Parents and the principal at a Queensland school involved in a bitter legal battle over online comments have spoken about the incident.
Parents at the Queensland school were upset over their child being disciplined, had “had a few bourbons” or were simply joining in the mob’s pile-on when they made social media comments about the school’s principal that will end up costing them dearly.
Tamborine Mountain State High School principal Tracey Brose was briefly suspended on full pay following a complaint that ended up being unproven.
She was reinstated a couple of months later, after a petition had been started by parents campaigning against her suspension.
But that petition of support was also used to attack the principal.
Several parents made comments on the post that resulted in eight of them being sued for defamation.
The posts were made almost four years ago, but it wasn’t until last Friday that a court ruled two parents had defamed the principal and ordered them to pay damages.
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