@Clueless, what is murder abuse?

Did you do a psychiatric evaluation of erin? Do you have such evaluations in your hand? I don’t. So I cannot deem erin to be either responsible or irreponsible for his actions.
If you have such information, please publish. Until then, it is premature to label him as ‘guilty’ and fully responsible for his actions.

[Daphne – Sorry, but I don’t believe you’re a teacher.]

Once again. .. wow. My only mistake was a grammatical one? My arguments were that good?

[Daphne – Your arguments are terrible. But saying ‘feeded’ is beyond belief.]

[Daphne – Yes, it does. The law says so, unless you are certified by more than one psychiatrist as suffering from psychotic episodes in which you lose touch with reality. If you mean that being an adult doesn’t necessarily mean you are a responsible person, then yes, I most definitely agree with you.]

I wish I had the time to reply to all of you. .. But alas… I am a teacher. .. and I have things to do.

However, I will state the facts, without any emotional prejudice.

A) What erin did is wrong-and lisa is unfortunately not with us anymore
B) it’s up to the courts, not us to judge and sentence him. Doing so through the info feeded to us through the media is definitely not enough (if that was the case, people can simply judge from the luxury of their home after watching the news and reading some articles)
C) insanity unfortunately makes us do things that are wrong. If this wasn’t the case, the law will not make exemptions and different sentences to such cases.
D) regarding the warrant. .. I’m a teacher. .. so I know. .. You are only screened for your qualifications not your emotional or psychological profile. Maybe schools should start doing this? (To which I agree it’s high time to be done for the sake of their pupils. I work along side several teachers who would do with a visit to a psychiatrist)
E) I’m not a psychologist. .. But i presume that neither is anybody who commented. This is why I’m not presumptuous to blame or unblame erin in his judgement on doing these actions.

[Daphne – I can’t believe you actually wrote ‘feeded’ rather than fed. What sort of teacher are you exactly?]

One hangs around with people of the same type, Should one start to investigate his colleagues we better be prepare for a pandoras box.

http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20140327/local/updated-council-says-drama-teacher-in-cliffs-incident-had-no-teaching-warrant.512450

I’d be interested to know how the pupils addressed their teacher, whether it was Mr.Tanti, as should have been the case, or ‘Erin’.

The informality of Erin suggests friendship and equality; the formality of Mr.Tanti would’ve been a constant reminder of the teacher/pupil boundaries. My money is on him being addressed as ‘Erin’ the ‘chum’, and insisting he’s addressed as such.

I hope all schools make this at least a basic requirement, that teachers are addressed in the proper formal manner, because the relationship with pupils is indeed a formal one. No chumminess, thank you very much.

If the words “I blame Lisa’s fellow pupils’ means anything other than they are being blamed, then please accept my apologies!

If anyone wants to blame the ones who knew something then please do just that and not generalize by blaming all the pupils.

Still, it is quite a burden for a 15 year old to bear. Hope no one of them feels too much guilt and does the unthinkable. Then who shall we blame?

If any of them have done any wrong by not reporting what they knew, then we should leave it up to the qualified people to explain that to them. There are ways and means of doing things.

Thanks

Ed