CLAIMS OF ATTACKS BY TEACHERS SOAR.Byline: RICHARD GARNER Education Correspondent THE number of teachers questioned by police over claims they assaulted pupils has gone up 50 per cent, it was revealed yesterday. The National Union of Teachers said at least 180 of its members had been quizzed this year - up from 120 a year. But only four cases ended up in court. NUT Nut, in Egyptian religion Nut (n  t, nŭt), in Egyptian religion, sky-goddess. She was the sister-wife of the earth god Geb, to whom she bore Osiris, Isis, Set, and Nephthys. lawyer Kay Jenkins blamed the rise on the growing
"compensation culture".
She added: "There are many cases where teachers are completely exonerated but feel they cannot go back to teaching." The NUT wants a meeting with Education Secretary David Blunkett David Blunkett (born 6 June 1947) is a British Labour Party politician and has been Member of Parliament for Sheffield Brightside since 1987. Blind since birth and from a poor family, he rose to become Education Secretary from 1997 to 2001, and then Home Secretary from 2001 to to discuss the rise in the allegations. It wants him to change the rule so that teachers are automatically suspended sus·pend v. sus·pend·ed, sus·pend·ing, sus·pends v.tr. 1. To bar for a period from a privilege, office, or position, usually as a punishment: suspend a student from school. only if the allegations are of sex abuse - most accusations are of physical assault. Ms Jenkins said: "The police do not deal with assault cases quickly. "They will say it's not a murder or a serious burglary burglary, at common law, the breaking and entering of a dwelling house of another at night with the intent to commit a felony, whether the intent is carried out or not. - all it is is an allegation The assertion, claim, declaration, or statement of a party to an action, setting out what he or she expects to prove. If the allegations in a plaintiff's complaint are insufficient to establish that the person's legal rights have been violated, the defendant can make a of a slap or a pull. "It may be two months after an incident before the pupil is interviewed when there is little chance of a small child having a good recollection of what happened." |
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