Comments on: Sacked for exposing the bullies:

By: Stephen Linley-Shaw

Stephen Linley-Shaw — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 09:49:32 +0000

Unfortunately the dust seems to have settled on this dreadful abuse of power.
I cannot find out how Mrs Hill is faring or if she is able to fight for justice. Is there a pressure group? I sincerely hope so…

The ‘socialists’ have taken on 600,000 new employees most of whome are not needed, badly managed or useless. They are also difficult to sack and always get a pension.

As the UK becomes poorer I hope that the government will shrivel up and we will, once again, become self reliant – just like the marvellous Mrs Hill. It’s time for normal people to become more assertive and support each other.

All bullies are weak, self serving and cowardly – and that includes the school staff, the education authority, the lawyers and the lawmakers.

By: Ron

Ron — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 10:19:59 +0000

Many schools and teachers ignore bullying.It took a new headteacher at my public school 5 years to stamp out institutional bullying. I was lucky the worst had gone!

By: Gaby

Gaby — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 15:24:52 +0000

If this incident had happened to a grown-up the police may well have been brought in and charges of assault considered. Yet, one of the institutions that is supposed to safeguard the most vulnerable in our society seems to have tried to cover up the seriousness of an incident instead of giving a full and honest account to the parents – who after all have ultimate responsibility for their child. The one person who was open and caring has been fired presumably for causing the school to lose face. What does this say about our school system? I am a home educator who is constantly faced with the choice of sending my child to school or continuing the task myself. When things like this occur, is it any surprise that a growing minority are deciding not to delegate the responsibility of looking after and educating their children to institutions which do not seem to be fully accountable to us as parents.

By: Jeremy

Jeremy — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 22:00:13 +0000

The question is, who is the school protecting? the pupil? or itself? A breach of confidentiality would occur if the dinner lady had discussed the incident with a third party, however, she discussed the abuse with the parents, this is a duty of care, not a breach of confidentiality. The school has chosen to interpret her behaviour as a breach of confidentiality as an excuse for the fact that she exposed their attempt to cover up the incident. Shameful. The head teacher should be dismissed.

By: JamesWalker

JamesWalker — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 17:22:28 +0000

it is disgusting that they tried to hide the incident under the school ‘accident and first aid procedures’. It sounds like the wrong one has been sacked to me ! Having also been the victim of bullying and the school trying to hide the issue rather than dealing with it I can see that the schools have not learnt.

By: Meg Rivers

Meg Rivers — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 08:26:01 +0000

I’ve never commented here before but want to strongly support the Dinner lady who told the parents what happened to their child. My daughter is grown up now but was badly bullied at school which affected both her educationa nd her mental well-being for many years – I was told NOTHING by the school and of course she was too afraid of what the ofther children would do to her to tell me about it.

Bullying really MUST be taken more seriously and dealt with by schools.