What Are Your Thoughts Regarding This?

[anotheoldgit]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2480903/Rachel-Speed-Lesbian-teacher-41-year-sordid-relationship-schoolgirl-kissing-stationery-cupboard-14.html

No I don't mean how big are stationary cupboards these days? :0)

But did the parents of this girl act appropriately, should this teacher still be teaching, and why after the girl was quite prepared to conduct a sexual relationship with her teacher, then chose to report her to the police only when she had started up another relationship?

[anotheoldgit]

sp1814

Sorry for my misunderstanding and I apologise to jno and ummmm I thought that by referring to gender, they were referring to her sexuality, rather that the male, female aspect.

Thank you also for pointing out my confusion.

[Mamyalynne]

I totally agree that she breached trust in a job where we hope our children will be safe from predators. Her parents attitude is perhaps even more concerning (based on the limited facts I have read).

[ummmm]

Sp is correct. No worries...

[anotheoldgit]

triggerhippy

/// And the last time you set foot in a secondary school was? ///

No need for one to visit a secondary school personally, such surveys speak for themselves.

/// A survey of union members found one in seven had been physically assaulted. ///

/// And eight in 10 said they had been verbally abused by a pupil in the past year, according to the self-selecting survey, which was carried out online and by post between February and March this year. ///

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-21990391

[anotheoldgit]

And to bring colour into the discussion.

http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2002/jan/06/uk.race

[Blackiequine]

Since you ask, AOG, no sympathy for any of them, all as bad as each other. Wonder how she was able to pass off the gift of a car, can see engagement ring could be hidden - but a car?

[jno]

quite correct, sp1814, that's what I meant. My response to her is the same as to Jeremy Forrest.

Like ummmm, I ended to take jno jnr's word for it when he said he was staying with friends. Perhaps that was unwise and I am just fortunate he was coming to no harm; but parents must do their best to trust their kids. In general he and his schoolfellows got on well with teachers, with neither side given to assaulting the others.

[anotheoldgit]

jno

/// Like ummmm, I ended to take jno jnr's word for it when he said he was staying with friends. Perhaps that was unwise and I am just fortunate he was coming to no harm; but parents must do their best to trust their kids. ///

Yes but surely no matter how much you trust them, when it comes to them staying out all night, perhaps the wise thing would be to ring his friends parents and see if everything is in order, it might also be wise to know a little about these parents also.

[jno]

in retrospect, maybe it would have been wiser; but we trusted him and he did not betray our trust.

If I'd found he was covertly having a relationship with a teacher I'd have disapproved, but my ire would have been aimed chiefly at the teacher. They're old enough to know better. School children are not; that's why they're at school.

[ummmm]

Sometimes I spoke to the parents and sometimes not. You do have to trust them but they need to be aware that spot checks could happen at any time.

[Sqad]

trigger

\\\\\Home Office statistics show me that the number of people aged over 65 in UK prisons has risen by 66 per cent since 1997. \\\\

One would expect that as life expectancy has risen for everyone.......including convicts.

[sp1814]

I think there's something we may have neglected when talking about kids staying over each others' houses...teenagers are bloody devious.

And they are extremely adept at pulling the wool over the eyes of adults.

[Mamyalynne]

Of course teenagers are devious ( seem to recall I was one once) made me extra careful with my 2 but even so sometimes they outwitted me.

But we do not need the added worry that they are not at a mates house (albeit an inappropriate one) but with a teacher or someone else in authority.

[sp1814]

triggerhippy

I'm slightly ashamed to say that I was a really good kid. In fact, I bordered on the nerdy in respect to studying, because I grew up in a time of high unemployment.

I can't recall a single occasion where I tried to pull the wool over my parents eyes.

Good grief.

How dull was I!!!

[ummmm]

sp - I was pretty dull as well.