The Daily Mail, also known as the Hate Mail or Wail, is often referred to disparagingly by UK members of this site. For very good reasons, as the link will show. Even for the Mail, they plumbed new depths of opportunistic nastiness with this one. For those of you outside the UK, this is why it is so badly thought of.
Comments on the site were disabled for some time due to the vitriol that was poured out by readers.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2010193/Teachers-str...
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Has it been rewritten?
I've seen much worse articles in much more respected newspapers. Perhaps someone rewrote this from a more inflammatory version.
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Erin
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The comments
The comments were taken down, and then reinstated. The inflammatory part was the direct link made by the Hate with the strike. Poor little girl only killed because teachers on strike, etc. The nastimess is that the paper took a truly tragic accident and attempted to use it for union-bashing. If you click on "worst-rated comments" you will find a few who agree with the rag. That is quite amazing, because normally the comments section is as rabid as the article. A recently-linked article about a M2F saw every comment along the lines of "best of luck, hope she'll be happy" given tremendously bad ratings.
Mind you, the Wail was also a fan of "Dr" Gillian McKeith...
The article...
The article itself looks as though it's probably been unchanged:
But the headline has been tidied up from the original.
Shockingly, the Daily Wail is the most-read newspaper website in the UK, and one of the top few in the world.
There are 10 kinds of people in the world - those who understand binary and those who don't...
As the right side of the brain controls the left side of the body, then only left-handers are in their right mind!
That newspaper
A very sad case. But what of the teachers? Do they feel any guilt?
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Picking my words carefully
The whole point of this incident is that it was an accident. Suppose she had been waiting for a doctor's appointment, which was cancelled. So she went to the park. What of the doctor? Does she feel any guilt?
Or perhaps she missed a bus, and was hit by the branch. What of the bus driver? Does he feel any guilt?
Or maybe she wasn't at school because it was the Summer holidays. What of the government, that allows children to have time off school? Do they feel any guilt?
We can't control anyone's actions but our own...
...the natural reaction by the teachers might be guilt...the 'if only I had...' feeling. But they aren't any more responsible for the girl's death than you or I. Shall we blame the school board for creating the conditions that caused a breakdown in communication leading to the strike? Did one of her friends call to her just as the limb fell, thus distracting her? What about the parks department for positioning the bench in that spot. Three feet either way may have meant the difference between life and death?
We could really get absurd, but the point is, as Stephanie notes, is that it was an accident. The saddest part about this apart from the tragedy of the girl's death is that it is a mirror of real life. We are altogether too quick to assign blame and responsibility to others for things out of our control and all too slow in accepting the responsibility for those things that we can control; our own behavior and choices.
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Andrea Lena
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