With Mr Parker's recent, well-deserved public excoriation for regularly messing around with boys over a sustained period, I tend to concur with those such as Newstalk ZB's intellectually-unchallenged and ever-articulate talkback host Leighton Smith, who, like so many others, including numerous callers, have put the finger precisely where it ought to point: i.e. at all those in Mr Parker's (especially school) community who conveniently turned a blind eye (and deaf ear) throughout the same extended period. Despite surely the multitude of internal alarm bells that must've been going off continually as to what might actually have been, and indeed was, going on.
Which could not but remind me of my own initial foray into teacher aiding some 10 years ago. For the fact that it took an entire 3 weeks for the standard police clearance to come through from the then Wanganui Computer and yet I was employed in the meantime irrespective surely shows the typical degree of lip service paid to the reality of child safety in - at least some - (primary) schools. I.e. to coin the phrase employed by John Tamihere, like so many modern social agencies our schools seem 'all hui and no do-ey'.
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