What a Pillock

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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13...ven-pupils.html

 

I'll show those pesky kids

 

A draconian ‘super head’ has been sacked just two days into his new job after suspending seven pupils for minor offences.

Craig Tunstall, who earns more than the Prime Minister and is one of Britain’s highest-paid head teachers, lasted less than 48 hours in his role as executive head of a failing primary school.

Within hours of joining, Mr Tunstall, who was thought to have been receiving a pay package of close to £200,000, had excluded seven pupils as young as five.

Their offences included wearing the wrong coat in the playground, refusing to finish their school lunch and failing to stand in line.

One of the suspended pupils was a five-year-old boy with special needs.

His manner was so authoritarian that staff and children alike said he created a ‘climate of fear’.

And he provoked outrage by demanding that all the pupils walked with their hands behind their backs.

Council bosses, who had parachuted Mr Tunstall into Oval Primary in Croydon after ousting the previous head, were forced to take immediate action to remove him following a barrage of complaints.

The school was put into special measures last month after a disastrous Ofsted report.

Its local council, Croydon, on the recommendation of the Department for Education, arranged for it to be taken over by a body that runs two well-performing schools in South London.

Mr Tunstall, as executive head of the federation, was brought in to turn Oval Primary around.

 

The bloated council where six bosses earn more than the Prime Minister

It is believed the appointment would have boosted his annual pay package to close to £200,000.

In a manoeuvre that shocked the school, he arrived on Thursday, February 17, the morning after the former head teacher, Ruth Johnston, quit.

But his tenure was shortlived. The council sacked him before the end of the day on Friday.

One of the children suspended by Mr Tunstall was Callum Simms.

The five-year-old, who has special needs, was reprimanded for not lining up quickly enough when asked to by one of his teachers.

His outraged mother, Nikki Simms, said: ‘When I heard from other parents that a number of other kids had been excluded, I did worry for Callum because he has behavioural problems.

 

Authoritarian: Craig Tunstall, who earns more than the Prime Minister and is one of Britain's highest-paid head teachers, was parachuted in to Oval Primary School, Croydon, after it went into 'special measures'

‘But he didn’t have a fight or cause a lot of trouble.

‘He’s just a little boy with learning difficulties who didn’t line up in the playground.

‘That he was excluded for something so stupid is unbelievable.’

Another distraught mother, Sarah Ellacott, said her daughter Rachael, seven, came home from school saying pupils had been told to walk with their hands behind their backs as if ‘in prison’.

Mrs Ellacott, 27, said: ‘Children were going to school afraid to do anything in case they got suspended. That’s not the way to make children behave.’

Mr Tunstall, who has no children of his own, recently split from his wife Carol, 37, who works for an animal sanctuary.

Until recently he lived in a £500,000 semi-detached red-brick three bedroom house in a residential area in Bromley, Kent – a far cry from the deprived area of Croydon where Oval Primary is located.

 

TODAY'S POLL

 

Should 'super head' Craig Tunstall have been sacked so soon into his new role?

 

Mr Tunstall remains the executive head of the Gypsy Hill Federation, which runs two successful primary schools in Lambeth, South London – Kingswood Primary and Elmwood Primary.

They have both received outstanding Ofsted reports.

It is Government policy to link failing schools with successful schools in the area. Croydon council leader Mike Fisher yesterday admitted the appointment was a mistake.

He said: ‘We apologise for any sort of upset we have caused the parents and that the organisation brought in turned out to be the wrong one – we made a mistake.’

A council spokesman said: ‘We have a strong record of setting up partnerships with schools and have done so successfully in the past.

‘On this occasion it became clear the arrangement would not work and the authority took swift action to resolve it.’

Mr Tunstall, speaking through a friend, refused to comment.

The council is set to announce the appointment of a new head teacher on Monday who is believed to be from a local academy.

Mr Tunstall was revealed to be the eighth highest-paid head in London, earning a salary of £137,991, and a total package of £151,835, last year. The Prime Minister is paid £142,500.

Primary school head teachers typically earn around £55,000.

Education Secretary Michael Gove plans to cap head teachers’ pay. It is currently being reviewed by the School Teachers Review Body, which will report in March.

 

 

 

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£200k for a primary school is absurd.

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Mr Tunstall, speaking through a friend, refused to comment.

 

 

Sounds like a charming chap though. Once upon a time, childhood was about enjoying yourself.

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Bet he wears Vulva

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Our head teacher was a bit of a prick at school. One of these new, young, super heads. Sent a load of kids home every week for wearing trainers, short ties, short skirts, missing blazers etc.

 

Also played all the kids songs on his guitar at the christmas show every year

 

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Bet he wears Vulva

 

as close as he'll get to any tbf

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Is that Tim Sherwood? Or has Donna McPhail cut her hair blindfolded?

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Bet he wears Vulva

 

Never mind that, how small is he ffs?