[blazey]

A teacher at my old primary school once took a girl I know out of class in his car, bought her lollies from the shop and told her she had to suck them all day so she wouldn't speak.

Yes, it made her quiet, as pupils should be in class, but the method was inappropriate.

When a student isn't in school, even if they should be in school or not, a teacher should not have any right to approach a child and harass them. How is the general public meant to ascertain whether that adult hassling the child is indeed their teacher? It puts the shopkeeper in an awkward position.

Imagine if it had been someone like Ian Huntley entering the sandwich shop, and being a trustworthy figure to the child, the child left willingly with him to school, only to be driven away in a car to a remote place to be beaten, raped and murdered? How would that shop keeper feel if they KNEW they had just watched someone enter the shop, approach the child and not said a word?

Now I know this isn't a perfect story, I'm not a child abducter so I don't know the perfect way to snatch a child from under someones nose, but these things do happen. If we allowed teachers to interfere like this every day it would put children at risk. No matter what you say I am in agreeance with the pupils and the shopkeeper. They could've been an hour late for all I care but at least they didn't leave the shops premises with a teacher.