I have personally experienced the annoyance of having the school interfering in domains where they really shouldn't have. One of my friends who had recently left the school to do A levels elsewhere posted a message on Facebook asking us what we thought of our school. We expressed our opinions, my post related to the considerable lack of freedom we had compared to other schools, and the general uselessness of their information evening (In my post I did not give names, and my points were valid). Turns out the person who's wall we were writing on was friends with a current teacher at the school, she did not think about the possible implication of this and e-mailed a screen shot to the head of 6th form (basically the head of A-level matters). Now what happened to us afterwards?
The head of 6th form got very annoyed, and called us individually into his office to moan/intimidate/make us wish we never chose to ream at this school for non-compulsory education, all to varying. It just turns out that in my post I went into more detail, and he was most angry at me. Amongst other things he said he could sue me, and that I would not get a university reference from him (an important thing). He set out a list of demands:
-To remove the post
-Write an apology note to this guy only (even though the post could have annoyed several other people.
-He would phone my parents and tell them just how bad I was.
What did I do? Unlike him I did not throw a tantrum and carefully calculated how to get back at the bastard. Events unravelled like so:
-Due to the controversial nature of this incident word spread fast and a lot of students despised him.
-I informed my parents (to ensure he didn't preach his one-sided shit to them), they sided with me. They rang the headmaster and kindly asked him that he ask one of his senior staff members to stop being such a cock. He complied.
In short I won and he lost badly. All I did was remove the post, and now he is forever hated by the student community.
