Mind you, more column centimetres were spent on plugging their Monopoly game than on their so-called exposé on criminal teachers so things aren't too bad.
I'm not sure if the little paper expects teachers to be paragons of virtue or not, or whether it was just a bit of a beat up. Christian Bennett, writing in the letters to the editor the next day made the interesting comment: "Imagine the outcry if a school demanded full disclosure of its parents' past deeds. It would soon become a very small school."
Yes, teachers do have an influence on kids lives but parental attitudes are a far bigger influence. As a principal once said, we're trying to instill behaviour patterns in some students in the few hours we see them that parents have no ability to teach them.
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