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Paris’s lesson is a lesson for us all

Pupil wellbeing
The experience of the UK's first youth crime commissioner is a lesson in the dangers of social media that all our students – and teachers – must learn, says Hilary Moriarty.

The storm which broke about the head of 17-year-old Paris Brown, who was briefly Britain’s first youth crime commissioner earlier this month, may leave a changed world in its wake.

For all of us, young and old, the message was clear: do not confuse social media with Las Vegas. What happens on social media does not stay on social media. Well, actually, it does, and that’s the problem. What it doesn’t do is stay private, the way Vegas might once have promised to hide all your indiscretions within its glamorous walls – though not, of course, in the case of Prince Harry, which rather proves my point.

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