Jump to full article: This is London (Associated Newspapers) (uk), 2008-04-24
Intro: Parents who enrolled their children at a Rudolf Steiner school knew it would provide an alternative to traditional education.
But when a teacher lit a cigarette in a classroom and allowed some of the children to take a puff, it was a little too alternative for some. . . .
The incident unfolded at the 200-pupil Canterbury Steiner School in Kent as teacher Jim McIntee was attempting to illustrate the effects of smoking of smoking on the lungs during a physiology lesson.
To the astonishment of his 12-year-old pupils, he not only lit up, but then passed the cigarette around.
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