Look who’s got herself in trouble and got suspended from her teaching job for writing a short story about “pupils’ sex fantasies, flirting and truancy”? It’s not Natasha Gray. It’s Leonora Rustamova. What makes her short story controversial? Well, she used the real names of her students. The Daily Mail reports on why Leonora is in trouble:
The story – Stop! Don’t Read This! – appeared on a self-publishing website. Although it is claimed to be all invention, it features five genuine teenage pupils at Calder High School in Mytholmroyd, West Yorkshire.
It contains swearwords, has children skipping lessons, refers to a pupil flirting with a teacher and compares two youngsters to ‘gorgeous Mr Gay UK finalists’. The story names several teachers, including real headmaster Stephen Ball, and features pupils missing lessons, stealing phones and setting themselves on fire.
One pupil is described as fantasising and flirting with 39-year-old Miss Rustamova, while she says she would do anything for a smile from another. She writes: ‘It’s getting harder and harder to see them just as kids.’
Later she describes in the novel how the youngsters practise ‘orgasmic moans’, which sound like ‘the soundtrack to teenage g*y p**n’.
Yaiks. What was she thinking? We’re all for encouraging students to read and we’re all for writing fiction and that kind of stuff but did she really have to use the names of her pupils?
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