Teachers have no rights anymore: iLIVE

As to the article titled ‘Hyde Park teacher who sent pupil naked Whatsapp picture in court’, Yes, it was inappropriate to do what was done, but how is it that the 17 year boy (because teenage boys never lie) and his mother's stories are the only ones that came out?

Did anyone actually listen to the teacher's side of the story? Did anyone recover the numerous deleted Whatsapp messages from the gay son to the teacher to find out the true story?

How is it that the boy who is almost 18 is completely innocent in the whole event?

Children somehow get away with threatening teachers on so many occasions and teachers don't have a leg to stand on anymore.

Every few weeks there is a video of a student shooting or beating up a teacher and the teacher cannot retaliate without being suspended or arrested.

On another instance a student put nude pictures of himself on a teacher's desk. I don't see that he was listed as a sex offender, nor will he ever have a problem finding a job one day.

When did this all start happening and why do children think it's fine to ruin another person's life because they failed an exam, the term or the year and feel the need to get revenge any way possible?

It seems to me that teachers have absolutely no rights anymore.

I had a dream of becoming a teacher from a young age, but as discipline was removed from schools in the ‘90s things have gone downhill. In most lower and middle class households both parents work just to put a meal on the table, which means many children don't they see their parents long enough to speak to them about what's happening in their lives.

This is one of the primary reasons for the increase in drug use, alcohol abuse, suicides, violence, depression and anxiety in children over the years.

The only way to keep a child a little more secure nowadays is to home school them which also disrupts their social behaviour.

Very few parents know exactly what their children get up to and where they are all of the time without a tracking device on their phone.

When I was young I was too scared to disobey my parents or not do my homework because a discipline system was in place. I never thought about hurting a teacher in anyway because I respected my elders and was raised correctly.

There are far more serious crimes going on currently that aren't even noticed.

Only a small percentage of murderers and rapists are caught in South Africa. I won't mention the number of rapes (by students) that happen in schools alone on a daily basis that school corporate bodies do absolutely nothing about even after one goes to the police.

So how is this made into a bigger deal than drug/alcohol abuse, rape and murder?