A teacher 'smashed my head against a fire extinguisher'

Sky's Matt Barbet speaks to Journalist Simon Mills and consultant psychologist Dr Heather Sequeira about his traumatic childhood experiences in school.
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[@kat2023.]

I was caned, hit, had blackboard erasers thrown at me, had my hair pulled, and one teacher held me over a bannister for walking on the wrong side of the stairs. School was a nightmare for me and many others. They are not the best days of our lives for a lot of us.

[@user-wj4yk8ly1d]

In 1990 , Geoguraphy teacher , She annouced one Monday Morning that my uncle Had won the sunday s Generel election in Serbia 😊😊😊🇷🇸👏👏👏

[@user-wj4yk8ly1d]

My uncle - Slobodan Milošević 1990 😊😊😊👏👏👏🇷🇸

[@djf750]

I was told that if I ate meat on Friday and didn't confess that sin , that I would go to hell for ETERNITY, at age 7

[@user-wj4yk8ly1d]

@@djf750 Eat . Ate . Eaten

[@user-wj4yk8ly1d]

@@djf750 in my Serbia , meat , beside tiny meat for burgers , meat Is bad

[@chad0x]

Ive been beaten up by a teacher, punched in the face by a teacher, allsorts. They used to get away with all that sort of thing. Had teachers make me take my trousers and pants down before they would cane me or give me the slipper. Old headmaster laid me over his office chair, trousers and pants round his ankles then he sat shouting at me red faced from the other side of his table threatening kme with the cane so i would cry more with the fear.

[@Armanispice]

🤬🤬🤬

[@footballfan321-xt3ku]

This is why theres safeguarid g laws and things like ofsted which are supposed to make sure schools are safe whether they do is a different story

[@Paws4Thought669]

When I was ten years old a teacher smashed my head against a curtain rail and told me that I needed to pull myself together

[@user-wj4yk8ly1d]

🤔 " ... When i look back upon my life. .... It s a sin. ...." The Pet Shop Boys . 🙂👏👏👏🇬🇧

[@Freedom-Fighters-World]

I've been pinned up against a wall restrained on the floor and locked in class rooms and had my arms up my back when I was in school many years ago, it's even on records that it all happened but nothing was done about it, it was a horrible time in my life

[@cynthiac.2423]

We need these issues to be discussed more and known..and make a better training to identify such traumas available to all

[@djf750]

Dang! I thought that Catholic School in the 50's and 60's was bad.

[@user-wj4yk8ly1d]

Hellen !!!

[@janettempest716]

I was sexually abused at 3.1/2 I told my mother a man had put his wee wee in me. She was horrified and didn’t believe me and told be not to say that because i was still in the garden. But he had taken me out of the garden then put me back and she hadn’t missed me. I never told anyone till after she died and I always wonted to tell her he was a neighbours teenage son 😱I’ve never forgotten it. I tried to tell my daughter but she didn’t want to listen 😢

[@Poontang123]

Sorry to hear this

[@davidwarren9932]

😩🙏

[@LupercalRising]

Fake

[@Poontang123]

@@LupercalRising proof that it’s fake?

[@stephenball-qo7ug]

@@Poontang123 Prove that its true.

[@davidwarren9932]

Standard that back in the 80s😂

[@user-wj4yk8ly1d]

Charttered .

[@vernonkuhns3561]

"A teacher 'smashed my head against a fire extinguisher'" Pobably for not paying attention in English class...

[@janettempest716]

I have just recently been kicked and punched in Solihull hospital on my new hip I made a official complaint but nothing was done 😱

[@jillybe1873]

Contact your local Councillor, start with town then district then County, then go up to your mp

[@Poontang123]

I was made to do PE in my pants and T-shirt in secondary school in 2002! As a 13/14 year old boy highly shaming

[@Heater-v1.0.0]

Do what? I was in school in the 1960's early 1970. Sure the cane was a possibility. I don't recall anyone ever being caned. Although I did get called to front of the class for a slap in face by a female teacher at age 7, and I did get a bit of a black eye from a blackboard eraser thrown at my desk that bounced up at me, which I genuinely believe was intended to catch my attention not hit me. None of that upset me so much, No, by far my biggest fear at school was all the other boys. Bullying and violence were a constant threat. It's took years to get over that.

[@Davejazz]

Used to stick a book down before going to head teachers room in primary school

[@user-wj4yk8ly1d]

".... Used to say , .... , i Like Shoppen ...." 🙂 ( Rainny Days , Never say goodbye )

[@GerryT.]

Bully teachers will pray on what they see as the weak. They will leave alone any pupil they think would react with violence. Or they will back off when they get a reaction and won't try bullying again.

[@user-hs9ep7jx4s]

I got caned.....same old faces

[@user-js3rg9sj1k]

They distroyed my life.

[@harryboggon8718]

Was it damaged ?

