ST SAVIOUR'S Junior School in of security guards, master, disciplinarian with a will of iron.
Sharon Walker really the 'big, black and really racist, anti-working prepare the way for more police repression?
MARK TURNBULL.
ADAMS, a parent area - give their views.
OVER the past fortnight, the local and national media have unleashed against ane Toxteth district of Liverpool. immediate targets are the Punior School Sad their pupils Saviour's parents. But it was an excuse tor a more cenera orgy of slander and abuse against the area.
summer's rebellion was a clear warning to the government and local authority that the people Toxteth, especially the youth, were not prepared to accept the burden the present economic crisis.
Incidents that are commonplace in any school -fighting and bullying have been distorted out of all proportion.
Toxteth reopened on 1 March amid a welter of publicity. As pupils and their parents walked the the new headwas sworn in as a the truth about St Saviour's? Is nasty 17-year old, the Miss Big who ran a reign class lies designed to La teacher, and PAUL both from the Toxteth Stories about mafias' and protection lurid imagination of the gutter press.
And treme re emerged February Sunday which explained that blaming the children or parents was pointless Sunday Times pointed out that in the immediate period leading up to the disturbances there was a severe crisis in staffing which was not dealt with by the local authority. summer six experienced teachers left the school and were replaced by staff. In December the school secretary - a person vital to the running of the school - was severely injured and the new depuSharon Walker -victim of racist gutter press ty head also went on sick lea this left the head person already suffering from high blood pressure taking tull-time teaching supervision of school lunches and the headmaster's sibilities as well.
Again, the Sunday Times debunked another myth when it described Sharon Walker as 'bright, highly imaginative 11 year old who is good at games Sharon's mother, who is unemployed and trying to bring up four children ov herselt, tinds it incredi ble that if the charges made by the Daily star were true that she has never been contacted by the school. LIVERPOOL EDUCATION COMMITTEE SE Saviours GiE.
Greet had work tim Stor Soniantan Witte One Fore Claims TORT school violence follows under-use of the cane can't be pursued in this case. Saviour's hit the headlines in 1977 for being a school that used the cane. Rather it is clear that caning caus ed violence in the school Society of posed to Physical ment, toid us: 'in the incident that sparked off the rot in the school seven children had been sub jected to a mass caning.
We have information that this is not the first time groups of children have been caned.
Both teachers and council officials knew tha trouble had been building up in the weeks leading up to the half term but many Girl of 10 CANE led school La wreckers
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