Why don’t I feel any sympathy for Austin Lanham being taped to a chair by his teacher? Perhaps it’s unfair for me to say that. I have never met Austin Lanham and don’t know what sort of kid he is, but I do know that there are so many disruptive kids in school these days, it must be so difficult for teachers to control them.

As far as I’m concerned, school is for learning and teachers should only have to teach. They shouldn’t need to disipline the kids because that’s the parents job. I was always very well behaved at school and got anoyed when the teachers had to stop what they were doing in order to tell certain kids off.

It might not be so bad when kids are only 9 like Austin Lanham but when they get older in many cases they are much bigger and stronger than the teachers. Things can easily get out of hand and knifes and even guns are making appearances at school.

In order to prevent violence in school from happening, I think that children need to understand that teachers are in a posistion of authority and if they tell them to do something then it means that they need to do it. Whether it be to sit down or to shut up and get on with work. Perhaps taping Austin Lanham to chair was a little extreme but I’m sure the teacher was feeling at the end of their tether.

Colleen McGraham has just been given an un-paid supension from her job as a teacher because she wrote blog posts about how she was in love with one of her school students who was only 15 at the time.