IF your newspaper was to report the clear facts on Wednesday, May 12 the headline "Bully Teacher Claim," might not have seemed too offensive to people of that profession.

The only evidence to back up this sensationalism was a mother's claims following being taken to court regarding her failure of duty as a parent to ensure her son attends school.

Perhaps, if you kept to what was reported in the article, you might have run the headline "Parents fined for lack of responsibility."

Both the claims of bullying and of suicide were unsubstantiated.

Keep to the facts and you might find that the practice of hounding out honest, hard working individuals from their jobs might cease and parents might take responsibility for their short-comings.

D LIDDELL, North Bank, Pleckgate, Blackburn.