Prepare to weep.
Last week a drowning wet London employment Tribunal dismissed a claim for unfair dismissal by a primary school teacher, Charlotte Moore.
It transpired Charlotte had entered her mixed-race classroom to find the kids in full cry, as is their timeless universal wont when temporarily left to themselves.
Calling for quiet Charlotte told them they were “acting like a bunch of chattering monkeys”. One of the kids inexplicably mentioned this to his mother, who promptly lodged a complaint to the police.
Rightly, the police ignored it but not the school who sacked Charlotte for, (brace yourselves) racism.
My god, what a half-way decent lawyer would have made of that nonsense. For a start monkeys are not a race but a separate non-human animal species. Imagine the tribunal’s fainting fits had Charlotte compounded her crime and perhaps added, “I want you all to be quiet as mice”.