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Blinda was my sixth form teacher at school and i am sorry to say but what they hell has her PRIVATE life got anything to do with the way that she runs a school! all she is doing is enforcing the rules of the schools. and she has full privacy access on her facebook!

- Charlie, London, 16/09/2009 22:45
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Belinda is a Headmistress, enforcing rules in a school, for the good of the kids in that school. She should be praised for following through with rules that everybody was made aware of. Doesn't this show that the parents and kids expect to just get away with doing the wrong thing? And hacking into/snooping through her personal life reveals that she's a real human being. Shock horror.

- Louise, London, UK, 28/04/2009 14:08
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Well, now....She does look like one of my former teachers. I however always brought the correct equipment to school. I do believe she should recieve a detention for her remarks on Facebook, but then again....She has to be hard up looking like That. Heavens help us all.

- Sunny, USA, 27/04/2009 05:53
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I happen to have met the lady in question and she mearly talks about her breasts because she had just become a mother. She conducts herself with profession integrity when at school as this whole episode has been blown out of proportion. I agree with Liberal and Proud, it is unfortunate that she obviously didnt realise that her privacy settings were not on.

- Anon, uk, 27/04/2009 03:36
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Yes teachers have 'private lives.' However some of them clearly have no qualms about exposing their students - often underage students - to those private lives and that IS a point of concern for many.

Given the proximity and influence they have with the students, teachers must be held to a higher standard of conduct when in public, and the internet is public.

Imagine the outrage from the liberals if a teacher were found to be encouraging the purchase of SUVs, advocating US 2nd Amendment style gun rights, and was posting FACTS refuting the 'global warming' cabal on their Facebook pages...

- Trunk, US, 25/04/2009 15:37
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From the photo, she looks like the typical broad hanging around the pub on a Saturday night...... even down to bad teeth.

- Ben Adamson, New York, NY, 25/04/2009 14:32
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isn't it funny, this new image of your headmistress?

- Beljamine, uk, 25/04/2009 14:26
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I agree with Mark. People should have standards in both their private and most certainly in their professional lives. If teachers aren't mature enough to behave responsibly in all aspects of their lives then I don't want them teaching my children. And why should I excuse people for behaving badly because "everybody does it" - I want the highest possible standards of people in contact with children - that way we might respect teachers again.

- Serena, London UK, 25/04/2009 11:38
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It is typical of this country, moan about youth of today and the lack of parenting and the state of schools they as soon as somebody tries to take any action the press feel the need to rip her character apart. This is just one simple example of our shattered society.

- Broken Britan, London, 25/04/2009 00:44
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I dont think anyone has set her up as she had comments/items from friends & probably had personal photos.

- Sam, Chelsea, 24/04/2009 15:45
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Illiberal and proud - It's entirely possible to be a completely professional and successful person and still have outside interests and attitudes.

Let me let you into a little secret - teachers get drunk, have sex, take drugs, gamble, talk nonsense and generally act a bit silly sometimes outside of work - as does the vast majority of the population. If you don't, I think that says far more about you than it does about everyone else...

- Liberal And Proud, London, UK, 24/04/2009 14:28
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Tom of Watford has a point. If Facebook had been around when I was a kid I'd have had a ball setting up all the teachers I disliked!

- Sarah Bradshaw, Enfield, Middx, 24/04/2009 14:01
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shame her teeth are not up to the same high standard!

- Gary, amersham, 24/04/2009 13:57
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There is nothing wrong with her comments, and lets be honest, these are college students not 10 year olds.

- Nick Nack Paddy Mac, Kilburn, London UK, 24/04/2009 13:25
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I wonder if anyone bothered to check if she actually set this up herself or of one of her pupils did as a prank?

- Tom, Watford (UK), 24/04/2009 12:31
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Do not see the problem here with her behaviour? Apparently instilling discipline and respect in the youth of today is not compatible with discussing your body with friends on a social networking site?

'asylum seekers' - Another one of those frequently misused terms.

- Frank, Home Counties, England., 24/04/2009 11:46
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Hardly an inspiring example and displaying a lack of intelligence by joining Facebook and then making these ridiculous comments on a public site. We do have the right to demand high standards of behaviour from people in positions of responsibility, ie. teachers, policemen and god forbid even politicians.

- Mark, London, 24/04/2009 11:39
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Liberal and Proud - get real. This is not professional behaviour - she comes across as a very silly woman boasting about her breasts - I wouldn't want her teaching my children if she is this immature. What a person does privately reveals who and what they are and what their values are. Tacky behaviour is tacky private or public.

- Illiberal And Proud, London UK, 24/04/2009 11:23
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Everyone is entitled to a life outside of work - she might be a fantastic headteacher and her only mistake it appears to not know how to access the security settings on Facebook to make it private.

- Liberal And Proud, London, UK, 24/04/2009 10:06
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