Tuesday, November 10, 2009



No freedom to criticize teachers in Britain?

We read:
"A teaching union has spoken out against social networking sites after hundreds of pupils joined a Facebook page criticising their headteacher. More than 300 children signed up to the group calling for principal Nardeep Sharma to be sacked.

Many also posted offensive comments about him and other teachers at Colne Community School and College in Brightlingsea, Essex.

The page, which featured a photograph of Mr Sharma and was filled with spelling mistakes and poor punctuation, said: 'If you have an issue with Nardeep Sharma then voice it here! 'We have a right to free speach! and lets just watch them try and hold us back! 'If every pupil joins this group then what are they going to do expell the whole school?'

The messages were removed and the page shut down after it was brought to Facebook's attention.

Source

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

Does Britain have a free-speech right? If they do, this seems like a clear violation. It's also very possible this could have been started by one disgruntled student simply trying to get even.

No Kang-ho said...

Sorry, but we do not have free speech and neither do we have a democracy. Both a myths and what is amusing here is that those who have helped perpetuate the myth, teachers, are now the victims.

We do not have free speech - terrorists, paedophiles, anti-Semites, and racists are all denied free speech and no one seems bothers.

Democracy, of course we're not. We live in an oligarchy or maybe a restricted democracy but I have no power at all, We basically have 2 viable parties who share one platform - namely capitalism. We have a system where the majority of people either wanted anything but those voted in or weren't bothered and those who are voted in are in reality the minority. Some democracy. We have the technology to have a much more direct democratic system but those in power won't divulge it. (sorry for spelling mistakes I'm in a rush)

Anonymous said...

Didn't students in the U.S. get in trouble for that rate my teahcer website as well?

Anonymous said...

"We do not have free speech - terrorists, paedophiles, anti-Semites, and racists are all denied free speech and no one seems bothers."

This is as it should be. Those who are anti-society should have no rights.