No H. Prynne. State school teachers only are employed by the education department. Church school and independant teachers are employed by the particular school. Its good to know that in state schools one cannot teach a subject which he is not qualified in.

@ H.P. Baxxter .. Couldn’t have said it better.

Certificates mean nothing when ethics and values are thrown out of the window.

The worst is that it starts at university. Whereas until the recent past the first compulsory module for all students was ethics in your subject of study, today this has vanished entirely from most courses.

So if our students have no background in ethics and codes of conduct they aren’t even taught its importance at university either.

Furthermore many in the workplace are dismissing codes of conduct so you can imagine what a mess we are all in.

The Spanish Inquisition?

Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition!

I never went to school in Malta but my secondary education was at Cheltenham Technical High School. We also were at school from 0915 until 1630.

All the teachers had to be called Sir or Miss and we sat at desks not tables.

We were not permitted to walk around and had to raise a hand to attract the teacher’s attention before we could speak.

The standard of education even at junior level was very high and there were very few pupils who could not read or write.

Calling a teacher by his or her first name was not permitted and we had a high level of discipline both communal and self.

She was 15 for crying out loud. Whether she ‘consented’ or not is completely irrelevant, given she was legally a minor. And from the family’s statements it is clear that her guardians never consented to her jumping off a cliff with her ‘teacher’.

She told her that whilst she had no right to oblige her to change it, she felt like such a photo shouldn’t be online given that above all she is an educator.

My point is that there are MANY people who care and look into their teacher’s Facebook accounts. We are STRICTLY PROHIBITED to add students as friends and we know that if we add our colleagues that carries a responsibility.

If the school didn’t know about Mr. Tanti’s past, preferences or whatever then it wasn’t doing its job properly.

“It’s just so cool to be bad on this island, full stop.”

Let’s hope that this is an eye-opener to Joseph Muscat, that when you play with a value system to cheat it over and over and by simple open and proud example coerce others to follow, there are disastrous results down the line.

Everything is linked.

Sobriety is called for.

That’s funny, because all this is in the end is your speculation.

[Daphne – It’s not. It emerges from what the police have said about prosecution.]

Honestly I don’t know how you can just condemn someone who you don’t know as unhinged. I can pass no judgement but you don’t know the situation, whether she consented to be there and what actually happened.

I also see that you left out the second part of my comment, don’t you agree that you should stop exploiting this kid?

[Daphne – Any teacher who drives a pupil to Dingli Cliffs and jumps off with her is definitely unhinged. There is no room for speculation here.]