In others, letters have been sent to parents saying that the current fashion for wearing school skirts as short, and as tight, as possible is a real problem in school, and dealing with the issue is a distraction from teaching.
It was, he says, a very fine upbringing if you were going to become a writer, because it saved you from distractions and taught close attention to the world.
The continual change in education policy is a distraction from teaching, says Edward Conway, head of St Michael's Catholic high school in Watford.
Every year, it welcomes some 190 talented scientists to come do theoretical research for a few years without the distraction of teaching obligations or mundane issues like housing.
He attributes the rise in scores to removing the distractions that prevent teachers from teaching.
Positive coping skills teaching can include healthy distraction (e.g. physical activity), problem-solving and techniques of healthy emotional regulation.
This renunciation, he explained, was a learning exercise, teaching him to will away the distractions of pain and pleasure and other attachments to the world.
Not only has this created new forms of in-class distraction and revolutionized campus communication, but it has begun to transform teaching itself.
That said, the Vergara case's intentional, "Bread and Circuses" distraction shouldn't deter us from pursuing sensible ways to improve teaching quality.
They'll actually sit and listen, have a drink with you and calm you down and they'll do techniques with you, like watch telly or talk, or read books and different distraction techniques and they teach you how to do that, which is a good thing.
