Disgraced head's new job angers parents
Nov 29 2006
Parents have voiced anger on learning that a headteacher who resigned after forging a signature to give himself a pay rise has gained a new job – as a schools adviser with the city council.
Alastair Sharp was forced to quit as head of Brookvale Primary in Erdington, Birmingham, earlier this month amid mounting pressure from parents.
The head was originally suspended in January and sacked in June for forging the signature of the school’s chair of governors, Mike Statham. But Mr Sharp was re-instated after an appeal and was due to return this month, sparking a campaign against him by parents and complaints by teachers. He resigned three weeks ago.
Mr Sharp has now been found a new role helping support other schools in the city.
Brookvale parent Lesley Westwood, aged 43, said: "It is terrible. I don’t think he should be given the responsibility for advising schools. It looks to me like the authority gave him this job in return for him resigning.
"But we are glad he is not back at this school."
A teacher at Brookvale who did not wish to be named said: "I was shocked. I think most of the staff are shocked at this. The parents are in uproar again.
"After what he has done it is unbelievable – it has to be a laugh."
A spokesman for Birmingham City Council said: "The local authority is utilising Mr Sharp to support a number of initiatives and projects within the Directorate of Children, Young People and Families."
And this one :
Sixteen teachers phone in sick
Nov 30 2006
By Shahid Naqvi, Education Correspondent
A Birmingham primary school was shut yesterday after 16 teachers called in sick – days after its headteacher was suspended for alleged gross misconduct.
Parents and children arriving at Adderley School in Saltley were told to go back home and telephone this morning to see if it would be reopening.
The mass illness follows the suspension of Kevin McCabe following a meeting of the governing body on Monday.
Both the school and the local authority refused to comment on the nature of the allegations. A receptionist at the school said yesterday: "We have had a severe staff sickness. They have had various different illnesses."
Roger King, general secretary of the Birmingham branch of the National Union of Teachers, said the illnesses could be due to "stress" following a period of instability at the school which until last year was in special measures.
"There have been problems in the past with the governing body which seems to have destabilised the school," he said.
Mr King also questioned the course of action taken by the school’s chair of governors, Sajid Akram.
"The normal action in these cases would be to speak to the headteacher about it and if they felt it was very serious take advice from the local authority," he said.
"This chair of governors hasn’t done that. He has taken an unilateral act of his own back and said it is potential gross misconduct but hasn’t specified why."
The Birmingham branch of the NASUWT teaching union said it looked like there were personal issues involved between the chair of governors and the headteacher.
"We are aware of a number of staff being off sick which is why the school was closed," said John Hemmingway, deputy general of the branch."There is an issue of governance which the local authority are working on with the school to address. It sounds a bit personal with the chair of governors."
Mr Akram was not available for comment last night.
A spokesman for Birmingham City Council said: "The governing body of Adderley School has taken the decision to suspend the headteacher pending the outcome of an investigation into a complaint.
"The suspension is a neutral act whilst the investigation is undertaken."
It is understood that a number of parents held a crisis meeting yesterday after hearing about the school closure.
1 comment:
Laban,
The term for it is: race-replacement. It isn't going to stop by itself. It is desired by those who have all the power they need to stop it - they being the new, post-war elite. But they won't stop it. Their common interests are the opposite of the old aristocratic and cultural elite whom they replaced and whose ruling interests were built on family and nation.
The new elite's interests are built on internationalism. In round figures that means anti- Western nation-ism and open markets. How and why people much like you and me are inducted onto this path is a very great question.
But then, look at the difficulty people have even here, on your threads, with the obviously true but disbarred notion that European peoples have a moral right and a natural interest in defending themselves. Anti-racism is a mental virus. Acquired Morality Syndrome, I call it.
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