Head who took a sickie on last day of school loses job claim
21.09.07
A story that will make many parents smile. Air fares often rise by hundreds of pounds the day schools break up, so many risk the wrath of their children's school by taking their children out one of two days early.
Yesterday, it was revealed that headteacher called in sick on the last day of term and was then spotted by a colleague at Leeds Bradford Airport queuing for a flight to Tenerife. She lost her claim for unfair dismissal.
Lesley Tidy, head of Thackley primary school in Bradford, phoned her deputy saying she feared she had contracted winter vomiting virus. The following day she missed a staff training day she was supposed to lead - but bumped into a lunchtime supervisor at Leeds Bradford Airport when she was queuing for a flight.
Mrs Tidy skipped the last day before the spring half-term last year, at a time when education authorities were threatening sanctions against parents who took their children out of school in term-time. After an investigation she was first suspended and then sacked by the school governors from the job she held for six years.
The hearing found there was no reason to overturn the governors' decision to sack her.
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