School principal warns parents: Get your kids off Facebook it’s a verbal sewer [Independent.ie]
- Published: 22 September 2011
AN AUSTRALIAN school principal fed up with cyber-bullying has gone to war on Facebook.
Chris Duncan, principal of Lindisfarne Anglican Grammar School, in Tweed Heads, New SouthWales used his school newsletter to warn parents in bold print: “GET YOUR KIDS OFF FACEBOOK. THIS VERBAL SEWER IS HARMING YOUR CHILDREN.”
Mr Duncan said he decided to take the radical action after he helped a 16-year-old student who suffered serious abuse on Facebook.
He said he was aware of students who had been sent into an “appalling state” due to abuse they received on Facebook, with some children being more vulnerable than others.
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