The irony is piled high
The Guardian reported recently that teachers’ organisations rejected plans to introduce weekend detentions:
Forcing unruly students to spend weekends in school detention was a “ridiculous” idea that would only serve to increase teachers’ workload, a union has warned.
The deputy general secretary of the NASUWT says:
“There is also the irony of teachers losing their own spare time to punish the misbehaviour of their own pupils.”
But wait! There’s more irony - even if he hasn’t noticed it:
It is also understood that parents whose children were excluded from school would be called in for compulsory interviews to plan their children’s return to the classroom. If they allowed their children to skip detention, they could be issued with parenting orders, which include £1,000 fines.
And then of course there’s the irony that he hasn’t noticed the parallel irony to the irony he remarked on…
My head hurts.
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you hurt mine too.