Over several years the New Zealand Teachers Council has developed a policy which will help to ensure that only people of good character and people who are fit to be teachers enter the teaching profession. There is an article about that called “Of Good Character and Fit to be a Teacher” in the Summer- issue 8 of the “For teachers” publication.

But in the same issue is also in article called “What Happens when things go Wrong?” What is the process, when complaints about teachers are reported?

The second article shows that things can still go wrong even with a well thought out policy.

If we really want, that things don’t go wrong all that often, we have to come back to God, our creator and the policy He has for us in His word, the Bible. In fact we have to come back to God as a nation. God’s policy starts actually with the New Birth as we are reading in John chapter three. Read the whole chapter, especially John 3:3. Also Second Corinthians 5:17.

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