More than 11,000 school leaders say that they or their staff have received negative or abusive comments from students’ parents via websites like Facebook and Twitter during the past year.
However, with parents ignoring proper channels of complaint and much of the posting taking place outside of school, it is proving a difficult problem to tackle.
The findings have come from a survey involving almost 1,200 mainstream school leaders carried out by leadership support organisation The Key.
It reveals that 46 per cent of secondary school leaders and 59 per cent of primary school leaders report having seen abusive behaviour from parents on social media directed at them or their staff during the past 12 months. This equates to 11,300 school leaders nationwide.
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