Dear Mum - and anybody else who might be reading this....

Girl on a school trip has a "midnight feast" with some friends in her hotel room. The teachers searched her room and found some chocolate bars.  They then contacted her mother and - according to the mother - told her to come and collect her daughter for breaking the rules.  Now there is some dispute about what the mother was told, but what does not seem to be in dispute, and what I find utterly reprehensible, is that the midnight feast came to the teachers' attention because the girl mentioned it in a letter she wrote home to her mother.  So the teachers intercepted and read her private correspondence??  How dare they!!  Surely that's a criminal offence?  Unbelievable.