“You provide clear, principled leadership,” she told the head teacher of a top Catholic girls’ school in January. “Leaders, governors and pupils commented on the positive effect your vision has had on the school community . 92 per cent of staff said they were proud to be members of the school.” Pupils, she added, “are full of praise for their teachers”. Two terms later, the school is in chaos after teachers walked out amid claims of bullying by the head. More than 1,000 pupils at St Catherine’s Catholic School in Bexley, southeast London, have missed three weeks of lessons after half of the teachers voted to strike over the sacking and suspension of…

Source: The Times December 08, 2019 00:05 UTC