Teacher Sacked

[WMDinthekitchen]

Leonora Rustamova has been sacked from Calder High School in West Yorks after she wrote a novel which had some of her pupils as characters. The project was in the interest of getting some unruly boys to read, which apparently they did! The head teacher praised her for the idea and for the first few chapters. However, the novel, entitled, Stop! Don't Read This, became available on the internet and the head suspended Leonora before instituting proceedings. The book is now to be published by Blue Moose Books. The problem appears to be as much the availability on the internet rather than the racy nature of the content. What do Mumsnetters think? Wise to give the pupils a bit of notoriety in the interest of encouraging reading refusers - it could surely have been foreseen that the text would end up on the internet.

www.telegraph.co.uk/wirecopy/8393944/Teacher-sacked-over-racy-novel-to-publish-work

Sounds like she won't miss her teaching career if she's now a successful novelist. Poor judgement both on her part and the part of her managers not to stop what sounds like an innovative literary experiment after the first few chapters. Poor judgement all round if it has racy subject matter and uses real names. Very suspicious about the publicity, to be honest. Things don't just 'appear' on the internet, do they?

and how did it 'get itself' on the internet ?
bad judgement by teacher and using real names - will they get 'royalties' do you think

Surely if it could have been forseen that it would end up on the internet then the head should have forseen this and stopped it rather than praising it. Maybe the head is the one who should eb sacked?