Teachers confiscate pupil’s phone before it records them calling schoolkids ‘kn**head’ and ‘b***end’ in staff room
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TEACHERS confiscated a pupil's phone before it recorded them calling schoolkids "kn**head" and "b***end" in their staff room. Newhouse Academy in Heywood, Greater Manchester, has received a flurry of complaints from worried parents after an audio file of private conversations lasting nearly four hours was leaked.
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It was taken on a mobile phone that had been confiscated from a student and taken in the staff room. In a conversation between some of the staff, one can be heard describing an “immature” student by saying that anyone would “want to rip his head off”, while a female pupil was called a “silly b*tch”.
Another said that “it was that time of the month” for teenage girls deemed particularly difficult. The audio, recorded in October, also includes comments about a black pupil, with one teacher describing him as “the big black lad”. A male member of staff calls one child a “b**end”.
The teachers involved were reported to HR, before disciplinary action was taken and they apologised for their actions, a school spokesman said. It’s understood they are all still working at Newhouse. One concerned parent, whose 14-year-old daughter attends the academy, said: “It’s disgusting.
“I have to leave my child in a place where this has happened. How can I know it is safe?. "Management is aware, and they’ve done nothing about it. “I’m surprised the headteacher has not suspended the teachers, or at least punished them in some way.”.
