Backround checks are more important than education...

[steve at tightrope.demon.co.uk]

Adam Shostack <adam at homeport.org> writes:

> http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/education/2229196.stm
> 
> > Thousands of teachers will not be able to take classes at the start
> > of the new term because character checks on them will not have been
> > completed, the government has admitted.
> [...]
> > Leicestershire was one of the first areas of the country to be
> > affected by the vetting backlog as pupils returned to school last
> > Thursday, with schools being told to turn away teachers who had not
> > yet been checked.

This is in the context of a knee jerk reaction to an apparent murder
case of two young girls where one of the two accused worked in the
girl's school.

-- 
Steve Mynott <steve at tightrope.demon.co.uk>