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1. Senior and Key Teachers?
   Phew.
   Sounds like young-blood Junior teachers can go for it!
   

   Posted By: harry mithen

2. I had read somewhere the account of Luther nailing his theses to a Wittenberg church door was in the same category as 'Elementary my dear Watson' and 'Doctor Livingstone I presume' - phrases in common use but not true. Some believe Nelson's 'Kiss me, Hardy' was actually 'Kismet, Hardy.'

   Posted By: R.M.

3. Harry: Perhaps the reasoning is that the young and inexperienced among the teachers can't help themselves and that for senior and key teacher even the thought of an unchaste relationship ( whatever that might be) would require more effort and would therefore be more sinful.
   Judge, jury and executioner, perhaps?

   Posted By: JR,Sydney

4. Amazing! What century do these people come from?
   Do they also mean the divorced?
   The talent pool from which the morally sound Senior and Key Teachers are found is likely to be a talent puddle if this policy is carried through with.
   My point being shouldn't the General Secretary of the Bishops' Conference of England and Wales be more concerned about delivering a rigorous education for its students rather than this which is akin to the Salem trials?

   Posted By: Jeff Kevin

5. They want Catholic schools to be Catholic? Good Heavens! What next?

   Posted By: Peter

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