Thursday, September 09, 2004
Just go away
Alison Annan wants her old job back because she claims she didn't resign. The Waikato Times Editorial today is pretty much in line with a previous post by My Right. The point is, if she didn't resign she should have been sacked.
Mrs Annan's lawyer claims she was under intense pressure and in a "very distressed state" when she announced her resignation last month. Whether this argument will be used in tomorrow's Employment Relations Authority hearing has not been confirmed, but it must be noted Mrs Annan is no stranger to intense pressure and has been unrelenting to the point of tyrannical in her belief that her methods of running a secondary school were the right ones.As Russell Brown has said, this smacks of Christine Rankin syndrome. Retain some dignity lady and let it go - there are other ways to get into the Woman's Weekly.
This newspaper has previously stated that by resigning, Mrs Annan took the right, and only, action open to her following the damning report on the school by the New Zealand Qualifications Authority report. Nothing has changed.
The over-riding priority in Mrs Annan's bid for reinstatement is neither the semantic argument nor the emotional circumstances that may have contributed to her decision to resign. It is what is best for the students of Cambridge High School, some of whom have been the victims of an education method exposed as a fraud.
