Update. The child's parents in the story below were not informed of the facts and would not have been but for Carol Hill telling her the truth. The school, amazingly even for Essex, is now "reviewing its procedures", a tacit admission that they are inadequate. And still they sack the person who told the truth. This is truly outrageous, and shows how people with power can use it to do as they wish, without reference to morality, fairness, truth, or, in this case Christianity. Ignorance rules. And as Ms Hill will now probably fail a CRB check, for the offence of protecting a child, we have the full circle. Drive out the truth, and anyone who tells it. OK? Telegraph has more details here.
I had the dubious pleasure of working for Essex from 1980 to 1993. There were some very good people in the authority, but a lot more neo-Marxists, including several senior primary inspectors - not all, but most of the most powerful ones - who had a personal vendetta against "the middle class" - by whom they meant the better-educated parents. Anyone who disagreed with them was "visited" and promotion was almost entirely in their control - one headteacher who defied them when appointing a deputy head told his new colleague frankly that it was the last promotion he'd ever get (he was wrong, though!) I thought it was an excellent example of an ignorant, leftist authority until it became eclipsed by New Labour doing the same thing on a national scale.
The latest piece of idiocy and bullying is this from Great Tey primary school, in which a mid-day assistant has been sacked for telling the truth about bullying to a parent. She will probably be able to get the bullies who sacked her for unfair dismissal. A pity no-one can dismiss them. The problem is in the officials. In my time, they bamboozled councillors - "elected members" - keeping them in the dark and getting on with their agenda. I don't know the current crop, but on this evidence they are just as bad. The only consolation is that their nonsense and bullying is public, and will add weight to our growing dissatisfaction with political correctness. Oh, and I should have added - Great Tey is a Church of England school.