Seemingly major problem at work...

div0 said:
I'd suspect that the reason you've not been told anything is that it involves an allegation made by a child at the school. I would have thought that as a teacher there was somewhere you could get advice from though. I'd imagine that there are standard procedures which all schools have to go through for particular incidents, or reported incidents. It would hope that it wouldn't be too hard to at least find out whether this was standard procedure or not.
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That's what I was thinking, although 'weeks suspension with full pay from a school' is a pretty vague google search :rolleyes:
 
Affliction said:
This :D

Nahh, I am/was an IT Technician
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are you part of a union? If so, get them involved NOW.

I'm assuming, as are others, that it's an allegation being made by a child. Really annoys me how, even if false, it can ruin a career and the child gets off scott free.

When a teacher was falsely accused at my wife's old school the staff were also told that under no uncertain terms were they to contact said person - it's all standard procedure. I believe he was told what the allegation was though, so it's strange that you haven't.
 
Nix said:
Chances are some idiot child has accused you of something.
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Which is what I was about to mention.

Is there any chance some mindless kid has pulled the pedo card or something similar? It's the sort of thing that can really screw you up when it's not your fault.
 
Nix said:
I was chatting to a bloke who used to be a teacher for 40 years at work the other day. Apparently this isn't too uncommon but the absolute pain of the situation as because it's a school, you're guilty until proven innocent. Chances are some idiot child has accused you of something.
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True, also it's one of those things that you can't really take the child's parents to court for the accusation by the child that they're responsible for..

My parents are retired teachers and thankfully have never had an accusations. It seems to be a modern thing that the kids think it's fun and sometimes attempt to extort damages from the school.

At the end of the day, if it's false then it's still the parents responsibility to control their children at school. If they think if it fails then there's no recrimination then it just reinforces the issue.
 
I'm of the mind that if you've been wrongly accused of something then you should go and actually do whatever you've been accused of to balance things out

I can see that being a problem for you though if somebodys saying you've been done paedo stuff or something
 
Affliction said:
That's what I was thinking, although 'weeks suspension with full pay from a school' is a pretty vague google search :rolleyes:
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I'm not a teacher so I'm just guessing a bit. But isn't there anywhere you can go which is a bit more reliable than google?

A union of some kind?
A specific body, or advice centre?
A senior teacher, perhaps at another school?

They won't be able to tell you what is happening in this particular case - but they should at least be able to reassure you of standard procedures and possibly give advice on what your next steps should be.
 
NickK said:
My parents are retired teachers and thankfully have never had an accusations. It seems to be a modern thing that the kids think it's fun and sometimes attempt to extort damages from the school.
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Unfortunatly, I'd imagine they're more likely to believe the kids accusations over the staff members plea of innocence :(
 
Affliction said:
Unfortunatly, I haven't joined the union yet, was planning on doing so but hadn't gotten round to it :( wish I had now.
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may not be too late, ring them up and ask.

As for not being able to sue the parent's, any legal eagles on here? What if the parent has backed up their child by repeating the (false) allegation as fact - would there be any come back for defamation?

I think any child making a false accusation should be kicked out of school poste-haste, but the problem becomes, where do you put them? I'd say borstal if we still had them.
 
If a kid said something -- then no matter WHAT the likelihood of it being a lie -- the school would HAVE TO suspend the person at the heart of the allogation immediately.

Can you imagine the alternative -- and the person DID do the nasty stuff. The Daily Mail would have an absolute field day ... full centre page spred of some crying 13 year old girl saying 'I told the school but they did nothing, and the abuse continued'.

nightmare for the school -- and probably cost the head master his job or even the school to be closed.

Nope -- nowadays they just HAVE TO suspend the guy to protect themselves as much as the kid .. it's the only option they would have whilst they investigate. On full pay -- I wouldn't be 'mega' annoyed -- I'd play computer games all week thinking 'I'm being paid for this'. When I got back to the school I'd have a meeting to ensure NONE of it affected my professionalism 1 jot. So -- nothing stored on my formal records about the incident ...
 
I was an ICT manager a few years ago, and I was asked by the head to conduct some IT-based 'research' into a member of staff. They were under the impression he had been doing something which broke the rules. I had to do all sorts regarding his user account including suspend it, and I hated having to do it. I can't even remember what he was accused of doing, but it is a horrible time for all concerned. But as has been said above, even the slightest allegation they will throw the book at you. It's guilty until proven innocent.
 
Hmm. Anything that gets you suspended is serious.

Do you belong to a union? If so, speak to them. Do you have access to legal advice? If so, then consider taking it. If all else fails, speak to the CAB.

Here's hoping that you get re-instated with a full apology.
 
Affliction said:
A week off while being falsly accused of something, and not even knowing what you're being accused of, isn't as fun as you'd think.
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No it isn't. I had five weeks off due to a suspension and it was terrible. Scared ****less about mortgage payments and putting food on the table for my family was not fun.

Thankfully it was all cleared up and I was re-instated with no blemish on my record (it was a co-worker who was at fault and had tried to use me as a scapegoat - they resigned) but it was stressful enough that it damaged my health to the point where it is only just recovering.
 
Affliction said:
Unfortunatly, I haven't joined the union yet, was planning on doing so but hadn't gotten round to it :( wish I had now.
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cant you just do that now, hope everything gets sorted !!!! and Im sure thats not right just kicking you out like that without reason ? (not firing you just asking you to go home for now)


any ways keep us updated and let us know!
 
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