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Now
what bothers me, to come back to this point that bothers
me, is that some teachers, in terms of their vigilance,
they are not relaxed vigilant, theyre non-vigilant.
They walk past, even in the classroom I work with teachers
who are non-vigilant. Now these are broad typologies here,
I also work with teachers who are overly-vigilant. Hey,
over here, over here, over here. I was in a school
here in Britain. Emm, I wont say where, well in Anglia
roughly, over there and I was doing some mentoring, this
was about three years ago. Anyway Im going down the
corridor with a colleague of mine who is taking me to the
staffroom, its about twenty to nine. And I saw out
of the corner of my multi-attentional field of vision eye,
a young lad walking down the corridor without a tie, which
yknow in this school, was kind of like a big thing.
And I saw a teacher walking towards him and the first thing
he did was Oi, over here, over here, why havent
you got a tie on? Who gives a stuff why he hasnt
got a tie on, at that point, what a stupid question. But
worse he didnt ask the kid, he didnt say good
morning to the lad, or ask him his name. He didnt
even usher him to the side of the corridor. They became
a quarrelling island in the middle of this, and this guy
is strutting around, this guy I found out later is a senior
teacher, hes strutting around in his overly vigilant
pose, Im sure that guys aim was to help that
lad own his behaviour and respect, at a very loose level
I suppose, the rights and responsibility about what it means
to be a member of the community in terms of uniform. But
he was not interested in building a workable, respectful
relationship with the lad.
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