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Teachers strike causes girls death
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Or at least the Daily Mail like to think so.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2010193/Teachers-strike-Sophie-Howard-13-killed-falling-branch-school-closed.html
What caught my particular attention was this snippet from an angry parent.
Just because this wouldnt have happened if the kid was at school, doesn't mean it is the teachers fault. Could have happened to her anyway on a weekend! This post isnt about the strikes or anything like that, its just another example of the Daily Fail being a bunch of total twats.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2010193/Teachers-strike-Sophie-Howard-13-killed-falling-branch-school-closed.html
Daily Mail wrote:A teenage girl was crushed to death by a falling tree branch as she sat on a park bench yesterday.
The 13-year-old, named locally as Sophie Howard, was out with friends on the day her school was closed because of nationwide industrial action.
What caught my particular attention was this snippet from an angry parent.
Angry parent wrote:One angry parent wrote on Twitter afterwards: 'she should have been safe at school, she was just sat on a bench talking with friends....it could have been my daughter.'
Just because this wouldnt have happened if the kid was at school, doesn't mean it is the teachers fault. Could have happened to her anyway on a weekend! This post isnt about the strikes or anything like that, its just another example of the Daily Fail being a bunch of total twats.
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Thats like saying 'well if that person hadn't planted that tree 100 years ago then the branch would never have fallen'. Its so sad that it happened but i agree, you cant place blame on the teachers strike just cos you dont agree with it
Ridiculous. As much as I disagree with the strikes, it's mad to blame this on the strikes.
Don't the person who decided that would be a nice place for a bench, blame whomever planted that tree there.
Don't blame whomever planted that tree there, blame whomever in that girl's group decided to go sit there.
Or maybe blame her parents for living in that city.
Or maybe blame them that she was even born.
You could go on forever. The fact is, none of these people have anything to do with what happened. That's what "accident" means.
People took the DM seriously?!
I like the sarcasm!
If the tories hadnt cut pensions, the teachers wouldnt have been striking, so therefore the tories killed her
Actually all those who gave birth to them need to take a share of the blame too...
I blame Margaret Thatcher and would like to see it flayed.
As for the Daily Mail what if game, if my aunty had bollocks she'd be me uncle.
Thats the thing, the story wouldnt have been news worthy by the mail if it had happened on any other day.