When teacher Sonya McNally posted a throwaway comment about her rowdy 12-year-old pupils on Facebook, little did she realise it would come back to haunt her.
The message, in reply to a colleague’s niggle about children at her school, seemed innocuous enough: ‘By the way, [class] 8G1 are just as bad as 8G2. LOL (laugh out loud),’ she joked sympathetically.
Within a few weeks, however, 37-year-old Sonya’s world had been turned upside down. She was suspended from her job at Humberston Comprehensive School after another member of staff reported her, and the comment started a chain of events that culminated in the Information Technology teacher being sacked from the job she loved. More...
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