Read previous articles on this issue here, here, here and here.
Sacked school dinner lady, Carol Hill, has received what has to be the best news for the New Year she could possibly get. For the past year this wonderful woman has been on a rollercoaster ever since she was sacked for ‘breaching pupil confidence’ when she innocently informed a little girls parents about the true nature of her bruises and trauma. This is where Principal of Great Tey Primary school, Deborah Crabbe, comes into the picture because she stands at the centre of all the trouble. Ms Crabbe told Claire and Scott David in a brief note that their seven year old daughter Chloe had simply been involved in a ‘skipping rope accident’ in the playground. She avoided the actual truth, the truth that Carol Hill revealed to Mr and Mrs David not knowing about the explanation given to them already.
Chloe with her parents and Carol Hill.
Carol Hill told them she had dragged four boys away from Chloe, who they had tied to a fence and were whipping her with a skipping rope. Well, at least Ms Crabbe bothered to mention the skipping rope. When Ms Crabbe discovered Mrs Hill had told the parents the truth she suspended Mrs Hill – when she then heard that Mrs Hill had taken the matter further to the media she got together with the Board of Governors – those people hand picked to do nothing but scratch the Principal’s back – and sacked Mrs Hill from her post as a dinner lady in the school. This posed no great effort, and actually was the convenient thing to do, because a mother of one of the young louts involved in the assault, a Mrs Kathryn Spicer, sat on the Board of Governors (she must be a proud mother indeed…) The school and the hierarchy swiftly closed ranks and Mrs Hill was out. It is plain to see that the egos of some adults matter more than the welfare of young children – and the truth poses nothing but a threat. I am a mother, I know how the ‘playground mafia‘ works which is why I never got involved with those cliquey women who stand around in tight little groups gossiping at the school gate.
Mrs Hill has finally won her claim against unfair dismissal and I sincerely hope she is compensated accordingly and that the money comes right out of the pockets of Deborah Crabbe and her brown-nosing Board of Govs. I am glad she fought those bastards at Great Tey Primary school and did not let them get her down. Once again I say that if my child was ever in trouble at school at the hands of bullies, I would want someone like Carol Hill to be around.
Related posts:
- The Pride of Britain awards presented by the embarrassment of Britain…Carol Vorderman.
- Carol Hill: the dinner lady strikes back!
- A victory for the bullies: sacked dinner lady, Carol Hill, loses her appeal for reinstatement.
- Sacked Dinner Lady Carol Hill: what hope has she got when one of the bullies is the son of a school governor?
- If my child was in danger I would want someone like Carol Hill around.
I cant believe such a one sided article can be published when you have no idea of the other side of the story and how this story divided a lovely village! The governers where bullied unbelievably. I am a mother and would have wanted to be told the truth as Claire did but I would not have gone to the lengths all those people did with the media, it could have been delt with so much better if Carol had handled it differently. Carol Hill was a pillar of the community and a fantastic woman who lost that in most peoples eyes when she lowered herself to those who want to make money out of an unfortunate incident.
Sounds as though the people of that village are willing to kiss arse in order to stay in good with the school and the authorities – that’s village life in England. How dare the ‘lovely village’ be brought into disrepute! I applaud what she did and would have done the same myself. I am the mother of a child who has been bullied and know very well how principals and school governors protect each others backsides. Had supervision been appropriate in that school that incident should not have been allowed to happen. I am also speaking as a playground supervisor myself.
What a ridiculous comment from Victoria! what difference does it make if a village is ‘lovely’ when it has a primary school being run by a lying, deceitful headmistress. That woman LIED to the parents all under the guise of ‘protocols’, we all know how teachers work these days, none of them address bullying properly any more and the little thugs get away with it! why as she protecting those boys, imagine if people tried that trick in the workplace with a female colleague it would go to court but because they are kids anything goes! no doubt the tribunal heard both sides of the story and accepted Mrs Hill was unfairly treated, so was that little girl. Absolutely appalling actions on the part of the school and governors. It takes a lot of guts to be a whistleblower.