1,000 join fight for teacher.Byline: By AIDAN McGURRAN PARENTS yesterday called for a teacher, who says she was sacked for recommending a child be excluded from a school trip, to get her job back. More than 1,000 wrote to Education Secretary Alan Johnson in support of Anne Jago, 61. The deputy head with more than 30 years' experience, was dismissed after writing a risk assessment in 2003 about the pupil. Mrs Jago said it was too "dangerous" to take the boy on the adventure day out for 11 year olds from Painters Ash Primary in Gravesend, Kent For the neighborhood in the United States, see . For the town in Australia, see . . It included rock climbing rock climbing Sports medicine An 'extreme sport' in which the participant climbs rock formations, with or without ropes Injury risk Fractures, abrasions, death. See Extreme sports. and canoeing. She claims she was disciplined and later sacked for professional misconduct professional misconduct, n conduct inappropriate to the practice of health care. professional misconduct Behavior by a professional that implies an intentional compromise of ethical standards. , allegedly for sending the risk assessment without her headteacher's approval. But she abandoned an an employment tribunal case because she feared she would have costs of pounds 30,000 if she lost. Former pupil Rob Halpin, 36, said: "She has the support of the entire community." CAPTION(S): FIRED: Anne Jago |
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