Susan Papas, the headmistress of Seldon School in Croyden, is the victim of a hate campaign because she has asked some parents to refrain from smoking outside her school.
While the problem itself is a trivial one its implications are not. Has it become socially acceptable in an anonymous online world to be both spiteful and hateful? Presumably in the real world anyone breaching the peace would be sanctioned accordingly, (and today's worst online offenders are too.) But this story seems to fall somewhere in between. It seems as though the parents are being poor role models at the school gate and holy terrors on the Internet.
But, I presume, there's not much to be done about it unless someone breaks the law. Presumably there's nothing illegal about expressing the view that you'd rather your child had a headmistress who was kinder to smokers.
Is this how modern life is supposed to be? Bad manners, spite and online harassment is now an acceptable and integral part of life?
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columngollum · 21/10/2013 11:32
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