Ban on teacher's name

I refer to the report about the teacher who sent SMS messages with sexual connotations to students (April 23).

The name of the students concerned was banned to protect their identity and privacy; the name of the school was banned maybe to protect the students too, but more likely to protect the school, it being a private one, as opposed to a Church school; the name of the perpetrator was banned to protect nobody other than the 37-year-old teacher himself (who was a religion teacher, at that).

As a parent of two young children, I find it quite worrying that no thought has been given to protect all other children, who may well be future prey of this pervert.

Parents have a right to know that this man has no connection with their children, be it at school, at drama lessons, at football, at computer lessons or wherever. The fact that he was a religion teacher would make it even more likely for him to find a post at one of the several MUSEUM places where parents send their children so blindly, all in the name of religion.

Let us hope that this is an eye-opener and that the ban on the publication of the man's name will - if possible - be lifted, and that no such ban will be made in the future, unless absolutely necessary to protect the identity of the victims (which I very much doubt was the real reason in this case).