Comments on: Getting “Terrored”

By: “I Don’t Get It” « Scenes From The Battleground

“I Don’t Get It” « Scenes From The Battleground — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 13:38:49 +0000

[...] tendency for students to ignore all instructions and verbally abuse anyone who gives them), and “Terroring” (the intimidation of any teacher who attempts to bring about order in the classroom) provides a [...]

By: In Praise of Harshness « Scenes From The Battleground

In Praise of Harshness « Scenes From The Battleground — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 13:34:45 +0000

[...] enforcement of the rules is seen as optional for teachers then students will target teachers for “terroring” in order to intimidate them into ceasing to apply [...]

By: Just For The Record, I Don’t Hate The Kids « Scenes From The Battleground

Thu, 05 Feb 2009 13:33:21 +0000

[...] I have a particular fascination with how abnormal behaviour becomes normal. I didn’t write about “terroring” because I once got “terrored”, I wrote about it because all teachers can expect it in certain [...]

By: Detentions: Part 1 « Scenes From The Battleground

Detentions: Part 1 « Scenes From The Battleground — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 13:19:00 +0000

[...] Whether you have been targeted for “terroring”. [...]

By: zebrastophilis

zebrastophilis — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 08:32:18 +0000

There was supply teacher in the school I’m in on Friday who got well and truly terrored and they were only year 8s. I was close to being terrored in my first ever school and it is a horrible feeling. That sinking you get in the pit of your stomach; the faster breathing as they all look at you and know that they’re about to win; the chants of “Kill the pig, kill the pig.”

Well okay I might have made that last one up, but the feeling of utter hopelessness is probabaly akin to what Ralph felt in Lord of the Flies. Except nine times out ten there will be no help from a higher authority for the terrored teacher.

By: Jim Cuthbert

Jim Cuthbert — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 04:53:14 +0000

Compared to other schools that I have worked in my current school is very good. Yet some of the behaviour Old Andrew describes is the modus operandi of some children in the school. I am lucky as such children remain in the minority in most year groups and they can be temporarily dealt with by SMT. I still worry that were it not for the large number of good kids in our school that the scales good be easily tipped and behaviour would plummet.
One can only imagine what it must be like in battleground schools. I have also noticed that OFSTED grades are not an accurate gauge of behaviour in schools. I did my teacher training at an outstanding beacon school and the behaviour in at least half the classes I saw was terrible.

By: by other means » Blog Archive » low level disruption

by other means » Blog Archive » low level disruption — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 14:41:51 +0000

[...] what it can lead on to described very well here on a teachers blog (thank you Gill). I saw these behaviours starting in the higher classes of [...]

By: “I Don’t Get It” | Scenes From The Battleground

“I Don’t Get It” | Scenes From The Battleground — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 16:47:05 +0000

By: Debbie

Debbie — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 18:20:02 +0000

I just happened upon this blog. I’m a middle school teacher from Berkeley CA. Some things are universal. It just makes my heart warm thinking about all those students, world-wide, using their newly found social skills to operate as a pack to terror their teacher. I love your comments.

By: Toe-Knee-Heart

Toe-Knee-Heart — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 16:45:18 +0000

So true. So horribly, horribly true.
The worst thing is that the only solution seems to be to get used to it.

Love your blog by the way. Have you ever thought of getting it published?

Toe