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Here is a selection of your letters and emails:Daniel in the lion's denI became a supply teacher in the early 1990s after ceasing to be head of modern languages at an independent boys' school. The change of scene was terrifying! A boy kicked my car as I left school, and a group of boys stood in a circle round a girl in an English lesson pretending to have a "blow job". You try explaining to an eight-year-old why everyone has FCUK on their T-shirts."Additional reporting by Andrew JohnsonYOUR LETTERS'IoS' readers are still responding to our special reports on the violence and indiscipline faced by schools. "You can't control what he hears from other children."Alex is now aged 8 and, one year on, she laughs about his attempted seduction But, at the time, she says, it was horrifying "I didn't want my son to be talking like that. Children are being exposed to stuff I never dreamed possible. I wonder about how Alex will think about girls and women as he gets older, when they have a T-shirt on which says 'Babe' in big letters, at the age of eight."It's a no-win situation for schools. How can they stop the children talking about what they see every day? Computer games, DVDs, pop music, fashion, children's magazines, advertising and television programmes are all so obviously influenced by sex They are being bombarded with images.
Children as young as seven are indulging in the sort of sexual behaviour once associated with 16-year-olds, according to parents and teachers. With ministers admitting they are unable to control the spread of underage sex in Britain and teenage conceptions at a record high, even primary schools are complaining of playground sex games and persistently obscene language.Until now, the debate has concentrated on the behaviour of British teenagers, the most promiscuous in Western Europe. But since he has been at school we have had to talk to Alex about lots of subjects we didn't think we would be broaching at this young age," said Mrs Love, an office manager. As Katie Love has discovered, though, he has an enormous job on his hands."As parents, we have always answered any questions about sex. She also wants better training for teachers in classroom control techniques.The Government has established a new task force on school discipline, part of Tony Blair's drive to reintroduce a "culture of respect" into the classroom. Sexually transmitted diseases are at record levels among the young.Jacqui Smith, the new schools standards minister, has praised the IoS for its Inside Britain's Schools Campaign, highlighting social and disciplinary problems in the classroom.
In an exclusive interview she revealed that, in future, the parents of violent or disruptive pupils will be ordered to sign formal guarantees of good behaviour, and that failure to keep to the agreement will see the student expelled. But an investigation by The Independent on Sunday shows how the obsession with sex now affects even the youngest pupils. The problem is thrown into sharp relief by one mother's revelation of how a children's tea party ended in disgrace when her seven-year-old son asked a family guest for sex."I could have died of shame," said Katie Love from Hednesford in Staffordshire. "Alex came home last year and propositioned a girl we had round for tea. I was shocked, I couldn't understand where on earth he would be learning to talk like that - it's definitely not at home."Alex then tried to explain to this poor girl how 'sex' was done - all in very childish terms - stuff he had obviously picked up at school."Last week it was reported that three sisters in Derby had become pregnant at the ages of 12, 14 and 16. A source close to Morgan said: "We have not paid a huge amount What matters is what we can put back into it.
