[Jamie89]

Originally Posted by Ammi

...(I think..)..he's been 'punished', did he get sacked..?...anyways, that's the decision of an employer with things like this...I mean, how long..4yrs/ 8 yrs/ 16 yrs, is there a time limit type thing if it's something he doesn't believe now and has re-assessed his thoughts...and yeah, the YouTube comments thing...?...well, negativity in general ca be quite 'infectious' sadly and people can say hateful things with a 'trend' also...negativity spreads and flows and flourishes etc, that's sadly how it works...


..just one thing that I will say Jamie...in my job etc and my own mind-set I guess you could say..?...we have many young people..(and older people also..)...who apply for positions of trust at the school and their DBS checks are sometimes not clear of all 'wrong-doings' in the past and some fairly bad compared to this but that wouldn't prevent us from employing someone..we would discuss it all with them obviously and have to feel very reassured and confident in our decision but we're a nurturing environment of 'second chances' as well because if those are never given, how can anyone ever feel that they can prove themselves and move forward from any past to become a better person...so more likely to stay that person of 4yrs ago and what would the value of that be...

I do believe in second chances I just think there should be a punishment first and I don't think he has been sacked (although I suppose that would go against the second chances thing ).... and the timeframe thing, I don't know, what your saying makes total sense and is logical and everything and I don't really have an answer for it, it just makes me really angry stuff like this and it's hard to look at comments like that and not take it personally/react emotionally, because even though he said them 4 years ago, I'm only seeing them now, and it's upsetting to see people say stuff like that. And I think it's especially because of coming out with an apology that strikes me as insincere, and seems constructed more to save his career/reputation, rather than because he's actually sorry to the people he spoke about. If he'd have given a spoken apology maybe it would be better to judge how he feels now. Maybe there's a reason he didn't want to give a spoken apology.