A senior teacher at a top private school rocked by teenage suicides lost her job after telling a pupil in front of classmates ‘we were worried you were going to die’, a tribunal heard.
Katie O’Hara, head of English at £36,000-a-year Windermere School, ignored advice to avoid teaching texts featuring suicide — and even upset another pupil by instructing her class to rip a sensitive page out of a book mid-lesson.
This came just weeks after two 14 year old students took their own lives at the end of 2019 — leaving the school community concerned about a possible ‘cluster’ of suicides kicking off.
