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Originally Posted by Flyboy
Didn't know that had happened and it is a dispicable thing to do, but again, I didn't read the right web pages. Or is this just a bit hyperbole?
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Mmmmmm, hyperbole - rich coming from someone who called a school farm animal "a loved one"!
So, if you find something, that's evidence - if someone else finds something to the contrary, that's hyperbole?
Anyway, if you will deign to accept something from the
Daily Heil as evidence, this was printed in September last year when it originally all kicked off
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the situation took a sinister turn as Kent Constabulary began an investigation into 'possible threats of criminal damage' against the school.
A spokesman would not go into details but confirmed a probe was under way linked to the campaign to save Marcus.
There was no suggestion yesterday that any of the mothers behind the demonstrations had anything to do with the threats.
It is believed the threats stem from Facebook postings in which supporters on a save Marcus group made remarks including suggestions that the school be burnt down.
One by Teresa Marie Compton, read: 'Burn the school down. That'll learn them.'
Katie Doolittle wrote: 'Let poor Marcus live and send the headmistress to the abattoir.'
Lisa Price posted: 'I am livid, the b******s killed him. What goes around comes around.'
And Amy Shead said of the headmistress 'She will get her comeuppance.'
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Originally Posted by Flyboy
Do you really expect a bunch of seven, eight, nine, ten and eleven year olds really understood what they were voting for? Surely no one is so naive to imagine, a strong minded head teacher could influence a vote by these little children (yes, they are just little children)? Which way do you think a vote to slaughter the class hamster would have gone? Were they asked to vote on whether the animal should be sold, or sold then slaughtered? It would be very interesting to know how the ballot papers were worded, if indeed there was an actual ballot, or was it just a show of hands?
[Obvioulsy I don't expect you to able to answer, but these are all questions that need to be asked]
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Re the school council - should it be abolished, as they, in your opinion, can be convinced to vote whichever way the school wants? And since the school hamster wasn't orginally bought to be raised and slaughtered as part of teaching the children about the food life-cycle, it would appear your old friend Mr Hyperbole is visiting again....
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Originally Posted by Flyboy
Still, only one parent seemed to have felt strongly enough to post a message and they seemed to feel it necessary to post the same message twice and apparently the only source to the number of parents who complained. In the local press, it appears only two parents felt passionate enough to comment (one being the same from the Independent, I dare say), if they really are parents of children at the school. These sorts of things are hardly certain, are they?
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Strange how the only evidence you find credible is that which supports your viewpoint.
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Originally Posted by Flyboy
You are very welcome. Was this just hearsay, or do you believe it to be accurately reported? When I did a Google search-"teacher threats sheep excrement", the only source to reports of excrement being posted, was from that paragon of truth, balance and reliability: The Daily Heil. |
Perhaps if your search had been a bit simpler (why put "sheep" in it?), and put in "charman threats" (name of person & threat) you would have seen, in the first couple of links (I left out the Mail and the Mirror) -
Times
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The campaign took an ugly twist when personal threats to Mrs Charman were posted online and another Facebook page called for her to be banned from teaching altogether. Others wrote on the internet that they wanted the school burned down.
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Guardian
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The campaign mushroomed: by the end of September Andrea Charman was receiving personal threats against her and according to the Times some people had called for the school to be burned down
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On a related note, if anyone reading or taking part in this thread has been traumatised by the treatment of Marcus, they can leave a message
here, a memorial to Marcus.