Guardian link

Don't know whether to laugh or despair.

Presumably anyone with a Celtic surname is also now nervous of spelling mistakes...

I've certainly typed in a wrong, but similar-sounding word before. And what gets me is the teacher apparently didn't have the wit to realise what's happened or to take the boy aside first of all. Either that or they just thought 'I'm not getting done for this!'.

Well, if you can get done for failing to report terrorist activity...
Nothing exposes the stupidity of rubbish legislation like rigidly complying with it regardless of how idiotic it is.

exactly - if I am personally liable (Prison / fine etc) and the legislation is badly written or so punitive that it does not allow for common sense then I would probably report everything

Indeed if the teachers had any sense they would report everything and swamp the system until they changed the law

There’s enough paperwork in schools already - the people who would be swamped would be the teachers and nominated member of staff whose responsibility is child safety - and I expect that in most cases, that would be the head (certainly in primary schools it’s likely to be).

Lancashire police say 'terrorist house' incident not about spelling mistake | Home News | News | The Independent
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/ho ... 24481.html

That is about nothing more than managing the media. The boy apparently didn't disclose anything truthful (key word there) that would cause such a fuss, but just look at that homework sheet - it talks about a character then seems to want to slyly interrogate the child with questions that basically set out their ID!

The establishment's local branch are looking leverage because they too treated it like the information gathering exercise it apparently is.