AN OPEN LETTER TO JETHRO WILSON, BROTHER OF ELEANOR WILSON, THE BANNED TEACHER
Dear Mr Wilson,
I can understand that you may want to display a family loyalty and support your sister.
However, the issue in question has such grave implications for the safety and well being of pupils, that your family loyalty cannot go unchallenged.
You state that your sister denies have sex with the pupil on the trip back from Geneva.
However your sister apparently continued in a relationship with the pupil for the following seven months, texted him and met him for drinks.
She also apparently tried to cover up the relationship she had with the pupil and misled the Head about the nature of their relationship.
You and she may take a position where you dispute what actually occurred sexually between her and the pupil (exact details are often known only to the couple themselves), but what appears to be admitted by all, is that your sister was in an inappropriate relationship with the pupil.
It is wholly unacceptable and an abuse of trust for a teacher to be anything other than a teacher with a pupil.
Instead of you and your sister defending her position, it would do far more good if you were both candid about what took place, admitted what went wrong and was wrong, and contributed to the debate about how best such inappropriate relationships can be prevented. You can offer advice and suggestions about how schools can be better equipped to deal with such matters, how not to be fobbed off by a deceiving adult, how not to discount a child's testimony and how best to respond when an inappropriate relationship is suspected and how, following exposure, it should be handled, in the best interests of the child.
Yours faithfully,
Archbishop Jonathan Blake
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/brother-defends-teacher-eleanor-wilson-struck-off-for-sex-on-plane-with-pupil-t7b6c90n5
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