Teach Your Children Well

The "Google alert" I have set up for the words "forgery" and "impostor" give me hundreds of news articles every week, and I don't even begin to read all of them. Most involve forged checks and forged legal documents on a minor scale, and the perpetrators are usually sentenced to two or so years of prison, depending on the charge. The stories I find more interesting are those that don't involve literally making money, but have more subtle ends. In "Qatar's top-selling English language daily newspaper" I found this story about a teacher/father's forgery of his children's documents to be accepted into a PRIMARY school in England. Perhaps my public school education makes me especially disdainful of this kind of action, but the fact that the story made it to a newspaper in Qatar points to the fact that others must be interested as well. One hears of all kinds of fraud happening at the high school and college level in terms of document falsification and illegal test-taking, but rarely does it happen at the primary school level (as far as I know). I pity this man's children, forced to leave their school because of their father's fraud, unsure whose actions to emulate. I am rarely a "think of the children" kind of person, but I wonder how these kids will learn the value of honesty and hard work, if they can't learn it from their father who is also a teacher.