Or put another way: 80% of teachers don't.
One in five could be one person in a focus group but in this case it's from a TES poll of 6,162 UK teachers.
What they don't give us is the exact wording of the question. The wording of the question is critical for the kinds of results you want. If you want a headline you massage the question so that you're more likely to get a "yes" response.
Or you offer multiple choice answers like "strongly agree", "mildly agree", "agree", "neither agree nor disagree" and so on.
You could bunch the first three columns in as being affirmative answers and count towards your "one in five" answer.
What's worrying alongside this report is a quote from a supply teacher. Not a head teacher, deputy head, department head, newly qualified teacher or a teacher but a supply teacher. Hold that in your brain, the following quote comes from someone who could be employed by a supply teaching firm that doesn't require a formal teaching qualification. And we don't know how long this person has been working as a supply teacher or where.
(From the BBC website)
"Supply teacher Judith Cookson told the TES: "There are too many anger management people and their ilk who give children the idea that it is their right to flounce out of lessons for time out because they have problems with their temper. They should be caned instead."
*sigh*
It is this bloggers opinion that Judith Cookson needs to be thinking about a career move.
