Yes I respect students , but I expect that respect to be mutual.
Like Newton’s postulates, its pretty a much immutable rule, you could call it the first law of teaching :-
To every action there must be a proportionate and opposite reaction.
Remember Simon and Garfunkel? ‘It’s all happening at the Zoo. I do believe it : I do believe its true!…..and you can take the cross town bus if its raining or its cold : and the animals will love it if you do……at the zoo.’
Of course schools are not zoos – perish the thought : but for the unprepared , the weak, the unwary and the unfit they can be dangerous places.Safeguarding isn’t a one way street.