The dangers of being a school teacher

@SunshineGirl It would help protect the children too.

@Sharon If a teacher poses a credible danger to children they should not be in the classroom, or the school, in the first place.

@SunshineGirl Cameras will help determine whether a teacher poses a danger.

@Sharon Why stop there? Let's have a surveillance camera in every private home.

@SunshineGirl Children tend to be removed from their families if there's any suspicion they're being abused.

@SunshineGirl How would you feel if you were repeatedly abused by a teacher and nobody believed you?

@rob19 That would indeed be a dreadful circumstance. However, contrary to popular belief, the vast majority of child abuse occurs in or close to the home, not in a school. I say this as the wife of a paediatric nurse of 17 years standing who daily has to deal with the consequences.

@SunshineGirl Where the majority of abuse occurs is irrelevant to those boys and girls being abused by pervert teachers of either sex. At least girls stand a chance of being believed when then report the abuse but no one cares what happens to boys.

@rob19 And you have evidence of this, do you?

@SunshineGirl Yes, I was one of their victims but I wasn't believed, probably because I was a boy.

@rob19 I am sorry for your trauma and pain. But please do not project a deviant experience to the whole of the teaching profession. A lot of kids at my daughter's school would be much safer being cared for fulltime at school than in their chaotic homes.

@SunshineGirl I'm not projecting my experience on all teachers but children need to be protected from abusive teachers - even if they are only boys.

@SunshineGirl yes so lets homeschool all kids and eliminate the liberal teacher from the equation.

@rob19 I don't know when you went to school, but safeguarding and listening to children is a whole lot better than when I was at school in the 1990s.

@MasterLee Or let's just keep politics out of childhood education.

@SunshineGirl It might be better but there's still a lot of room for improvement. The headteacher of a nearby school left a few months ago following an allegation of impropriety. A teacher at another school in a nearby town is now under suspicion. Cameras could provide valuable evidence to help confirm or deny the allegations.

@SunshineGirl I agree. That was my point exactly.