Top teacher admits to education reference gaffe

One of Norfolk's most respected PE teachers has confessed to using a reference from a disgraced politician to obtain his job at a top primary school.

Despite clear instructions from the local education authority that anyone who had ever had any form of commendation from the notorious Ruth Kelly should not be seen as fit to teach children in the area, the teacher blatantly used a letter with Kelly's named signed at the bottom to help him get his post.

There was confusion as to how this can have happened as it is widely known that many children have been harmed through actions of the sinister Kelly who, while never formally charged, has been warned on many occasions by those involved with education that her actions are leading to ruined lives.

However, although it appears that Kelly is on a register of politicians deemed unfit by Britain's respected tabloids to run anything — the so-called "List 69" — incredibly she is not legally banned from doing so and is rumoured to have been protected by others in high places.

One education official admitted: "She was only cautioned for her appalling record, but we thought that that would be enough to stop anyone ever daring to use her as a reference. Apparently not."

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