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A black teacher children 'doted on' has won an unfair dismissal and race discrimination case against her former primary school after she accused staff of 'blackophobia'.
Andrea Mairs, a teacher at Kings Road Primary School in Stretford, Trafford, for more than 20 years, took her case to an employment tribunal after she was dismissed in 2022 on the grounds of an 'irretrievable breakdown' between her and the school's senior leadership team.
Six senior staff members raised a grievance about her in July 2019, alleging her 'relentless complaining' had 'a negative impact on the whole school, team and individual morale'.
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An employment tribunal heard Ms Mairs cited examples of incidents she perceived as racist, but staff said they felt 'intimidated' and were scared to use the word 'black' around her as a result.
Ms Mairs met a union representative while off sick in October 2019 and told them of a 'history of micro-aggressions as she saw them, against herself, but which she had not raised at the time', the now published judgement reveals. She subsequently lodged her own grievance against the senior leadership team (SLT) and asked for it to be investigated alongside the one made against her.
In November 2019, reveals the judgement, she sent supplementary information to her grievance. In it Ms Mairs said: "The SLT complained about not being able to use the word black. This can only be discrimination about the colour of my skin. They are unable to use the word black, which indicates how uncomfortable they are around their black colleague. This again is racial discrimination and more commonly known as blackophobia."
In one incident she referenced, in February 2019,
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