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Originally Posted by Flyboy
And that caused her to resign. Not made of very stern stuff, was she?
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Yes, what a softie - being upset and worried about threats of violence and death to her personally, and threats to set the school on fire, and animal excrement being posted to the school.
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Originally Posted by Flyboy
From the BBC link earlier in the thread.
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Thank your for that - so, do you think the democratically elected representatives in this school, no matter what their age, should be disenfranchised - or only on matters where their views disagree with yours? (I wonder what your viewpoint/comments would have been if the vote had been 13 to 1 the other way - "
a victory for democracy" perhaps?
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My dietary habits are irrelevant, however my conscience is with the morals that protect children from losing a loved one, how about yours?
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imho, your dietary habits are extremely relevant, as they shape your world-view, and your comments upon others. And I do not regard a animal bred for food as a "loved one" (mmmm, 8/10 for emotive terminology). My children know where their food comes from, and have been educated in the food supply chain life-cycle.
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I was unaware of the number of parents who complained, but there have not been articles which I have seen that say how many, could you let me see them?
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If you look in the
Independent article (and other local websites), you will see comments from local parents (Tedgar74) stating this.
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My children go to Lydd school and right from the start of the farm the children and parents were informed that Marcus would in fact be slaughtered, it was then decided to be put for a vote.
The sheep has been reared by all the school not in fact by just a few children, who simply could not of bonded that closely with him!
Also we have been off school for the summer break for 7 weeks without any contact from the pupils, and the headmistress has been caring for the animals herself.
I think this story has been told from a very one sided point of view, especially as only 8 parents have in fact complained.
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I agree, it is one of the worst feature of the internet and there many whom we both know who fit this profile, but surely that is a matter for the hosts and for the police. Why has there not been an investigation? As I do not subscribe to these sites, I must rely on your better knowledge that these threats exist. I cannot condone the behaviour of those who behave in this way and it saddens me, if the reports are true, that they had to resort to such methods.
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Thank you for your caveated comment - I do not subscribe to these sites either, but it only took me ten minutes to find this out; I suppose it depends if one is interested in finding out......