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[quote=blazey;604113]

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?

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Surely this just re-inforces the need for children to be where they are meant to be??????

And with the greatest if respect, who do you think would be the first people that the shop keeper would ring if these children had been misbahving. The school of course. Therefore, the owner should back the school 100%