[WillowTheWhisp]

I wonder what the reaction would be, of those objecting to the teacher's actions, if the children were disappearing out of school after registration and disappearing off into the town for the rest of the day. Would the teacher then have any right to go looking for them? What if a child who should have been in school had an accident whilst absconding and was seriously injured or killed? Would there be complaints against the school for not having chased up where they had disappeared to?

I spent today teaching a group of year 8 children about Native American culture and I am glad I don't do it on a full time basis. Some of the children who should have been there were not there and the teacher sent TAs off to look for them - how far should they have looked? Should they even have looked at all? Should teachers even bother taking a register? Should school attendance be optional?

If we became so lax in attitude those children would get an awful shock when entering the workplace.