[Kizzy]

Originally Posted by Ammi

...it’s interesting how during partial school closures...(...always partial because many teaching staff were still working in the schools directly with frontline healthcare worker’s children/essential worker’s children and vulnerable children, for whatever the reason for their vulnerability etc, teaching staff placed themselves at risk of an unknown virus...)...we rightly praised those teaching staff, plus all of those teachers who had to be so inventive in their on line ‘lessons’ and tasks etc...because that’s the general and collective of teaching which is sadly so often not appreciated, but in that time it was...the appreciation did fade quite a bit when it was felt that lazy teaching staff needed to stop their extended ‘holiday’ and get back into their lanes and their classrooms...but now, the calibre of teaching staff is collectively generalised and questioned/criticised because of this one awful person who has appallingly betrayed her position of trust and is thankfully going through the justice system atm...

...what’s also interesting with this...(...and I totally and absolutely and completely am not in any way condoning ...it’s just so saddening to see someone who has a position and role of ‘care’, so abuse a child...its abhorrent ...)....is that I recall other threads with a similar story but reversing it to a male teacher/female pupil and the same trust betrayals...and some responses have been along the lines of....well, 14/15yr old girls etc...(...actually children...)...can be quite provocative/I mean, they just don’t always ‘act’ like 1415yr olds/similar type comments to that...as opposed to, well, what did this appalling woman think...that, that child wouldn’t tell his mates.....even with children and with something horrendous like this, society attitudes can be so differing based on gender and it’s very saddening to see because it adds another layer to something so awful...

I agree Ammi there hasn't been the angle here as there has been in similar cases where the teacher is male. Not saying it's any better or worse but there has been no questioning of the boys character or dress as there usually is.