It will please the silent majority, who wouldn't want their little little darlings exposed to abhorrent religious and sexual ideas, well abhorrent ideas that are different to their own.

That's ridiculous.

You know how there's always one teacher that changes your life and the way you think?

Well our class would sometimes head down to the pub with him and have a few bevvies which i'm sure is pretty illegal (We were about 16/17 at the time).

Doesn't mean to say that he wasn't excellent at what he did.

No they probably are more intelligent than the majority of our population the issue being that we forget that we expect them to satisfy everyone at the same time with every policy decision, which with no one person having exactly the same opinions accros the board as anyone else makes such a persuit difficult if not impossible.

They are a dying ilk unfortunately we have a massive antiseptic culture in which as governments do is identify the bad and generalise that. very much like antibiotic cures.

We are relentlessly destroying what made us human and the soul of society.

We need more doctor coxes.

In the united kingdom of box ticking it is becoming obvious that the boxes don't cover the qualities that you can't describe in words as it is individuality.

All those centuries past, and teachers have been guided by mere common sense alone. If the teachers now need such legislation they shouldn't be in the job.

Thankfully the government will change before Labour are able to legislate the teaching profession to beyond the bounds of physical possibility.

I suspect that the cameroons (sorry Tories) will implement something equally stupid and unenforceable. There are Laws which we must all obey, this (surprise) includes Teachers. If Teachers behave legally why should what they do be further constrained?

This is all typical Daily Mail knee-jerk rubbish: invent a "problem", complain about it, demand "action". Bollox!!!

Part of it is to make teaching seem more of a “profession” in the way that doctors are. Get a register (like the GMC) with the powers to “strike off” the errant ones and regulate the rest. The problem with these guidelines is that they are so woolly-worded that it could be applied to any teacher’s behaviour.

I have not seen any medical codes of conduct, but I can imagine that they are far more strictly worded, and easier to interpret and apply to situations.