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FROM the tone of CT Riley's letters I assume he had a bad experience at school which has coloured his view of all teachers.

I admit that not all teachers are perfect, but most I have known never ignored bullying and certainly would not countenance racial abuse.

All schools must now have policies in place to counteract any bullying.

As for our influence upon pupils' values, I always tried to instil what I thought were good values, but have been told on several occasions that I knew nothing of the pupils' world. I lived in my middle-class area, safe from the pressures that caused them to be as they were.

On one occasion I was told by a pupil that his father said he was to take no notice of stuck-up middleclass b******s like me. The pupil was a bully and ended up in prison, but this was due to the fact that his parents refused to believe he could do any wrong until it was too late.

So, unless Mr Riley can produce hard factual evidence to prove me wrong, I will still maintain that parents are responsible for their children's attitudes.

Tom Cooper, Durham.

9:41am Thursday 15th May 2008

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