You would naturally assume that the welfare of a child at school was more important than politics or protecting the way in which issues are dealt with – especially when protecting those issues involves outright dishonesty. School dinner lady – or EX-school dinner lady to be more precise – Carol Hill has discovered that doing the right thing can not only upset the hierarchy but land you in a peck of bother at the same time. Mrs Hill has lost her appeal against her unfair dismissal.
Mrs Hill was sacked from her job as a dinner lady at Great Tey Primary School in Essex for telling parents, Scott and Claire David, that their daughter Chloe’s experience of being bullied was quite different to the explanation given to them by the school. To recap read here, but basically Chloe had been found by Mrs Hill during lunch break tied to the school fence and being whipped with a rope by two boys while two others stood guard. The little girl’s legs and arms were covered with red welts and the incident was duly reported to her parents as ‘an accident with a skipping rope…’
Not even close would you say…?
Mrs Hill had not been aware of the schools pathetic explanation to Chloe’s parents and innocently enquired with them when she saw them later on about her well being – it was then that Scott and Claire learned the awful truth that their daughter had indeed been subjected not merely to bullying, but a terrible assault. For her trouble Mrs Hill was sacked for telling the truth and exposing what was obviously a disgusting cover up involving Head Teacher Debbie Crabbe and the board of school governors. One of the people on that board was Kathryn Spicer – the mother of one of the little brats who participated in the assault on Chloe. What a proud mum she must be…and it doesn’t take adding two and two together to work out why the David’s were fed such crap by the school. I have had experience in the past with the Mummy Mafia thing that exists in schools – and it does exist -and how much influence these self-important people can wield. They get involved in everything, expect a say in everything and assume a self-righteous entitlement to being more important than anyone else. And for their loyalty and efforts their kids enjoy total immunity from punishment when they get into trouble. Seen it all before…
Fortunately the parents at Great Tey school recognise shite when they see it and have threatened to withdraw their kids from the school if Mrs Hill is not reinstated – the local Education Board has responded with a statement that the school ‘achieves excellent targets’ (there’s that word…targets) and that ‘one isolated incident’ should not be allowed to tarnish it’s reputation.
Yes, protect those all important targets by all means – and let the safety of a child and the truth be damned…
Updated 06/01/11 – Carol Hill wins unfair dismissal appeal after decision overturned.
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