article_snippet.sent: Margaret Gretton has been banned from classrooms for labelling an Asian job applicant 'Taliban' and calling special needs pupils 'roadkill' A primary school headteacher has been banned from classrooms for labelling an Asian job applicant 'Taliban' after referring to special needs pupils as 'roadkill'.
article_snippet.sent: A disciplinary panel of the National College for Teaching and Leadership in Coventry ruled Margaret Grettonexhibited clear intolerance on the grounds of race, as well as disability'.
article_snippet.sent: A disciplinary panel of the National College for Teaching and Leadership in Coventry heard that Margaret Gretton had mocked special needs students by referring to A disciplinary panel of the National College for Teaching and Leadership in Coventry as 'cuckoo' and said Margaret Gretton didn't want to encourage children 'like that' to come to Burton Joyce Primary School in Nottingham.
article_snippet.sent: Margaret Gretton even displayed a Golly magnet in Margaret Gretton office and made 'monkey noises' on one occasion when talking about black people.
article_snippet.sent: A disciplinary panel of the National College for Teaching and Leadership in Coventry concluded Margaret Grettondisplayed racist attitudes and behaviour in that - on one or more occasions you inappropriately commented in relation to a photograph of a male Asian job applicant.'
article_snippet.sent: A disciplinary panel of the National College for Teaching and Leadership in Coventry said Margaret Gretton comments included 'would you hire me…I'm in the Taliban', or words to that effect, referring to the man as 'Mohammed', or words to that effect, and referring to 'bombs and blowing up Burton Joyce Primary School in Nottingham', or words to that effect, in an Asian accent.
article_snippet.sent: A teacher at Burton Joyce Primary School in Nottingham, named only as Staff Member E, told A disciplinary panel of the National College for Teaching and Leadership in Coventry that Margaret Gretton said to Margaret Gretton, unprompted: 'Do you like black men?'
article_snippet.sent: A teacher at the school, named only as Staff Member E said Margaret Gretton was 'taken aback' by the question, but added that the question did not bother Margaret Gretton, and Margaret Gretton mother's partner was black and from Jamaica.
article_snippet.sent: Margaret Gretton told A disciplinary panel of the National College for Teaching and Leadership in Coventry that Margaret Gretton then 'burst out laughing and said words to the effect of 'does Margaret Gretton have big lips?...does Margaret Gretton look like a monkey?' and then went on to make monkey noises.'
article_snippet.sent: The headteacher denied making the comments, but A disciplinary panel of the National College for Teaching and Leadership in Coventry said it was 'satisfied on the balance of probabilities that the comments, or words similar to them, were made by Margaret Gretton. '
article_snippet.sent: A disciplinary panel of the National College for Teaching and Leadership in Coventry also found that Margaret Gretton 'expressed inappropriate and discriminatory attitudes towards SEN [Special Educational Needs] pupils in the presence of school staff.'
article_snippet.sent: A disciplinary panel of the National College for Teaching and Leadership in Coventry said 'exhibited clear intolerance on the grounds of race, as well as disability' while head of Burton Joyce Primary School in Nottingham (pictured) A disciplinary panel of the National College for Teaching and Leadership in Coventry said Margaret Gretton had used the word 'cuckoo' or words to that affect and said 'A disciplinary panel of the National College for Teaching and Leadership in Coventry don't want to encourage children like that to come here.'
article_snippet.sent: Margaret Gretton was also found to have 'deliberately tried to upset' a special needs pupil, 'frightened a special needs pupil', and 'tried to make a special needs pupil cry.'
article_snippet.sent: Margaret Gretton told A disciplinary panel of the National College for Teaching and Leadership in Coventry that 'Margaret Gretton said 'It's like something from One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest' and said 'cuckoo, cuckoo' whilst twirling Margaret Gretton finger at the side of Margaret Gretton head.'
article_snippet.sent: A Special Education Needs co-ordinator, who also gave evidence to A disciplinary panel of the National College for Teaching and Leadership in Coventry, said that during a discussion in 2010 about creating a disabled parking space at the school car park Margaret Gretton mentioned that Margaret Gretton parking space was the obvious place to put Ms Gretton's parking space.
article_snippet.sent: However Margaret Gretton said that Margaret Gretton said: 'We don't want to encourage people like that here.'
article_snippet.sent: Margaret Gretton said: 'This is a case where the teacher has exhibited clear intolerance on the grounds of race, as well as disability.'
highlights_snippet.sent: Margaret Gretton talked of 'bombs and blowing up Burton Joyce Primary School in Nottingham in an Asian accent .
  
highlights_snippet.sent: Disciplinary panel concluded Margaret Gretton 'exhibited clear intolerance on the grounds of race, as well as disability' 