article_snippet: At the misconduct hearing of the National College for Teaching and Leaderhip in Coventry, Disciplinary panel was told how the school was in a state of disrepair.
article_snippet: Philip Palmer said: 'In my experience going into the school, people were identified and then bullied. '
article_snippet: A lot of people told me that A lot of people wanted to keep A lot of people heads down and stay out of it.
article_snippet: From the start it was clear that staff were terrified of the head and staff did not trust me to begin with. '
article_snippet: I have found the whole time I was there disturbing that someone could do so much damage.
article_snippet: It has been the most difficult two years of my life. '
article_snippet: I did not know anything about the school until about 7.30am the morning before I started.
article_snippet: When I got there the school was in a state of disarray. '
article_snippet: The site manager was absent, the grounds maintenance contract was cancelled and the school was a complete disaster zone to be honest. '
article_snippet: Things like the normal structures you would expect were not there like phone recording systems and the health and safety was disgraceful. '
article_snippet: staff were compromised and scared to say anything about what was happening. 'a filing cabinet was empty and the files were not in the school. '
article_snippet: The teachers were scared and worried about messages.'