naboo

From what I can gather, you had a student choking the chicken, bashing the bishop, whatever, over some website in your classroom and all you wanted to do was give him a lecture and make a joke of it? Correct me if I'm wrong on this, but if that was the case, the punishment needed to be a lot more harsh than you intended and good on the other teacher!

As for imposing ethics, religion etc in a classroom, I'm fundamentally against it. We have a student teacher at my place at the moment, I'm a science teacher, she's Muslim. During an evolution lesson we were team teaching she butted in with a load of crap about Allah and the 'truth'. Inside I went nuts, but managed to put on a professional face and completely destroyed her argument in front of the kids. There's also an Islamic Studies room that is full of bullshit about Allah being this and that, an R.E. room where that big Christian fish is shown eating a picture of Charles Darwin and a few teachers who punish students for not believing in God - not directly of course, but in a round about way. I hate it, but unfortunately there's no law to keep nutters, sorry, religious folk out of the classroom influencing kids.