Forget the pitchforks and torches, angry parents are using keyboards and mouse clicks to take out their frustrations with teachers. The meeting place? Social networking sites like Facebook, U.K.’s Metro reports.
The National Association of Head Teachers said it receives hundreds of calls each week from teachers complaining of cyberbullying, and most of those complaints are in reference to angry parents. According to the NAHT, parents are taking things too far.
“Parents have a right to express their views and complaints should be heard — schools can only benefit from constructive feedback,” said Russel Hobby, NAHT general secretary. “Too often, though, social networking sites are a medium for the unreasonable and the unprincipled and have a momentum out of all proportion to reality.”
What Hobby’s referring to are seemingly harmless complaints that turn into gossip and rumors and snowball into campaigns and libelous comments.
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