Community | September 27, 2009 | 5 comments

School seeks dinner lady. Humans need not apply

source: http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/libertycentral/2009/sep/24/children-bullying-dinner-...

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This week a dinner lady at a village primary school was sacked for telling a child's parents that she was sorry their daughter had been attacked in the playground at school. Carol Hill had found seven-year-old Chloe David tied up by her wrists and ankles, surrounded by four boys, having been whipped with a skipping rope across her legs. Hill had rescued the child and taken the boys to the headteacher.

That night she bumped into the parents, who were friends of hers, and offered her sympathy. It instantly became clear that the parents had not been told the story by the school. Their daughter had arrived home traumatised and refusing to talk about what happened, with a note saying only that she had been "hurt in a skipping-rope incident". As soon as the school discovered that Hill had told the parents the truth, she was first suspended for several months, and then sacked by the governors for "breaching pupil confidentiality".

This is a new world, in which schools may effectively lie to parents about traumatic events affecting their children, and yet where the only offence committed is by a person who unwittingly breaks that official secrecy. It is no longer the proper role of adults, even those in a tiny village, where everyone knows everyone else, to discuss the behaviour of children. It is for the state to define who may speak and who must be silent.
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5 comments // School seeks dinner lady. Humans need not apply

  • galwayman
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      galwayman  

    • yes indeed even though this happened in england not here in the states makes no difference at all,rather it is indicitive of the new world order and its policies! parents can no longer trust the schools to keep our kids safe! to hell with it people its time to home school our kids whenever possible! This woman deserves a medal!

    • 2 years ago
  • primalscreamer
  • hammywill
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      hammywill  

    • I agree with you Slarabee. My heart goes out to that girl and her family.

      You can see the social differences between the US and the UK quite clearly here. In the US the school would have IMMEDIATELY called the parents, if for no other reason than to avoid being sued.

      These boys had this girl tied up, and were WHIPPING her...how the parents were not notified out of simple human compassion makes me wonder if there IS such a thing as human compassion.

    • 2 years ago
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