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Camden New Journal - LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Published: 3 December 2009
 
Brawlers not teachers

• THE sensationalist headline “Fired: Two teachers in party fight” on the front page of the New Journal was inaccurate and misleading.
A learning mentor is not a teacher and does not have to have the training or qualifications of one; it is a different role. Furthermore the status or job description of the other woman involved is not described at all except that she worked at the school; was she a “teacher” at all?
This inaccurate article gives the impression that teachers at Carlton Primary School were in a brawl. Although some ancillary staff in schools like to call themselves “teachers”, they are not.  Anyone with a clean Criminal Records Bureau report can apply to be a teaching assistant whereas a teacher is a professional with a degree and teacher training.
A learning mentor who “helps pupils with aggression” and gets involved in a fight is not a positive role model to the children; she would have lost all credibility.
J Everard
Address supplied, NW5


Send your letters to: The Letters Editor, Camden New Journal, 40 Camden Road, London, NW1 9DR or email to letters@thecnj.co.uk. The deadline for letters is midday Tuesday. The editor regrets that anonymous letters cannot be published, although names and addresses can be withheld. Please include a full name, postal address and telephone number. Letters may be edited for reasons of space.

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