Melissa Fyfe and Henrietta Cook's cover story explores the increasingly menacing behaviour of parents toward school staff, and was published in April 2019.

Melissa is then joined in conversation by Good Weekend editor Katrina Strickland, and Karen Terry - an experienced Victorian secondary school principal - to talk about furious Facebook posts, abusive emails and school sit-ins. Discussion begins at 36:05. 

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