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Should I have to find out that the Headteacher of my sons' school has resigned...

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temporarilyjerry · 03/10/2013 21:28

on Wikipedia?

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bsc · 03/10/2013 21:35

You do know that anyone can edit wikipedia?

It may be a schoolboy/girl prank!

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temporarilyjerry · 04/10/2013 05:45

But it would be easy to deny the rumours on the school website.

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Jaynebxl · 04/10/2013 05:55

If it is true and not a prank then the school will have to announce it soon as they will be recruiting a new one. Maybe wiki just beat them to it and the school powers that be are working on how to word the announcement. Or maybe it isn't true.

LemonLies · 04/10/2013 13:14

Are the school aware there are rumours? I once looked up my old school on wikipedia and there were some outlandish things on it about the school that weren't true. (Just silly things.) I assumed it was the girls messing around. Probably the sort of thing I'd have done myself if Wikipedia had existed when I was at school. The comments were removed after a while.

Department · 04/10/2013 13:38

Why were you looking them up on Wikipedia? It doesn't seem likely that many people do that very often, so maybe the school don't know it's there.

WhereIsBethanyBear · 04/10/2013 13:40

bizarre

Unexpected · 04/10/2013 15:07

Have you informed the school?

Ladymuck · 04/10/2013 16:54

"But it would be easy to deny the rumours on the school website."

Um, no headteacher worth their salt would want "Contrary to wild rumours on random internet sites, the headmaster has not resigned" on their school's website.

Wouldn't surprised me if it was put there deliberately by a teacher to demonstrate that no-one should rely on wikipedia as a reliable research source for homework.

creamteas · 04/10/2013 18:12

Wouldn't surprised me if it was put there deliberately by a teacher to demonstrate that no-one should rely on wikipedia as a reliable research source for homework

I make random wikipedia changes every year with my new undergraduates. Things that if you thought about it a bit you would know where rubbish.

Sometimes they are there for years before anyone deletes them.

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temporarilyjerry · 04/10/2013 18:36

It's true. We received a letter today announcing the news.

I looked it up on wiki as son said there were rumours. Googling "head's name resigned" led me to wiki.

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Ladymuck · 04/10/2013 18:50

The problem, especially for heads resigning is that the new school know that they've appointed him before the current school know he's resigned, so if someone from the new school leaks the news there isn't much that the current school can do other than confirm it as soon as possible (which it looks as if they have done).

It is extremely excruciating for governors at the current school, if the new school talks about their new head, and he hasn't actually officially tendered his resignation yet.

titchy · 04/10/2013 19:45

The new school wouldn't necessarily know before the current one - clearly they'll know they'd made the offer, but that's not the same as the offer being accepted!

Ladymuck · 04/10/2013 20:04

That's a fairly theoretical possibility. It is far more common for the leak to come from the new school. There was a whole rumpus on here a year ago when the Pates parents found out from Mumsnet that their head was heading to Reigate Grammar, as Reigate announced (their head has announced his retirement and new parents were concerned) and Pates hadn't bargained on the news leaking on the internet...

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