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Lack of Principles II

After a parent of a student at Moorgate Primary Academy in Tamworth, Staffordshire, England, posted her daughter’s homework on Facebook, Headmaster Jonathan Williams said the post was “defamatory” to the school. Danielle Rowland simply posted the homework sheet with the caption, “For literacy homework, the mistakes are shocking.” Examples of the semi-literate wording on the page include directing students to “interesting one of the words below into the sentences.” and “Although they had are prone to earthquakes, they do not have tremor proof houses.” (RC/London Telegraph) ...The headmaster got that concept wrong too: it was definition, not defamation.