Victory For Teacher Richard Tremelling,

who was sacked, because he allowed two of his students to ride a toboggan, in a two-day ­disciplinary hearing that generated 800 pages of paperwork, Mr Tremelling’s two-year ordeal ended with just a reprimand from the General Teaching Council for Wales, it will stay on his record for 2 years,

Mr Tremelling said after the case that the GCSE syllabus at the time of the incident in February 2009 ‘made it clear students should have the opportunity to evaluate and test existing products’, and it was in that context that he used the sledge at a time when there was about three inches of snow on the ground, he was taken to court for following the rules, but disobeying the headmistress, he was bubbled by another teacher it appears, as he was found guilty of unacceptable professional misconduct after he admitted failing to act on an instruction days earlier from the headmistress, Sue Hollister, not to allow children on to the snowy slopes, children? two strapping 15 olds? well she knows best, Mr Tremelling, has been unable to find teaching employment since, but wants to return to the profession, what a waste of a dedicated teacher, Mr Tremelling’s union representative, the NASUWT’s Colin Adkins, said his dismissal from Cefn Hengoed Community School in Swansea in June 2009 was ‘totally unjustified’ and like ‘using a sledgehammer to crack a nut’, I just hope a more enlighten school takes him on.