This article by Peter Wilby in the New Statesman about the stabbing of a teacher in Leeds is disgraceful: http://www.newstatesman.com/education/2014/04/why-does-it-take-murder-right-wingers-start-treating-state-school-teachers-respect
Can I remind you Mr Wilby that a tragic death has occurred and as a consequence a child has been arrested for murder.
A child Mr Wilby, not a convenient tool to be used in knockabout politics.
And none of us know what happened beyond the simple facts.
A responsible person would wait for the enquiry.
It is possible Mr Wilby that even you might be wrong.
I am fully prepared to accept that the teacher was "dedicated, devout, patient, caring and inspiring" but neither you nor I really know whether that is true. Those things were all said about Jimmy Savile - yet if one of his victims had stabbed him who would have blamed the assailant? Or again yesterday on Channel 4 News an "expert" was telling us in sensationalist gasps that mental illness might be a factor - in which case the child cannot be blamed.
None of us know.
We must wait for the enquiry.
To use this tragedy to advance your ideological views about state education is so base it astonishes me.
Can I remind you Mr Wilby that a tragic death has occurred and as a consequence a child has been arrested for murder.
A child Mr Wilby, not a convenient tool to be used in knockabout politics.
And none of us know what happened beyond the simple facts.
A responsible person would wait for the enquiry.
It is possible Mr Wilby that even you might be wrong.
I am fully prepared to accept that the teacher was "dedicated, devout, patient, caring and inspiring" but neither you nor I really know whether that is true. Those things were all said about Jimmy Savile - yet if one of his victims had stabbed him who would have blamed the assailant? Or again yesterday on Channel 4 News an "expert" was telling us in sensationalist gasps that mental illness might be a factor - in which case the child cannot be blamed.
None of us know.
We must wait for the enquiry.
To use this tragedy to advance your ideological views about state education is so base it astonishes me.
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