Vizzini: HE DIDN'T FALL? INCONCEIVABLE.
Inigo Montoya: You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.
You know when so many people use a word or a phrase over and over again in the wrong way or the wrong situation it ceases to have any meaning or connection to what it was originally intended to convey, a bit like ‘decimate’ so it seems to have happened to ‘Human Rights’
Family told to pay £225 after boy breaks teacher's Tiffany necklace
from the article
The school's head, Sashi Sivaloganathan, is said to have told Zak's parents that it was a teacher's "human right" to wear whatever they chose to school, no matter how impractical.
Mrs Marquand said: "What about my son's human rights? He has a disability, it isn't his fault he behaves the way he does."
Sigh
You really want to give them a High Five
In the face
With a chair
If ever there was a case where all parties needed their heads knocked together...
ReplyDeleteI find the whole thing highly suspect; a teacher is given a heart-shaped necklace costing £225 by other members of staff? Who spends that much on gift for a work colleague?
And what's more (leaving aside the fact that it's a design more appropriate for a teenage girl), she decides to wear it in the classroom.
The child's excuse - regardless of special needs - is that he is a child; it's less obvious what entitles all the adults involved (including the head) to behave in an equally immature fashion.
Incidentally, great film; great character!
Oh, and all the best for next week!
An afterthought; who gets to keep the old necklace?
ReplyDeleteAgreed that the school and the teacher are a bunch of dicks but when I hear things like:
ReplyDelete"The eight-year-old who has attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, "
and
"He has a disability, it isn't his fault he behaves the way he does."
I think yeah right, he's a naughty child and his parents have absolved themselves of responsibility. Maybe the school is just plain sick of the kid acting up.
Someone should send in the Dread Pirate Roberts.
But Macheath - that would infringe their human right to infringe your human rights.
ReplyDelete@Macheath @Bucko
ReplyDeleteAgreed, the whole thing is a smorgasbord of Righteousness, but if I fisked the whole thing it could turn into a 1000 word essay.
@Macheath Cheers for that, looking forward to it, am now sorting out the Gortex and thermals as the first 4-6 weeks are in Leeds. Its been ages since I've been that far North, do you still need a passport, injections?