In secondary schools, colleges and universities inappropriate relationships of a sexual nature are sometimes formed between students and teachers. There has been a recent debate about whether or not teachers who get inappropriately involved with students on or over the age of consent should actually face prosecution and be included on the sexual offences register. So it is generally accepted that abuse, or at the very least unethical behaviour, can and does happen within schools by certified teachers. I think it would be safe to assume that most of these relationships are of a heterosexual nature and involve a larger proportion of male teachers than female ones. Would it be fair, therefore, to require that every would-be male teacher be subjected to extra police or welfare checks "just in case" they may become involved with a student in an unethical way? Would it be fair to subject male teachers, nursery workers etc, to more checks than their female counterparts just because there exists a greater proportion of male peodophiles than female Ps in society? I think many would say that such a suggestion was unreasonable. So what basis is there then, to suggest that parents who have their children full time should be subjected to extra supervision than other parents, just because a tiny minority "may" use the excuse of HE to perpetrate their crimes?
Please or to access all these features
Please
or
to access all these features
Find advice from other parents on our Homeschool forum. You may also find our round up of the best online learning resources useful.
Home ed
Please create an account
To comment on this thread you need to create a Mumsnet account.