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This petition is now closed, as its deadline has passed.
We the undersigned petition the Prime Minister to change the law to enable teachers to punish children in a manner that will stop disruptive children from preventing teachers to properly teach and children to properly learn. More details
Submitted by Peter Stokes – Deadline to sign up by: 19 March 2009 – Signatures: 145
More details from petition creator
It isn’t possible for teachers to effectively teach in a classroom constantly disrupted by children who are aware that no authority figure will touch them or attempt to control them for fear of being assaulted or ending up in court with their careers put on hold or in shreds. All children are aware of this fear and, rightly so, despise parents, teachers, our boys in blue and society at large for not having put an end to this sorry state of self-inflicted humiliation.
Current signatories
Peter Stokes, the Petition Creator, joined by:
- Benny Lovatt
- bring back the cane :-)
- Chris Caven
- L MacDonald
- PAUL JAMES
- Dominic Branford
- Robert Martin
- Chris McInnes-Crawforth
- Ian Johnston
- Geoff Buswell
- Martin Budden
- chris
- Graham Peate
- anne goddard
- peter cook
- C G Pope
- andrew prosser
- Ann Thomas
- Isabel Guthrie
- Daniel Hewson
- Philip Glover
- Annette Milnes
- John Holden
- mandy walker
- J RICHARDS
- Morag Henderson
- Matt
- Dick King
- S King
- Jeff
- Ms S Bailey
- M.Hammond
- rowena grainger
- Thomas Higgins
- JASON BUXBAUM
- Jack Fletcher
- Archie Turnbull
- angus ridley
- T. Carbis
- K Stanley
- Andrew Constantine, Free England Party
- louise groarke
- Claire McQueen
- Douglas Milnes
- Pauline Luckett
- Anne Morton
- James
- Derek Bennett
- Rosemary Bennett
- Jeanette Davies
- WILLIAM MCFARLANE
- Abdullah Rhodes-Taylor
- alan robinson
- John Kerr
- Vanessa Trentham
- dp
- Simon Pople
- Roy Mobsby
- Barry Flack
- Emma Ford
- Caroline Hallett
- Kay Lennox
- Scott Langham
- Andrea J Chee
- Mike Selby
- Heidi Worth
- Ian Mole
- Mark Wilkinson
- Paul Astle
- Susan Eves
- Julie Allcock
- susan page
- Trevor Barker
- kenneth waring
- Robin B----
- michele aston
- Lesley Warren
- Kerry Davies
- Jackie
- ryan murphy
- R August
- nicola grant
- Mandy House
- P
- Tony Gurney
- Gillian Lucraft
- David Griffiths
- Mike Clark
- Alice Dexter
- Richard Carling
- P Willey
- jo beale
- Grace Read
- BERTRAM CHARLES ROGER RENOWDEN
- Walter Phimister
- John Annan
- Brian Varney
- Katharine Whitham
- Thomas Wiggins
- M. Nouch
- Philip Cronin
- Rodney A. Stansfield
- Graham Greenwood
- A Patel
- DENIS HAWKINS
- Serife Kadir
- Stephen Pirrie Barrie
- Lesley Christmas
- Kenneth Carlson
- Ian Selley
- S Adams
- Emma Kyte
- FRANK ROOKLEY
- Giles Cattermole
- andrew anderson
- J Cheney
- Tony Morris
- Berin Casey
- Cecily Gabriel-Pullen
- Phil Barton
- Grace Ingram
- Phil London
- Nikki London
- Anne Graves
- Nicholas Barefoot
- Adrian Portway
- deborah holloway
- victoria third
- Umbrage
- ann wright
- angela kadeer
- Elaine Hardwick
- PETER HOWARD
- igor sternal
- Michael Anthony Harding
- Sean Williams
- julie kirkham
- DIANE RUSSELL
- s.magon
- J Woods
- Steven Murray
- V.Jones-Wood
- p addison
- John Jolley
