They should have direct access to health records, police records etc from the respective departments and not to be provided by the individual.

Being a well qualified teacher is irrelevant in terms of abuse. One can have excellent qualifications and a warrant and still abuse pupils.

“As a parent, losing a 15 year old princess would bring an end to my life. Being also a parent of a 23 year old boy, I pray and hope that Erin will recover strongly.”

Parole Sante!!!!

Well said Kevin.

[Daphne – I think you miss the point that Erin Tanti had nothing to recover from. He was discharged from hospital after three or four days, and he walked into court yesterday as normal. He only had the slightest fracture. He did not jump or fall off a 40m cliff, or he would be dead. And at least have the decency to point out that you are one of Tanti’s close friends and a fellow performer in his comedy acts.]

At last someone with sense. Both boys and girls hormones are all over the place at that age. As a teacher myself there is no way I would take a child, that is what she was, to any place, far less a deserted place at night, OR, for pupils to be taken anywhere by a teacher without written permission from the parent.

I think this has to be carefully thought about by THE SCHOOL to ensure the safety of both teachers and pupils.

Part of your teacher training ensures that you have to be above reproach at ALL times, day and night where teacher/pupil relationships are concerned .

This has to be a good learning curve for ALL concerned. It is not up to us to debate who should be held to account, the police will do their duty and find out the exact details and if charges have to be pressed.

What we need to do is to ensure it DOES NOT happen again. Laws are set and if someone has broken them they will suffer the consequences. What we need to do is to pray for the loss of a young life.

If I ever had the misfortune of having a daughter who reasoned like you do, I’d send you to the toughest form of army training who will put you up on Dingli Cliffs at 3 o’clock in the morning, throw a dummy doll down the furthest rock and make you go down the slippery rocks and slopes to rescue the doll and get back to your departure point that is back up the cliff by 4.30 am, dummy doll and all, unscratched and unhurt.

I’m not as cruel as your friend – I’d make sure you’re securely well-fastened according to health and safety standards before going down.

That will teach you to think before arguing that it’s perfectly all right to be at Dingli cliffs at 4 am.

They’re desperate attention seekers who lack attention or have a lot of it, so much that they just don’t know how to handle right and wrong and use someone’s death to notice them and worse, to defend a lousy teacher.

Ejja ma nhawwdux he.

Using quotes to justify that people may be judging him is exactly the same as brushing dirt under the carpet to avoid revealing you got a dirty house.

Daphne, I really used to like you and your comments but you really should stick to commenting on politicians and other public figures who expect it anyway coz they’re in the public eye. You have gone really low on commenting on something so personal and basicaly none of your business when you have no idea what happened. Lisa was in my daughter’s class and the teacher was my kids’ teacher too, and really you don’t know any of the two victims to judge. Pls leave this judging to the professionals, you are helping noone least of all her poor dad and family

[Daphne – This is no longer a private matter but a public interest issue, Parent. Might I suggest that, if this man was your child’s teacher, you attend to the more pressing matters at home. But perhaps good parenting is too much to ask of you, because if you are sticking up for this criminally irresponsible teacher I really cannot expect you to be able to work out whether he has got to your son or daughter too.

As a side comment, any grown woman with 15-year-old children who writes ‘coz’ – something we used to do aged 12 in 1977 – needs to examine her maturity issues.]

Herfriend keeps celebrating Lisa’s death, like it’s her business what Lisa was going through in life and according to Herfriend’s repetitive rants, the only hinting solution to problems is death.

And by the way Erin is a HERO.

Many children, Lisa’s age, went through worse but they were lucky enough to get a safe landing and not meet someone like your friend Erin, and you Herfriend.

I’m a pupil at that school and I assure you, these ‘sleepovers’ are organised by the assistant heads of the school and PSD teachers, who are both present throughout the entire weekend along with another two teachers on shift.

The other one of the two teachers is not necessarily the drama teacher and hardly ever, if ever, is.

The children are not allowed to take smart phones along with them for the simple reason that the ‘sleepovers’ are activities this school, amongst many others, organises for them to build bonds with one another, and to strengthen friendships with their classmates without the use of technology (and it is a known fact that any social gathering among young people today consists mostly of texting those not present, or scrolling through Facebook).

Pupils must therefore socialise the traditional way and leave their weekend differently to the way they started it off as they get to know each other better, and it is the highlight of the school year, and the most awaited.

They are free to contact their parents through one of the available mobile phones the school owns purposely for these weekends, through one of the available teachers.