[WillowTheWhisp]

She used a pen name. She didn't promote her books in school. She didn't promote her website to her pupils. I really can't see where she is at fault. She has presumably fulfilled her duties as a teacher.

Lesley Ham, a Lancashire negotiating secretary for teaching union the NASUWT said: "I welcome this investigation as it is no doubt causing worry to parents and their children.

"In writing lurid material as a teacher you would struggle to maintain professionalism and standing amongst the impressionable young people you are charged with teaching."

I find it hard to believe that a Lancashire negotiating secretary for teaching union cannot understand how a teacher can keep her job and her private life totally seperate. Personally I'd be more worried about her if she couldn't. That's when problems begin to arise when teachers involve their pupils in their private lives.

As we only have the one image of Paigan Stone to go off it's impossible to know if she was or was not 'posing like a tart' on her website but that photo looks like the sort of thing you'd get on the back of the dust jacket of the book - hardly erotic.

As for Shakepeare - hasn't there been a bit of a hoohah about Othello being studied in schools lately due to its steamy eroticism and blatantly racist content? Yet that has been standard reading for 11 - 15 year olds for donkey's years.

Unmarried mother's shouldn't teach? How does their marital status affect their teaching ability? In fact they might be a darned good role model in preference to the proliferation of chav baby producers who sit back and scrounge off the state - a real live example who can show girls that motherhood isn't a doddle and a meal ticket but a genuine commitment to a small human for many years (in fact motherhood is for life as many AccyWeb mothers can tell you)

Why should it be inappropriate for a Christian school to hire someone who writes gothic novels? They employ atheists. They employ muslims. Not all teachers at Christian schools are Christians (neither are the pupils) For all we know Samantha Goldstone may well be a Christian. It's not as if she's taking her class off for midnight orgies in graveyards is it?