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Leonora Rustamova wrote the book to encourage literacy among Year 11 pupils
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Lauren Paxman
Last updated at 2:44 PM on 13th February 2012
A teacher who was controversially sacked after she wrote a racy novel inspired by her students has won a three-year battle to clear her name.
Mum-of-one Leonora Rustamova, 41, known to pupils as Miss Rusty, was sacked after her book – which made sexual references and drew comparisons between teenagers and ‘gorgeous Mr Gay UK finalists’ – was published online and attracted nationwide attention.
She said the book, Stop! Don’t Read This, was written to encourage literacy among Year 11 pupils – but the head and governors of Calder High School in Mytholmroyd, West Yorkshire, were less than impressed and fired the teacher in 2009.
Vindicated: Leonora Rustanmova was controversially sacked after she wrote a racy novel inspired by her students
Miss Rusty, who had been at the school for 11 years, is now celebrating after being cleared by of any misdemeanours by the General Teaching Council (GTC) – which she hopes will help her win an industrial tribunal.
She said: ‘It has been an awful time. I got the letter from the General Teaching Council on Saturday and it took 15 minutes to summon up the courage to open the envelope.
‘The council said it had re-examined all the facts in the case and decided there was no case to answer, so they are taking it no further.
Inspirational: Mrs Rustamova’s sacking from Calder High School, near Hebden Bridge, prompted demonstrations by pupils and a campaign by parents to have her reinstated
SEX, DRUGS AND SCHOOLBOOKS: THE RACY PLOT OF MISS RUSTY’S NOVEL
Stop! Don’t Read This contains many sexual references and makes light of the pupils’ bad behaviour.
One pupil is described as flirting with Miss Rusty, while she says she would do anything for a smile from another.
Miss Rusty’s character says: ‘It’s getting harder and harder to see them just as kids.’
Two characters, who are sunbathing topless, are described as ‘looking like gorgeous Mr Gay UK finalists in an area of Britain where there is some pretty stiff competition’.
Later in the novel she describes how pupils practise ‘orgasmic moans’ to entertain themselves. These are described as sounding like ‘the soundtrack to teenage gay porn’.
The book ends with the boys being labelled heroes after revealing a drugs store beneath the school and reporting it to police – but not before a case of cocaine goes missing.
Miss Rusty says: ‘I suppose the boys had earned a hell of a ritzy summer holiday.’
‘It had been referred to them as a matter of course when I was sacked, supposedly for a serious disciplinary breach.
‘This
has been hanging over me for three years and stopped me doing the job I
loved. I never wanted to do anything else but teach.
‘I loved every minute of my career, working with young people.
‘It has been a dreadful time but now I feel so relieved and there have been great celebrations in the Rustamova household all weekend.
‘I still love teaching and who knows, I may well go back. But I have concerns over the problems in state schools, where there is too much power invested in the head and the governors.
‘This thing has set me on a new course and I have two great jobs, working with adult education students in Leeds and with students at the University of Huddersfield.
‘Now I hope that the Teaching Council ruling will help me in my fight with the Employment Tribunal.
‘I won an appeal against their findings and I hope when the next hearing comes along they will consider the Teaching Council verdict.’
Governors accused Miss Rustamova – who was on a salary of £34,000 – of bringing the school into disrepute, undermining its authority and demeaning pupils and parents.
An appeal against her dismissal was rejected, despite considerable support from colleagues, pupils and parents.
As a result of her ordeal, Miss Rustamova’s marriage collapsed.
She claimed the book, which was peppered with expletives, was an innovative way of getting her pupils interested in their work.
It named several teachers and featured five year 11 pupils – all real students and referred to as Miss Rusty’s favourites.
The book was finally published in paperback last summer by Bluemoose Books, based in Hebden Bridge, West Yorkshire.
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Good news. I went to Calder High decades ago and I wish she was head at the time!
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For goodness sake, why couldn`t she have directed her literary skills into creating a text book of some sort for her pupils.
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What a good looking woman.
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Just another excuse for teacher-bashing if you ask me. The woman has been exonerated by the GTC was genuinely trying to inspire her pupils however strange this may seem to those outside the profession. No doubt she has been through hell over the last 3 years what exactly has the school achieved apart from the loss of a very good teacher by all accounts, notoriety. This doesn’t make sense.
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She probably got them more interested in learning than a lot of teachers can manage. Good luck to her.
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Hey.. for all you red-arrowing me, the article did not say ‘year 11’ when it first came online
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I’m very happy for her. It also strikes me as odd that people in her position have to bear the cost of being cast into limbo, if they weren’t placed on ‘gardening leave’. As for an apology, they seem rarer than a hen’s tooth.
For all the yip-yap about innovation, this teacher received short shrift for her troubles. The students she was working with were disaffected and suspicious of the soft middle class curriculum put before them. I wonder if they have had any luck after their GCSEs, and I’m sure their comments about what happened to their English teacher would be priceless.
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Credit it to her. Somethimes you have to be a little different to get year 11 pupils’ attention and interest and it seems she did just that, albeit by possibly ‘near to the knuckle’ means!
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Whatever! But she’s got a gorgeous smile!!
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Innovation is great. This was inappropriate. Her position as a teacher is undermined by trying to be this close to the pupils.
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