Description of a teacher fired from our school

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Francis

This requires considerable jogging of the memory after all the chaos and nonsense currently consuming the school....

Really busy now with all the chaos the school has created. I did more schoolwork in my 6 weeks in Italy than anything the administration did....

Here's what I can remember off the cuff about Francis's last year, and how there was no choice but to get rid of him...

I was the IB2 homeroom teacher directly across the hall from Francis during his final year, and he would constantly charge into my room and complain about how other teachers were undermining him or trying to destroy his life. I don't know if you remember Catherine, who had replaced Ernie (!) as coordinator, but their mutual loathing was considerable. Cathy is married to the Junior teacher Nigel, who was about my height and half the weight, and who would walk around in sandals and with a scruffy beard that made it look like he had just climbed out of a tree he was using to protest road building.

At the time you'll remember we all shared one office- check out my spaces to see my classroom now. Nigel had overheard Francis speaking quite openly to one of the Chinese teachers about the 'Andalusian bitch' when Nigel went NUTS and lunged at him in the hallway. The report I received from two teachers was how they were conducting a class when all of a sudden they heard Francis crying out "Nigel attacked me! Nigel ATTACKED me! He attacked ME! NIGEL attacked me! etc."

This was probably during your time, but the epilogue came last year when I was invigilating an exam and I went to ask Francis for scrap paper for the students. On the back of one he gave me was...