[@stephenball-qo7ug]

[@joereedsmith1531]

When I was about 6 I was thrown around the principals office from one corner to the other like a rag doll for something I did not do.

[@margaretgrey4238]

We are still suffering abuse. Woke people are attacking those not like them physically and verbally singly and in groups. Media is showing videos. This happens privately by those not accepting reality and throwing tantrums as adults. Big hug all...

[@user-wj4yk8ly1d]

We Are still in a rescession , a downward spairell

[@Paws4Thought669]

I bet he was foaming at the mouth

[@user-wj4yk8ly1d]

I bet Russia s military action in Ukraine Is fading , collapsing

[@ACC_org_uk]

Ritualised punishment in controlled circumstances is not abuse.

[@johnniemoore9113]

Yes it is

[@user-js3rg9sj1k]

One headmistress forced vomited down a child,s throat.

[@williamwimbourne856]

Autisum and ADHD were not recognised in 70s and early 80s and being diffrent was a target on your back.

[@user-fo6eg7iw1b]

I. Had. The. Blackboard. Rubber. Thrown. At. My. Head. I. Was. Petrified. Of. Her. Too. Scared. To. Say. Anything. 👹👹👹👹😰😰😰😰

[@user-js3rg9sj1k]

At last some one is talking about it...

[@Grid519]

Our maths teacher made two boys, who refused to shut up, stand in front of the class and touch their toes while he came up behind them and kicked them full pelt in the backsides. The two boys were extremely humiliated. What the teacher didn't know was that one of the boys was the son of the boss of GCHQ. The teacher's corpse was found floating in a sewer the next day. Oh no sorry, I'm getting confused with a totally different story. The teacher lost his job.

[@mriggst]

It was quite normal for teachers to be caned by irate students at school.

[@user-js3rg9sj1k]

They used to lock me in cupboard.

[@stephenball-qo7ug]

Harry potter relates.

[@andreas3084]

Granted I was at a naughty boys school and it was the 80s but I told a teacher where to go then two of the teachers got me a headlock put my head against an old skool radiator and the teacher I told where to go booted me in the head fractured my skull in two places I was then taken to hospital after the teacher told them I fell down the stairs

[@andrereloaded1425]

I remember being sent to the headmasters office as a teenager, "Bam! Whack! Smash! Don't EVER pull me out of football training again!", I said. She sure learned her lesson.

[@user-wj4yk8ly1d]

I remember the head PRAISED me in june 1996 for my Mark From phylozophy ( 12 out of 20 ) 😊😊😊👏👏👏🇨🇵

[@user-js3rg9sj1k]

They made my life hell.

[@user-wj4yk8ly1d]

Learn . Learnt . Learnt .

[@user-wj4yk8ly1d]

Read . Read . Read .

[@user-wj4yk8ly1d]

Think . Thought . Thought .

[@user-wj4yk8ly1d]

Write . Wrote . Written

[@user-wj4yk8ly1d]

Speake . Spoke . Spoken .

[@user-js3rg9sj1k]

NO IT WAS RIFE IN THE STATE SCHOOL S. 60 S 70 S.

[@user-js3rg9sj1k]

Ya our teacher,a used kick us about in 1970,s.

[@user-js3rg9sj1k]

So that a what IS wronge with me.😢😢😢😢😢

[@anastasiatempest761]

Terrible!💗🌻🙏👨🏽‍🦽

[@Bungle-UK]

He shouldn’t have been naughty then 🤷‍♂️

[@Mike_5]

Fire Safety is an important subject to be taught in Schools

[@mariannehavisham8323]

Relevant how?

[@Mike_5]

@@mariannehavisham8323 Extinguishing

[@mariannehavisham8323]

@@Mike_5 ????????

[@bassekaman8315]

And all those evil teachers retired on the triple lock and voted brexit😂😂😂 they still run this country

[@doochacka]

Isn't it illegal to play around with fire extinguishers?

[@pageantgrosvenor]

It is ptsd

[@Paws4Thought669]

Parent Teacher, Stress Disorder ;)

[@mariannehavisham8323]

Not everyone who is abused suffers with ptsd

[@dondraper2488]

What a whiner ! I feel sorry for those students that were bummed by a teacher….

[@mariannehavisham8323]

Female sexual predators exist too and let's call it what it is, rape Physical violence is also abuse and talking about it isn't 'whingeing'

[@user-wj4yk8ly1d]

Willy Wimmer

[@user-wj4yk8ly1d]

🙂 Žika s the finest 🙂🇷🇸

[@mrmac9370]

😂😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂😂😂😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣🤣 Oh God those pivotal years ! 😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂😂🤣😂🤣😂😂 the trauma ! 😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂😂

[@user-wj4yk8ly1d]

"Happy Days" with Cunningham , Fondzie etc 🙂👏👏👏🇺🇲 sequel TV 1974