Teacher accused of pulling out Telford pupils’ hair
Monday 26th September 2011, 2:57PM BST.
A Shropshire schoolteacher was this afternoon facing a disciplinary hearing over allegations that she made inappropriate comments to her pupils.
Roslyn Gillian Holloway, who taught at The Lord Silkin School in Telford between September 2003 and January last year, faces seven allegations of ‘unacceptable professional conduct’.
She is accused of striking a pupil on the forehead with her hand in a school corridor and of pulling out hair of two pupils. She was not at the General Teaching Council for England’s professional conduct committee hearing in Birmingham today.
Holloway is further accused of using offensive language towards a pupil on or around September 23, 2009, during a drama lesson by saying ‘come on ginge’.
She is also accused of referring to two other pupils as ‘Pepsi max’ and ‘black boy’. It is claimed she discussed inappropriate subjects, such as black magic, voodoo and sticking pins in dolls, with pupils.
In an alleged incident around November 9, 2009, it is said Holloway pulled out some of a pupil’s hair in a humanities class, wrapped his hair around the leg of a keyring voodoo doll, told him that if she dropped the doll then his leg would hurt and that if she put the doll in water he would drown.
Holloway is also said to have failed to disclose to the Lord Silkin School she accepted a formal caution for battery on November 26, 2009, in relation to an incident in school on November 10, 2009, thereby breaching her job terms and conditions.
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