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..... The strengths that I’ve experienced as
a woman teacher have been in the nature of
the relationship that gets built so there is
no taboo on physical contact from me to them

- but there’s no taboo at all about the actual

contact - where you actually give
a cuddle or somebody actually hangs
hand in a sort of non-sexual way and
a maternal rather than paternalistic.

somebody

onto your
say it’s

SSl I took my reader (who spends some time in
the Sanctuary) out this morning along busy
roads it would have been - it was instinctive
with me to hold his hand but because I’m a
student teacher - I don't know whether it’s
because of that or because he doesn’t like
me to get too involved - and now I think it
would have been right and really nice to follow
through - I had to let go -

D Head Yes, it doesn’t always work.

SSl No, it would have worked - but I really thought

I shouldn’t do it .....

mii SSl It was a dangerous road and in any other situ-
ation I'd have grabbed hold of his arm or
held his hand or something.

SS2 Because that kind of thing about having
physical contact with that kind of kid and
all the assumptions that go with it just aren't
part of training to be a teacher -

D Head Well, it's also not part of a lot of schools.

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it's a continuing one I
it is the right one.

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