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Teacher sacked over eight-year-old's trans pronouns may have to remortgage house

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IwantToRetire · 16/06/2023 00:40

Nottinghamshire county council has threatened to force a teacher to remortgage her house after she lost a legal dispute over using a pupil’s preferred pronouns.

The council has demanded that the teacher pays its £14,000 legal costs after her application for a judicial review was rejected by a High Court.

The teacher began a dispute with the council after the local authority-run school where she worked decided to facilitate the social transition of a girl who wanted to be treated as a boy two years ago.

The teacher said that she repeatedly raised concerns about the pupil’s welfare and followed the school’s whistleblowing procedure to raise safeguarding concerns. After bringing a claim for judicial review against the school, the teacher was sacked and is now working in a sandwich shop.

The application for a judicial review hearing was rejected on the grounds that she lacked “standing” to challenge safeguarding failures in relation to an individual child at the school, adding that the school had moved the child to a different class and she was no longer the child’s teacher. A High Court judge ordered the teacher to pay the council’s legal costs.

Teacher sacked over eight-year-old's trans pronouns may have to remortgage house (yahoo.com)

(Story from the Telegraph reproduced by Yahoo, and as they have done the Telegraph story about Shaaron Davies loosing work Sharron Davies: ‘I lost the vast majority of work the moment I put my head above the parapet’ (yahoo.com) - The Telegraph is in the process of being sold, so it may have a new owner who is less committed to publishing stories about women's sex based rights being lost, and their ability to keep jobs ... )

Teacher sacked over eight-year-old's trans pronouns may have to remortgage house

Nottinghamshire county council has threatened to force a teacher to remortgage her house after she lost a legal dispute over using a pupil’s preferred pronouns.

https://uk.style.yahoo.com/teacher-sacked-over-eight-olds-202344621.html

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Abhannmor · 16/06/2023 08:15

If push comes to shove she should crowd fund. I'd be up for a bit of digging.

duc748 · 16/06/2023 01:55

I wouldn't be too optimistic about the unions. But we shall see. And of course, isn't 'pastoral care' exactly what teachers should be doing?

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IwantToRetire · 16/06/2023 01:21

The application for a judicial review hearing was rejected on the grounds that she lacked “standing” to challenge safeguarding failures in relation to an individual child at the school

Yes the school treated her really badly and are now enforcing their right to dictate to teachers how they behave by going after her for costs.

But I am staggered that the court decided she had "no standing" to challenge safeguarding failures.

Surely this is a role all teachers should have.

They are often criticsed for not doing this.

Now a court is saying it is appropriate(?) for them to do this.

If they aren't, who is?

On that basis you would think the NUT or whoever would take this up.

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duc748 · 16/06/2023 01:00

I was just reading about that story! I'm not religious, but that woman has been abominably treated. I'd call myself pretty secular, but if this is "the secular orthodoxy", count me out.