “priority is to ensure that students are happy to be in school.”

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  1. April 6th, 2010 at 13:41 | #1

    It's all political correctness crap — gone overboard. All it takes is one whiney parent and the schools cower.

  2. yoich
    April 7th, 2010 at 18:25 | #2

    I don't know why we're been so tolerant to this "religion of peace"…. if Islam is so peaceful, why are muslim countrys in such a mess?

  3. May 21st, 2010 at 14:41 | #3

    In nature there are neither rewards nor punishments – there are consequences.
    –R. G. Ingersoll

  4. hey
    June 16th, 2010 at 11:07 | #4

    Right on Klavan!

  5. klopo
    September 11th, 2010 at 14:28 | #5

    yes :D I forget what video but one of them said that it is.

  6. bourseti
    September 26th, 2010 at 20:54 | #6

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