Death of sex change teacher

[Margaret Pilkington]

I suppose much of it stands or falls on how parents and children are informed...and how good the school is.
If the school is good and your child is setteld don't you think it is much more disruptive to their education to be uprooted and put into another school? To have to get to know new teachers,make new friends?

That said, children are quite resilient and form their own strategies for dealing with issues in their lives.
If this teacher had just disappeared from that school, don't you think that there would still have been talk...rumours, and those rumours get embellished, because when folk don't know what is what, many of them will add bits in to make the gossip just a bit more tantalising.......that is human nature.
It is a very sad thing for all concerned, I think we remember that the people who were closest to Lucy, will still be picking up the pieces of their lives. We should stop all this hypothesising and let them get on with it...hence this will be my last post to this discussion.